I have just read and signed the online petition:

"Save New Zealand Wild Rivers"

hosted on the web by PetitionOnline.com, the free online petition
service, at:

http://www.PetitionOnline.com/iwrap/

I personally agree with what this petition says, and I think you might
agree, too. If you can spare a moment, please take a look, and consider
signing yourself.

A cut and paste here ,sometimes a touch of solidarity with our brotther anglers is not amiss.

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Andy Wren
Winter grayling taking a year off !
Claret not just a great dubbing colour!

Nice one Andy, signed!

I am not a great believer in the effectiveness of petitions, but I have signed.

They only need to take a look at the River Garry to see how devastating a hydro-electric scheme can be.

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But Jesus beheld them and said unto them, "With men this is impossible, but with God all things are possible."

Matthew 19:26

Also worth a look at the upper Spey in high summer - which loses a great deal of water to the Garry scheme...

A huge number of rivers in NZ have suffered the effects of hydro schemes.

Hopefully this petition will help the cause.

Mat

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Just a little bump gone from 96 to just on 200 since I put this up !

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Andy Wren
Winter grayling taking a year off !
Claret not just a great dubbing colour!

Thanks Andy, I signed too.

Alex
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xDarinax live

The reason behind this is that New Zealand is trying to be green and relies upon hydro generation for their power. THe south Island also has a link to the north Island for power. However at present the hydro lakes are at a very low level and we are having power saving shemes. So the south Island obviously needs more power, hence more hydro schemes. Along with this, dairy is big business over here and they rely upon irrigation schemes. SO most of the big rivers have irrigation extraction levels on them. It can be really disheartening to travel around the east coast of the south Island and seeing the rivers in summer reduced to dry gravel beds. Ideally we need to look at reduction in demand not an increase in generation. Some of the plans such as central plains water scheme and the waiau scheme seem orchestrated to increase profit and not to benefit the community....Sign up all!