Deadlock breaks on plans for Mackenzie Country intensive dairying

Deadlock breaks on plans for Mackenzie Country intensive dairying
By Pattrick Smellie May 13 (BusinessDesk) - Key environmental groups have signed up to a proposal which would allow both ecological restoration and intensive dairying to occur in the Mackenzie Country. The newly unveiled Mackenzie Agreement is the product of three years' consensus-building led by Guy Salmon, a close adviser to Cabinet Minister Nick Smith and an architect of the collaborative process behind the Land and Water Forum. While welcomed by the government, Labour's conservation spokesperson Ruth Dyson slammed it for favouring devel...