Centralise control or Relocalise
Wyatt Creech’s recommendations to government and Rodney Hide of replacing Environment Canterbury with a commission, is another move to centralise control, in the same vein as the Auckland Super City move, which has lost public support (70% of Aucklanders are ready to throw it out).
In my opinion, these moves are the flip side of the same coin, and are the two responses to an uncertain future.
One is based on a belief that in order to maintain something like the status quo and the continued raping of the country’s resources for profit by companies such as Open Country Cheese, greater central control is needed.
The other response say that status quo has got us to this place where we are fighting over resources. That a transition from globalisation to relocalisation is what is needed.
http://www.stuff.co.nz/the-press/news/3351794/Environment-Canterbury-faces-the-axe