Have your say on PenlinkBy: Janet Fitzgerald We’re starting to feel the temperature drop and the leaves falling from the trees as autumn settles in. We’re also now halfway through the three-year Local Board term. As I reflect on my last year and a half, it has certainly been marked by significant advocacy and the highs and lows of Penlink.
The Penlink journey has been a long one – I’ve been campaigning for it for just over 30 years.
Getting big projects like Penlink achieved takes time, commitment, and a whole heap of passion. It’s one thing to have a ‘can-do’ attitude, but to achieve real results, it means tirelessly advocating at every opportunity. It means utilising the correct processes within the system to get buy-in from the right people. Things don’t just happen; you have to drive the change you want to see.
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“We have some recommendations that this forum [the council] looks for other forms of funding to save the planet, rather than the ratepayer.” Next up, representatives of the Nelson Tasman Climate Forum presented their completed climate action plan, the result of months of volunteer work after the forum first launched with funding from the Nelson City Council after its declaration. After public submissions came the regular business of the day, first with the committee voting to retroactively approve the council’s submissions on the Climate Change Commission’s draft advice for the Government. The council’s submission, which can be read as an attachment on the committee agenda, largely suggested that the commission’s advice was not ambitious enough.