Stop The Drop!

The Brook Valley Community Group Incorporated (BVCG) has filed papers in the High Court.

We started out simply wanting to prevent the aerial drop of 26.5 tonnes of Brodifacoum poison bait pellets into our watershed. It’s a long story not easily summarized. They think it’s necessary, we think it’s a bad idea.

Just recently, Nick Smith thought it a good idea to trample over seven hundred years of law, back to and including Magna Carta, and pass a new regulation amending the Resource Management Act permitting this proposed poison drop and removing all local input into the decision-making. This affects you, wherever you are, and he can’t be allowed to get away with it.

You might not care too much about our Brook, but we do, and we can be relied upon to put a stop to what is proposed here. When it comes to the broader issue, however, we want you to come to the party. It’ll be you next if we don’t stop this crazy erosion of our democratic processes right now.

We think what we are doing has significance well beyond The Brook, in Nelson.

The funds raised will be used for legal costs which could reach $80,000 and beyond. We have paid our lawyer $1000 for services rendered!​ Some of the court costs have been waived due to being an incorporated society but we are looking at $80,000 - $100,000. Fighting these Resource Management Act changes are for the greater good of all of us in N.Z.

If we do not receive enough donations via this Givealittle page the donations will be used for Stop 1080.