Tried that. Seriously...you should see the reams of paperwork we put together....reams of the stuff. And by God…

I strongly and passionately disagree with this. In my personal experience, an ordinary citizen, with command of the full facts and able to mount a cogent and comprehensive arguement, can effect change.

Oh my goodness! Its already on the Cheif Executive Initiated Reassessment List!

And has been for years. As well as the two substances I linked to earlier,…

Instead of hinting darkly, why not just state what it is, post a few links to the relevant documentation, and then it might be possible to have an informed…

Nicely said, Izogi.

Back in 2010 I tried to find out on what basis the Food Safety Authority approved for use a certain agrichemical and how it…

Just being able to provide good references is helpful, though. Anecdote provides nothing verifiable which can actually be talked about in a useful way, and so trying to make strong arguments with just anecdote is really only going to build…

This was 2010. By 2012, and after many hours spent researching, reading, talking on the phone and…

I'll put in a plug for the countries public libraries here, and if you want to read it checking through that route.

I'll read the book...maybe when it lands in the discount bin. No disrespect here...just pecuniary disadvantage. So...I listened to Dave's interview on Natrad...to get a feel of what the book is about. My critique above is based on that interview.

If there is…

Dave Hansford may be correct and 1080 is the only hope for New Zealand's flora and fauna.

Nothing else, no other pest control measure, could possible measure up to the truly awesomeness of sodium flouroacetate…

Pardon Michael? Which blog? Do you have any particular point to make?

They've also revealed that he was busted back in 2004 for operating a hydroponic setup with 450 plants.

The plants were inside shipping containers equipped with extraction fans,…

It amazes me that people feel themselves able to decide on matters of guilt and sentencing on the basis of a few hundred words of (often biased and sensationalised) summary in a newspaper when the actual…

As I read the Blackmail description in the Crimes Act (237, 238), it doesn't seem to cover the act of actually carrying out the threat. Blackmail in NZ seems to be specifically about making the threat in order to obtain an act or a benefit…

Don’t be stupid…
Its not like he's Maori or anything…..
/sarc

Put in rental accommodation, and paid NZ Superannuation, after you've confiscated their savings.

I don’t know what good filling the jails does. Maybe there should be some sort of sentence of perpetual bankruptcy for greed based cases like this.

Which seems light, given the gravity of the offence and the estimated $37m cost to the country. It makes you wonder what you'd have to do to receive the maximum 14 years the offence carries?

Phil Taylor has an in-depth review of the case in the Herald.

Crown prosecutor Christine Gordon, QC,…

It'd be interesting to know how frequently Police are using it.

Back in 2012 National with Act and Dunne changed the law.
Dominion post ran this at the time also.

As I can see, in the Search and Surveillance Act, all of Part 4 seems to be about search…

What if you just wanted to look at a specific group of people, who'd be first?

If I were running the investigation I'd start with those people....then search their email and phone records....contact all their contacts....

this seems to meet that description, to be fair

Yes and no. I don’t think there’s so much in the way of high level personal agendas and ulterior motives as often seems to happen in politics.

The 1080 argument is largely a fight directly about stuff people strongly believe, and as Rosemary said it’s…

Yet this old machine needs an update (according to the three messages that popped up!) and I fear loading more onto the hard drive just might push it over the edge. (If left on for more than half an hour...the cooling fan makes more noise than the washing machine…

http://www.veoh.com/watch/v18706041g8fS9nAj

Sleeping Dogs – pull up a couch...

And the'type' of person you are depends on what side you are on.

And, quite often, you're forced into choosing a side.

If you are the person who looks at the evidence about a substance, looks at the reasons given for distributing that substance in…

Yes, probably. Though from what I've seen of the 1080 debate in the last few years, and some of the people involved, I'm reluctant to draw conclusions about people based solely on how they're presented in a media…

We now know…

Trust

Anybody

A Golden Bay couple already reeling after a police raid last March were shocked to learn of an earlier secret search of their home.

Rolf and Ute Kleine, who run teahouse and bakery Takaka Infusion, received an email last week from Detective Senior Sergeant Aaron Pascoe that…

Stolen? Reverse-engineered? Fraudulently purchased?

It’ll be interesting to learn about where the raw 1080 was sourced.

The name got our attention. A nice touch of rodenticidal whimsy.

Before the advent of bait stations, we used the good old length of drainflo pipe, with the bait held in the middle by number eight wire.

It still uses poison, and the rats…

These dehydrate the rat and it wanders off to die somewhere else. There's no reason why you couldn't set…

I hate the buggers.

