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1. [2021] NZEnvC 164 Otago Regional Council [pdf, 4 MB]

   ...Territorial Authorities 4. Water Quality 5. Water Quantity 6. Schedule 10A.4 7. Decisions on Submissions 8. Plan Change 7 Provisions Abbreviations used in the decision CA Rule Controlled activity rule DA Rule Discretionary activity rule EPA Environmental Protection Authority FMU Freshwater Management Unit Freshwater – NES Resource Management (National Environmental Standards for Freshwater) Regulations 2020 HEG Hydro-electricity generation Kāi Tahu ki Otago Te Runanga...

2. [2018] NZEnvC 079 Maungaharuru Tangitu Trust v Hastings District Council [pdf, 2.4 MB]

   ...physical resources of the Hawke'S Bay region, while recognising the importance of resource use activity in Hawke's Bay, and its contribution to the development and prosperity of the region. OBJ 2: To maximise certainty by providing clear environmental direction. OBJ3: To avoid the imposition of unnecessary costs of regulation on resource users and other people. Again, there is no real issue about the Regional Policy Statement giving effect to the higher order documents...

3. [2021] NZEnvC 146 Ngati Paoa Trust Board v Kennedy Point Boatharbour [pdf, 437 KB]

   ...Environment Court must not make an enforcement order under section 314(1)(a)(ii), (b)(ii), (c), (d)(iv), or (da) against a person if— (a) that person is acting in accordance with— 7 (i) a rule in a plan; or (ii) a resource consent; or (iii) a designation; and (b) the adverse effects in respect of which the order is sought were expressly recognised by the person who approved the plan, or granted the resource consent, or approved the designation, at the time of the approval...

4. 2021-03-12 ORC PC7 - Transcript - up to end of day 3 [pdf, 1.4 MB]

   ...express the aspirations of communities and tangata whenua for each FMU, or part FMU. This will provide the foundation for freshwater management in the new land and 15 water regional plan (LWRP) and set the basis for identifying values, setting environmental outcomes and environmental flows and levels required by the NPSFM. The Council has committed to notifying a new land and water regional plan by 20 31 December 2023. The Council science team has created a number of dedica...

5. Transcript - Hearing - PC7 - 12 April 2021 [pdf, 1.1 MB]

   ...important, then what other methods are available to us to recognise the work being done by priorities as between abstractors, and should our interests be as between abstractors only, which is what we think priorities are about, or should it have an environmental focus, which is a particular interest in dock, Director General, Conservation. So we will be, again, 25 looking to our alternatives, if priorities don’t survive, but there’s a gap, how can the gap be bridged, how should...

6. 2021-04-12 Transcript (up to end of day 15) [pdf, 1.1 MB]

   ...important, then what other methods are available to us to recognise the work being done by priorities as between abstractors, and should our interests be as between abstractors only, which is what we think priorities are about, or should it have an environmental focus, which is a particular interest in dock, Director General, Conservation. So we will be, again, 25 looking to our alternatives, if priorities don’t survive, but there’s a gap, how can the gap be bridged, how should...

7. [2022] NZEnvC 145 Ngati Tuwharetoa Geothermal Assets Limited v Bay of Plenty Regional Council [pdf, 521 KB]

   ...longer contingency discharge authorised under condition 7.4; and iv. To amend or add discharge management strategy, modelling, monitoring, and reporting conditions, and conditions implementing additional measures to avoid, remedy or mitigate adverse environmental effects, in order to enable the Council to better manage any unanticipated adverse effects that may arise from the exercise of this resource consent; b. At any time, where compliance or impact monitoring undertaken by the B...

8. Federated Farmers of New Zealand.pdf [pdf, 597 KB]

   ...wellbeing of the Waikato and Waipā Rivers. However, Federated Farmers considers that the regulatory and non-regulatory methods proposed in PC1 do not appropriately give effect to the relevant higher order documents, have not appropriately balanced environmental, economic, social and cultural considerations, and are not the most efficient and effective means of achieving the objective of the plan change. 4. Federated Farmers is interested in all the issues raised by the Appell...

9. [2019] NZEnvC 039 New Zealand Association of Radio Transmitters Incorporated v Kapiti Coast District Council [pdf, 611 KB]

   ...structure" have been used interchangeably in the evidence. For simplicity, we have adopted the term support structure to mean all three. Support structures can be of lattice or tubular construction and either guyed or self-supporting. They can be designed to telescope or tilt over to provide access to aerial arrays if these are mounted on the structures. Small low-speed motors can be located within the support structures to provide for the rotation of aerial arrays. Aerial The de...

10. 2021-03-23 OWRUG opening subs [pdf, 311 KB]

    ...allocation in contravention of the obligation to begin implementing the NPS FM 2020 as soon as reasonably practicable. 12. All the policy making in the world will not save the non-migratory galaxiids of Otago if the permits held to take water are not designed to protect them. It is the Otago Regional Council’s position, or so it seems, that doing nothing to that end in Otago for at least six years is an acceptable outcome. OWRUG does not agree with that proposition, because t...