Andrea Vance: “Government walked back the environmental rules …housing developments, mines, or waste landfills could be built over wetlands”

Paul Bailey responds: “consents for Ruataniwha v.2 should be thrown in the bin!"

Belford: “Our community’s strategic water decisions are being delegated to non-elected faceless commissioners and outside planners”

Ihaia Hutana: “The biggest thing to me is that local people come to know what the deceptive behaviours of pakeha were like in those times”

Ngā Rūnanga: “If there’s no balance between the river's mauri and renewable energy, then any benefit from renewable energy is questionable”

Tom Kay (F & B): “decision a win for the health of the river. Braided rivers like the Ngaruroro are rare in the world”.