Keep it quiet: We're less than 100 per cent pure
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After initially deleting an entire chapter from a report about the New Zealand environment, a Government ministry has done a U-turn and released the sensitive section.
The chapter details the most intense pressures on the New Zealand environment, and identifies dairying, over-fishing, wasteful consumption and the growth of cities as having the biggest effects on the environment.
The Ministry for the Environment released chapter 13 of the State of the Environment report, saying it wanted transparency over the issue.
Announcing the decision, the ministry's communications manager, Todd Krieble, said the "conclusions chapter" was pulled because a decision was made to let the facts in the report speak for themselves.
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