Protecting soils
Sir, —Your leading article (July 5) urges that we must all be prepared to pay the cost of protecting good soil from urban expansion. We should also be prepared to pay more, if necessary, for such developments as hydroelectricity, if we can thus save good land. The shortsighted scheme in the upper Clutha Valley is being pressed forward on the uncertain grounds that it is the cheapest of several alternatives, and in spite of contrary recommendations from successive official investigations. The flooding of some of the most productive orchard land in the country could be avoided by.
the use of an alternative scheme. Even if it does cost more, we should be prepared to pay to save this asset, as well as out of consideration for the people, long established on that land, who could never be fully compensated for what they would lose. Only a few people far away? It may be ourselves next.—Yours, etc., JIM McCAHON July 5, 1977.
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