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1. 2021-05-18 Transcript (up until end of day 28 - 14.05.2021) [pdf, 2.9 MB]

   ...we’ve got 394 hectares of land there. We’re running a dairy finishing and beef finishing unit so we’re 100% cattle and we’ve got 230, or 224 hectares of spray irrigation. 10 Q. Thank you. And I understand that in 2020 you received an environmental award. Can you explain what that was about? A. In 2020 we were the Balanced Farm Environment Awards Otago Supreme Winners along with the Soil Management Award from Balance and the Waterwise Award from Water Force, thank you. 1...

2. 2021-05-18 Transcript (up until end of day 28 - 14.05.2021) [pdf, 2.9 MB]

   ...we’ve got 394 hectares of land there. We’re running a dairy finishing and beef finishing unit so we’re 100% cattle and we’ve got 230, or 224 hectares of spray irrigation. 10 Q. Thank you. And I understand that in 2020 you received an environmental award. Can you explain what that was about? A. In 2020 we were the Balanced Farm Environment Awards Otago Supreme Winners along with the Soil Management Award from Balance and the Waterwise Award from Water Force, thank you. 1...

3. Transcript (week 6 Cromwell) [pdf, 2.9 MB]

   ...we’ve got 394 hectares of land there. We’re running a dairy finishing and beef finishing unit so we’re 100% cattle and we’ve got 230, or 224 hectares of spray irrigation. 10 Q. Thank you. And I understand that in 2020 you received an environmental award. Can you explain what that was about? A. In 2020 we were the Balanced Farm Environment Awards Otago Supreme Winners along with the Soil Management Award from Balance and the Waterwise Award from Water Force, thank you. 1...

4. ENVC Matiatia expert witness traffic and transport addnl 2014 [pdf, 2.2 MB]

   ...vulnerability results in an estimate of 150-200vph. Additionally, the paper refers to Roads and Traffic Authority (now Roads and Maritimes Services)'s Guide to Traffic Generating Development, which sets out a desirable maximum peak volume (the environmental goal) of 200vph and an absolute maximum of 300vph.3 User defined capacity based on the simulated survey In accordance with NZTA research report 489, congestion can be defined by user perception when "speeds fall below a...

5. BORA Resource Legislation Amendment Bill [pdf, 436 KB]

   ...adaptable resource management processes; and c. robust and durable resource management decisions. 5. The principal proposed amendments are to the Resource Management Act 1991 (‘the principal Act’), the Exclusive Economic Zone and Continental Shelf (Environmental Effects) Act 2012, and the Environmental Protection Authority Act 2011. The Bill would also amend the Conservation Act 1987, the Reserves Act 1977, and the Public Works Act 1981. 6. To achieve the purpose of the Bill, th...

6. 28 May 2018 Thames Coromandel PDP Landscape & Rural [pdf, 211 KB]

   ...Forest and Bird Protection Society of New Zealand Incorporated v Thames-Coromandel District Council Coromandel Watchdog of Hauraki Incorporated v Thames-Coromandel District Council Waikato Regional Council v Thames-Coromandel District Council Environmental Defence Society Incorporated v Thames-Coromandel District Council Coromandel Property Owners Alliance Incorporated v Thames-Coromandel District Council I M Wernham v Thames-Coromandel District Council Blackjack Farms Limited &a...

7. Memorandum of Counsel for Guardians of the Bays Incorporated 7 February 2017 [pdf, 176 KB]

   ...originally proposed by WIAL) is premature; will not assist in narrowing the issues at that stage; and will be an inefficient use of resources (which are limited to GOTB, HtT, and SPS, if not other submitters). 3.2 Reasons for this include that the Environmental Legal Assistance (ELA) panel is not expected to make its decision until approximately 1 March 2017 (being six weeks following the application date of 17 January 2017). Any parties awaiting the result of the ELA funding...

8. South Waikato District Council.pdf [pdf, 239 KB]

   ...Appellant inappropriately conflates Biodiversity Offsetting under the Department of Conservation guidelines which draws from the Business and Biodiversity Offsets Programme (“BBOP”) with the offsetting of nutrients. (c) Use of the term ‘net environmental benefit’ is not appropriate as offsetting should relate to the reduction of the relevant diffuse discharges of the four contaminants that are within the scope of PC1. (d) There is no scientific or evidential basis for...

9. [2022] NZEnvC 096 Canterbury Regional Council v MacLee Holdings Ltd [pdf, 202 KB]

   ...timetable, and acknowledges that she did not appreciate what would be involved in terms of compliance with the orders.7 However, she explains that she has recently taken steps to correct the situation by entering into a contract with Sephira Environmental Limited, a specialist environmental consultant firm with expertise in contaminated site remediation.8 Sephira has advised Ms Bullock that four 6 Affidavit of L M Bullock, dated 7 June 2022 at [6]. 7 Affidavit of L M Bullock,...

10. [2021] NZEnvC 166 W North Limited v Greater Wellington Regional Council [pdf, 166 KB]

    ...Max Curnow, who is an enforcement officer for the Council. As the Appellant notes, in considering whether the area in question might be a wetland, Mr Curnow referred to the definitions within the Proposed Natural Resources Plan and the National Environmental Standards for Freshwater. Neither of those documents were in force at the time the resource consent was granted in 2017. [4] On 28 June 2021, the Appellant was served with an Abatement Notice issued under s322 of the Resource Ma...