February 2020

Northland Regional Council to take "back seat" on GMO appeal

https://www.nrc.govt.nz/news/2020/january/council-to-take-back-seat-on-gmo-appeal-unlikely-to-call-evidence/

notice how NRC Clr Martin Robinson has ethically stood aside, given his conflict of interest (Martin is both a Regional councillor for Northern Coastal Ward and spokesperson GE Free Northland) but how former NRC Chairman Bill Shepherd did NOT stand aside last year when he was Chair of NRC when it came to the vote on GE/GMO issue... despite Mr. Shepherds conflict of interest as a Federated Farmers of NZ man