Board adamant on Sounds line
(i\cw Zealand Press Association)
BLENHEIM, May 19.
“More pages of words” were unlikely to change the environment of the Marlbordugh Sounds, said the chairman of the Marlborough Power Board (Mr J, R, E. Moore) yesterday.
He was commenting on a statement on Friday by the Acting Minister of Lands .(Mr Faulkner) that the Government would insist on ■ waiting for a full environmental impact report before allowing an overhead power iline to D’Urville Island. The Board had been subjected to innumerable delays since it began negotiations m April last year, Mr Moore said. Since then, agreemenf 'had been reached with air and marine authorities, and
i the Marlborough Sounds i Maritime Park Board, whose ; chairman was the Commis- • sioner of Crown Lands. i “Mr Faulkner says he ■ does not wish to delav : reticulation, but that’s just what he appears to be doing. What can more words on ■ paper do to change the ; environment?” i Mr Moore said that as far as he was concerned, the board's decision to go ahead ■ with the work without the i report was unchanged.
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Press, Volume CXIV, Issue 33538, 20 May 1974, Page 2
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