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Date: 08 Jun 2006 to 18 Sep 2006 - 08 Jun 2006 - 18 Sep 2006

By: Mackenzie Centre Community Trust; Foley, Jacqueline, 1951-

Reference: OHColl-0829

Description: Interviews with those who worked on the hydro electric dam projects in the Mackenzie Basin and residents in towns nearby. The hydro dam systems include the Upper Waitaki system and the Waitaki system. The interviewees are, Michael Higgins, Sid Hurst, Peter Law, Struan Munro, Barry Phibbs, Esta Phibbs, Marion Sheridan, Max Smith and Alistair Wills. Abstracted by - Jacquie Foley Interviewer(s) - Jacqui Foley Quantity: 15 C60 cassette(s). 9 printed abstract(s). 9 interview(s). Finding Aids: Abstract Available - abstracting complete.

Date: 2012

From: Fletcher, David, 1952- :Digital cartoons

By: Dominion post (Newspaper)

Reference: DCDL-0022560

Description: 'The Politician' cartoon strip. A man asks if their minister is involved in the 'money for mates' scandal. His colleague responds that it is unlikely, since 'he doesn't have any mates.' Context: Former environment Minister Nick Smith gave $180,000 of taxpayer cash to fund meetings to resolve disputes between farmers and environmentalists clashing over projects in the Mackenzie Basin and Waitaki Valley. More than half the cash went to environmental consultants - including about $88,000 to Ecologic, a firm run by Dr Smith's friend Guy Salmon. (Stuff.co.nz, 23 July 2012) Quantity: 1 digital cartoon(s).

Date: 2010

From: Tremain, Garrick, 1941- :[Digital cartoons published in the Otago Daily Times]

Reference: DCDL-0013556

Description: The cartoon shows a van bearing the words 'Ohau Indoors Dairying Tours' which is carrying tourists through a herd of cows that have broken out of their indoor shed. The driver tells the tourists that 'a huge money making scheme but they never factored in claustrophobia'. Refers to controversial cubicle dairying proposals for the Mackenzie Basin, controversial because there is a fear that it will affect New Zealand's image for tourism as well as the effects it will have on the natural ecosystems. Quantity: 1 digital cartoon(s).

Date: 2010

From: Tremain, Garrick, 1941- :[Digital cartoons published in the Otago Daily Times]

Reference: DCDL-0013577

Description: Two cows in the Mackenzie Basin chat about how the government seems to be siding with them and the environment instead of the 'big money boys'. The second cow is sceptical. Just then a pig with wings and flying goggles trots past saying that it has just been cleared for take off. Refers to the widespread public and political opposition to the proposal by Southdown Holdings, Williamson Holdings, and Five Rivers to establish a cubicle dairy farm in the South Island's Mackenzie Basin. Environment Minister Nick Smith says that he has 'called in these discharge consents as they are nationally significant due to their scale, the fragile and iconic nature of the Mackenzie Basin environment, the importance of freshwater quality to the Government and the high level of public interest'. Quantity: 1 digital cartoon(s).

Date: 2010

From: Scott, Thomas, 1947- :[Digital cartoons published in the Dominion Post]

Reference: DCDL-0014601

Description: A satellite spins through the earth's atmosphere and as it passes over the Mackenzie Basin one of the astronauts notices in horror a vile green stain spreading through the area. His colleague replies that it is dairy farming. Refers to the plans for intensive dairy farming in the Mackenzie Basin which opponants say will result in a ruined landscape because of the effluant from the irrigation required. Quantity: 1 digital cartoon(s).

Date: 2010

From: Nisbet, Alastair, 1958- :Digital cartoons

Reference: DCDL-0014318

Description: Shows the 'Church of the Good Friesian' which is a grey church-like building decorated with white paint in the shapes of milk spills. It has handles protruding from the sides so that it can be moved. Cows peer out of all the windows. Text above reads 'The next Mackenzie country icon?...' and sightseers comment that if they go up Mt John they can look down on the Milky Way'. Refers to intensive dairy farming proposed for the Mackenzie Basin which means keeping cows in sheds for most of the year. Quantity: 1 digital cartoon(s).