I digress … thoughts on fish & the environment
Many years ago a liberterian told me a set of useful moral lesson, dressed up as a joke, about 3 lines never to trust when you hear them: The cheque is in the post. I’ll respect you in the morning. We are from the government, and we are here to help. I’ve found, for better … Read more
As a lobbyist, you are best deployed spending half of your time working to persuade people making and influencing the decisions on your files. This does not apply if you are telepath or not interested in persuading decision makers an opinion formers. There is a variation of this. Spending a lot of your time with … Read more
From time to time, I’ll meet someone who faces a disaster brought on by some legislative or regulatory decision that has just happened or is about to happen. Sometimes the person recognises what is going to happen and asks for help. Most of the time, they don’t. They seem blissfully unaware of what is going … Read more
The Environment Committee met 10 times in 2024. The Committee was busy finishing off a late flood of ordinary legislative proposals. The number of challenges was down. You can look at the challenges in 2023 and from 2019-2022 here. Some Observations The issues the Committee focus on have not changed since the last Parliament. The chance … Read more