Photo: FileA proposed Environment Canterbury rates increase of almost 25 per cent has a Christchurch city councillor up in arms. Using the environment as a reason to raise Canterbury's regional rates take by more than 24 per cent is being questioned by Harewood Ward city councillor Aaron Keown. Listen to Keown here:The New Zealand Federation of Freshwater Anglers has also come out swinging over the proposed rates increase. "Over the past two decades, ECan’s management of the region’s freshwater could best be described as 'active mismanagement'. "Ecan facilitated the region’s massive irrigation development in order to increase GDP while disregarding the nitrate pollution they knew would inevitably occur

Source: Otago Daily Times February 23, 2021 22:58 UTC