Officials and Investors Wary of Green Scare campaigns

HASTINGS, HAWKE'S BAY, NEW ZEALAND, November 14, 2014 /EINPresswire.com/ -- Freshwater for global markets from the mouth of Clutha River is considered to be the next new export commodity from the New Zealand's South Island which powered the nation's economy first with gold discoveries then with refrigerated frozen meat shipments.


The mouth of the Clutha River is zoned industrial. This quiet zoning has anticipated moves by New Zealand's immensely powerful cadre of liberal professional activists in non productive sectors of the economy. This movement, centred around the Green Party, is widely considered to be undermining the region's dairy industry through constant propaganda based on nitrates in waterways.


The Clutha River is the nation's highest volume with a catchment of 22,000 square kilometres. It offers safe harbour to deep draft bulk container vessels. There are extensive fresh water springs at the river mouth.


Fresh water shipments from the South Island have been treated gingerly since approval was officially scotched for a deep water loading point at the outlet of the Manapouri Power Station in Fiordland.


Those eyeing the Clutha River mouth scheme view direct loading into tanker as an alternative to Southern hemisphere desalinisation plants with their heavy demands on conventional energy in order to power them.


New Zealand uses only one percent of its fresh water compared with an OECD average of 11 percent. This is hardly surprising since less than one percent of New Zealand is urban.


The Clutha River constantly gets high marks from international ratings agencies for the purity of the water in its catchment.


Freshwater has been rated by these same agencies as becoming the most sought after global commodity of this century, rivalling oil in the last century.


Governmental officials and investors know though that any formal announcements in regard to New Zealand exploiting its fresh water resources will be treated as political capital by the urban-eco lobby. In the past any broaching of bulk fresh water exports has triggered media-based scare campaigns at home – and abroad.

This article penned by MSCNewsWire's Specialist Technical Journalist Peter Isaac. Peter is author of New Zealand’s first book on IT, Computing in New Zealand. His specialisation is in production control systems. His role in technology as practitioner and commentator has involved him in leading international tour groups into the world’s industrial zones. He is president of the National Press Club. He writes exclusively for MSCNewsWire and theFactoryFloor.

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