We have chooks. Chooks attract rats. Some years in huge numbers. (Like the year the neighbour got those plug in pest deterrers. )

We have used various methods to reduce…

Maybe think twice about that Rosemary. I mentioned above (without referring to the brand) that my neighbour has one of those new-fangled Good Nature possum traps. Both traps are in similar areas and are positioned only 20 metres apart.…

Like this!!! http://www.radionz.co.nz/national/programmes/countrylife#audio-201774976

http://goodnature.co.nz/index.php?pageID=products&productId=3

Seriously effective looking beastie....I am saving up for the rat version...

The programme is well worth a listen.

NZ First is also highly opportunist and has spotted…

Also I'm not trying to apologise for the PM and friends playing politics with the immediate eco-terrorism label. That was just dumb.

http://www.radionz.co.nz/audio/player/20170407
http://podcast.radionz.co.nz/mnr/mnr-20150311-0717-anti_1080_protesters_distancing_themselves_from_person-048.mp3

and while finding that, i stumbled across this site....

http://www.postmanproductions.org/?p=3119

(11 March, Morning Report search...natrad has the broadcast dates under the heading, I just kept clicking back until I reached the right day.…

Whatever the merits of Benfield's track record as an anti-1080 campaigner, he's not judge and jury on this case. If there was good reason to expect the pending court case to repeat the murky machinations of the media he might be the best we…

That has happened on more that one occasion on Natrad. A particular story will get aired....you expect more...it never comes.

I guess the security of their…

“As it turned out, it was an inside job, i.e. someone within the poison pest control business.”

Bill Benfield who has written two conservation-based books exposing the 1080 fraud, was interviewed by National Radio at the time the blackmail threat was made to Fonterra. **His view of an…

Which reminds me wordsmith..., clink clink. :)

Plenty of pigs and goats in the bush too. And your hippy reference. I know one hippy with a gun ,the rest are farmers and locals at the pub. all of them…

Not exclusively, from what I’ve seen. I think that’s more of a stereotype. Plus there are hunters out there who don’t have much of…

I think gin or leg-hold traps are mainly to blame for leg-loss and can honestly say that not a single possum has escaped from my Timms trap. As…

Some, but not all.

Pragmatically, we are not able to turn back time and restore NZ to how she was before the human invasion.…

Which has two problems: what about the bush that they can't get to and the possums and rats can (and the damage they do…

And yet, when visiting Auckland and Tauranga over the past few weeks....tui, bellbirds, parakeets, kereru loud to the point of "Where's my blunderbuss, so I can hear the conversation?"

Number of possible reasons...and maybe this will be the salvation of our…

Not when they've all been wiped out by rats and stoats, which was sort of the point of my Fiordland story. Don't get me wrong — I certainly wouldn't want to be anywhere near a 1080 drop and I'd love to see DoC being…

I do hear about them but have…

I haven't seen that one before but anything which wipes out possums must be applauded. I can proudly say that my trusty little Timms trap has killed 58 possums to date. Yesssss!

There is also a little gas-powered trap on the…

Actually, Alfie, the EPA review concluded that there was a greater public health hazard associated with the use of the alternatives such as cyanide.

A viable alternative is not cutting doc spending and trapping/ shooting. People who live around here.Many go trapping and many ask permission to wander over private land doing this.Many shoot possum, the fur is worth money.There are alternatives. the situation you mention may be…

I have afriend who took it upon himself to eradicate rats ,stoats and possum from the hillside near his place by the Orakei basin. He has gone out and trapped for some time but has now saved the hillside and birdlife and native bush is flourishing.…

Other solutions can be the likes of the Trapinator and with the sale of 2 of these babies, the trap has then paid for itself so it is actually a job creator also and somebody gets comfort…

To be fair, though, the presence of better methods, even if at more expense, is a claim of great dispute between the proponents…

It's a small field. They probably know this guy.

So now everyone involved in that field gets tainted with guilt by association until they finally get round to having a trial and lifting name suppression?

That could be the scenario...but…

Aha… with greed as the motive, suddenly this case starts to make sense. We learned earlier that the 1080 sample sent to Fonterra was lab quality,…

And look....you…

There are echoes of the Rodney Whitchelo case in Britain in the late 1980s. The guy thought his Scotland Yard expertise would make…

I'm holding fire on snap judgments on this one.

Doesn't quite add up somehow.

No mention of $$$ when the story broke earlier in the year....

I wonder why the name suppression?

Unless....

what a prick

Just wanted to compliment you on this phrase and notify you that I fully intend to steal…

Not just those tax cuts but all imports, overseas investors repatriating profits, re-insurance. All those things effectively mean borrowing to support "Unsustainable Lifestyles of the Rich and Famous" maybe there's a TV show in that.

Putting all our 'eco's in the one dairy basket
may be a little short sighted!