Katharine Moody argues the Fast Track Approvals Bill is a governance arrangement as bad as the partisan means through which US Supreme Court judges are selected
Katharine Moody writes: Not good enough, Simon Court. In a recent article, the Undersecretary for Resource Management Act (RMA) reform warned Councils that picking extreme climate scenarios in the conduct of regulatory decision-making “risks lawsuits by requiring developers to design and build to overly stringent climate warming models”. By pulling out a yellow card, Simon Court
Katharine Moody calls for more resolute action to push-back on the use of extreme climate scenarios when developing local hazard planning. Despite PCE and court warnings, cells committed to the extremes still operate in rule-making bodies
Sean Rush & Katharine Moody say NZ needs to be more realistic when it comes to policy development regarding sea-level rise projections & managed retreat