Impact reports 'too late’
PA Dunedin Environmental impact reporting comes too late in* the process of- project development, Mr lan Baumgart, Commissioner for the Environment, hits said at the New Zealand Institution of Engineers' conference at Dunedin. Because of this, initial options were not given sufficient scrutiny and aims were not tested and evaluated, he said. “It is for this reason that I have sought, while I have headed the Commission for the Environment, to put as much of our resources as possible into initiating studies of environmental questions that seem likely to become important issues in the future,” Mr Baumgart said. “My aim is 50 per cent., but I have not achieved this.” Mr Baumgart said that New Zealand had a long way to go in developing techniques of public consultation and in assessing what public responses really signified. “In many issues, interest groups and the general public have shown skills, enthusiasm, and knowledge which have helped greatly to clarify community concerns and aims,” he said. An informed public was a resource that should be used increasingly.
Impact reports 'too late’
Press, 16 February 1980, Page 5
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