So when people ask me, "Simon, why ACT and why now?", well, I tell them big government and heavy-handed regulation has failed to solve our worst environmental, transport, and infrastructure problems, and it always will. We have a responsibility to rest lightly on the earth but government is too often the cause of not the solution to our problems. Every year, there are hundreds of raw sewage overflows on to beaches from councils' networks in streams and harbours around Auckland—not big evil corporates, but local government. We know that is wrong, but the Resource Management Act (RMA) lets councils in places like Auckland and Wellington get away with it because they can obtain consents which are readily granted. This needs to change. The RMA makes getting a permit for waste to energy almost impossible. As a result, we now bury 3½ million tonnes of waste in landfills every single year. And how does big Government, big, regulating Government, think they're going to solve this one? With more landfill taxes—or the RMA denies New Zealand the very technology which solved the landfill crisis in under 15 years.