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1. 18.-Manahi-Paewai-Rangitane-o-tamaki-nui-a-rua.pdf [pdf, 5.5 MB]

   ...Tararua Highway Project ("Project"), by way of a presentation appended to this evidence as Attachment MP.1; (c) to summarise the Cultural Impact Assessment ("CIA"), which RoTnaR prepared as part of Volume VI of the Assessment of Environmental Effects ("AEE"), which accompanied the application for resource consents lodged with Manawatū-Whanganui Regional Council ("Horizons") on 11 March 2020 in respect of the Project; (d) to describe further...

2. [2021] NZACC 190 – Barton v ACC (30 November 2021) [pdf, 225 KB]

   ...[41] The Corporation referred Mr Barton’s case to a Clinical Advisory Panel comprising Mr Denis Atkinson, Orthopaedic Surgeon; Dr Michael Austen, Urgent Care Specialist; Mr Joe Brownlee, Orthopaedic Surgeon; and Dr May Obele, Occupational and Environmental Medicine Specialist. On 10 March 2021, the panel reported: 10 The medical evidence indicates that Mr Barton’s initial 2008 right hip joint replacement was uncomplicated, and he had no significant difficulties until 201...

3. Sanford Limited [pdf, 476 KB]

   ...alternative location exists, or is workable for fishing industry activities. It would be inappropriate to grant consent to the Proposal until such time as these matters have been appropriately resolved, and it can be demonstrated that the adverse environmental effects, including on the Submitters, can be appropriately avoided, remedied or mitigated. (c) Further, and more fundamentally, the Submitters are concerned that their relocation from their current berthage areas is likely...

4. Name suppression June 2020 [xlsx, 136 KB]

   ...offences 292 438 457 681 467 620 485 584 337 636 5% 7% 7% 11% 8% 9% 8% 9% 6% 10% Total name suppression 11: Prohibited and regulated weapons and explosives offences 70 133 94 50 66 83 103 77 71 145 1% 2% 1% 1% 1% 1% 2% 1% 1% 2% Total name suppression 12: Property damage and environmental pollution 145 131 96 66 63 80 103 130 75 123 2% 2% 1% 1% 1% 1% 2% 2% 1% 2% Total name suppression 13: Public order offences 638 564 772 468 632 512 296 318 325 392 11% 10% 12% 8% 11% 8% 5% 5% 6% 6% Total na...

5. [2022] NZEnvC 079 Woolworths New Zealand Limited [pdf, 320 KB]

   ...application by Woolworths was lodged. It is useful to refer to that decision and to counsel’s submissions. [32] In BW Offshore, the High Court had overturned an Environment Court decision awarding a higher than usual award of costs against the Environmental Protection Agency (‘EPA’), who was a party to the court’s proceedings and appeared to signal a departure from reliance on the Bielby factors, making the observations (relevantly) that: (a) while acknowledging that the...

6. [2022] NZEnvC 005 Northlake Investments Limited v Queenstown Lakes District Council [pdf, 231 KB]

   ...is the potential conflict of interest, or appearance of that, in the fact that QLDC is, at the same time as administering the consent at issue, subject to abatement notice proceedings issued by Otago Regional Council for alleged RMA breach and environmental damage (erosion in a DoC reserve) associated with discharges of stormwater, including from the Site. [10] I signalled that, if the parties would seek to take up the opportunity of facilitated ADR, Commissioner Mabin (who has pre-...

7. Environment Court annual report 2015 [pdf, 475 KB]

   ...ensuring the orderly and expeditious discharge of the business of the Court. 1.4 The Court's Jurisdiction The Environment Court is established by section 247 of the RMA as a Court of record. It is a specialist court that has jurisdiction over environmental and resource management matters. It can be characterised as follows: • a Judge usually presides at sittings to hear and determine proceedings • it is required by law to act judicially • it hears contesting parties to the...

8. [2024] NZEnvC 225 Auckland International Airport Limited v Auckland Transport [pdf, 6 MB]

   ...tertiary education facility, classroom in an education facility and healthcare facility with an overnight stay facility AUP Auckland Unitary Plan BPO or Best Practicable Has the same meaning as in section 2 of the RMA 1991 Option CEMP Construction Environmental Management Plan Certification of material Confirmation from the Manager that a material change to a plan or changes to management CNVMP Schedule has been prepared in accordance with the condition plans and CNVMP to which it r...

9. O'Neill v Accident Compensation Corporation (Cover) [2024] NZACC 191 (26 November 2024) [pdf, 250 KB]

   ...standing rather than supine when the hernia reduces and any lump disappears. Inguinal hernias occur because of deficient connective tissue (collagen) in the abdominal linking due to multiple factors such as genetic, constitutional, nutritional and environmental of which smoking is a known contributor. [Emphasis added] Mr O’Neill’s evidence [18] Mr O’Neill explained he was standing at the back of a van. A colleague was standing outside the van. He was getting ready to lift...

10. [2023] NZEnvC 203 Director-General of Conservation v Marlborough District Council [pdf, 1.3 MB]

    ...warning devices or the operation of emergency pressure relief values; b) Noise generated by emergency work arising from the need to respond to an immediate health and safety risk or prevent loss or serious damage to property or minimise or prevent environmental effects; and c) Noise ordinarily generated by the arrival and departure of vessels servicing the Salmon Farms. 52. At the Compliance Manager’s request, the consent holder shall commission a report from a Suitably Qu...