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Clouded future for Te Kūiti fireplaces as air quality issues rise

For the first time in five years Te Kūiti has been relegated back with its polluting mates - Putāruru, Taupō and Tokoroa – and warned of a tougher future for home fires. Regional councils around New Zealand since 2005 focused their air monitoring programmes on airborne particles 10 microns in diameter. The focus is now shifting towards a finer particle range, referred to as PM2.5 (particulate matter with a diameter of 2.5 microns or less) because it provides better evidence of effects on human health and is more indicative of the combustion source. The Ministry for the Environment amendments to the National Environmental Standards for Air Quality (NESAQ) were predicted to come into effect in March to April 2021, but regional councils are resisting the change.

Frustrated farmers giving up on costly native bush restoration

Members of the Banks Peninsula Native Forest/Climate Change group this month met with Climate Change Minister James Shaw to outline the difficulties they face. Projects that followed in Hinewai’s footsteps allowed native bush to grow back on its own without any planting, using gorse as a nurse plant. But members told Shaw many were struggling to meet ETS guidelines. ALDEN WILLIAMS/Stuff Rod Donald Banks Peninsula Trust manager Suky Thompson makes her way down the Te Ahu Pātiki block. The trust needed money from carbon credits to help pay for ongoing fencing and pest control but in an assessment previous landowners had done, just 62 of its 500ha would qualify, manager Suky Thompson said.

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