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www.gefreenorthland.org.nz
GE FREE NORTHLAND Press Release
9 October 2008
FAR NORTH DISTRICT COUNCIL JOINS OTHER LOCAL AUTHORITIES IN REGIONAL SURVEY REGARDING GMOs
Far North District Council voted unanimously last week to join Waitakere City Council , Rodney, Kaipara and Whangarei District Councils in undertaking collaborative community consultation on the GE issue, as the first step in investigating some type of local regulation of GMO land use.
Many of the councils (all of whom are members of the Inter Council Working Party on GMO Risk Evaluation & Options) want a ban on genetically modified organism releases or field trials until the issue of who pays if things go wrong is sorted out.
FNDC was one of the Northland/Auckland councils who established that liability for GMO trials which went wrong would lie with local authorities, after it helped fund a legal opinion in 2004.
Chairperson Martin Robinson said We are delighted that local authorities are jointly taking action to address the risks of GMOs and refusing to accept central governments attempt to foist liability for GE stuffups on local authorities and existing land users. For primary producers and other ratepayers in Northland, a key issue is accountability when things go wrong.
"Our view has always been that there are serious risks which threaten our biosecurity, economy, primary producers, the environment and our clean green brand.
Mayor Wayne Brown strongly endorsed the move to ban GMO field trials and releases until the issues are resolved.
Possible GMOs include transgenic livestock, genetically modified vegetables, ryegrass, pine trees, and a genetically engineered vaccine for horse flu.
Martin Robinson said within New Zealand, GE experimentation so far had been confined to laboratories or field trials. (including the poorly contained HortResearch GE Tamarillo trial).
However, the next stage in the development of genetically modified plants and animals is likely to be pre-commercial conditional releases to the environment.
"The working party found if the Northland/Auckland region was included in any of these applications, it would effectively be too late for (those) councils to prevent the release should it be approved by the national regulator, ERMA."
"Any chance of the region remaining GE-free, until the issues of liability are resolved, would be lost," he said.
GE FREE NORTHLAND believes the next logical step is achieving enforceable REGIONAL EXCLUSION ZONE status (for GE) for Northland.
Ideally, a shared approach to prohibiting GE activities will be taken by local government on a regional level.
Northland is ideally placed geographically to achieve this distinction, which would minimize the economic, environmental, public health and liability exposures from GE release and experiments.
ENDS
Contact:
Martin Robinson, Chairperson
GE FREE NORTHLAND (in Food & Environment)
09 407 8650 Kerikeri
or spokesperson Zelka Grammer
09 432 2155 Whangarei
www.gefreenorthland.org.nz
BACKGROUND:
www.wdc.govt.nz/resources/8715/Opinion-GMOs2005.pdf
A legal opinion from one of the countries top Resource Management lawyers - Dr. Royden Somerville, QC on the role of local government regarding GMOs in their region has was released by Whangarei District Council in 2005
The legal opinion indicates that local government does have jurisdiction regarding GMOs under the RMA and Local Government Act 2002 should the council choose to exercise it. The legal opinion was commissioned by Whangarei District Council, with support of all other territorial authorities in Northland, as well as Rodney District Council, Waitakere City Council and Local Government NZ.
Community Management of GMOs II - November 2005 www.wdc.govt.nz/customerservice/?lc=reader&m=tssd&i=3433
ENDS
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