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1. Tom De Pelsemaeker - ORC Final Evidence-in-Reply - Recommended Decisions on Submissions (25 June 2021) [pdf, 2 MB]

   ...replacement of permits with review conditions, without “clawing back” allocation or preventing irrigation of land uses prior to a new land and water plan framework that gives effect to the NPSFM. Reject All Plan Change 7 70033 70033.01 Central Otago Environmental Society Inc. Support Implement an interim consenting regime to ensure that issued consents are fit for purpose and do not undermine the implementation of the NPSFWM 2020. Consents issued going forward must implement t...

2. ENVC Hearing 6Oct14 WML evidence chief Tim Johnson [pdf, 52 KB]

   ...carefully compared onsite photography, landscape plans and aerial photography when photo-editing the photography. 6 38 Final post effects such as blurring the higher resolution 3d render to match the photography plus mimicking other environmental factors such as distance haze were applied as post effects to improve the quality of the final result. 39 Final Image Correction 40 A final image correction is applied to remove the stretching found at the edges of the rec...

3. Federated-Farmers-of-New-Zealand.pdf [pdf, 322 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...

4. Potatoes-NZ-Incorporated.PDF [PDF, 908 KB]

   ...alternative relief sought below. g) The un-numbered appeal point on New method 3.11.3.2A. i) PNZ is conditionally supports to the amendments sought in this policy. ii) Providing clear direction for mitigation and land use activities based on environmental outcomes is supported. iii) PNZ prefers the effects based regime proposed in alternative relief sought below. h) The un-numbered appeal point on Rule 3.11.4.7. i) PNZ is opposed to the amendments sought in this rule. ii) The app...

5. 2021-05-17 Balquhidder Farming Ltd - R A Armstrong and M J MacGregor - Supplementary Submission 17 May 2021 [pdf, 187 KB]

   ...water take to that used between 2012/2017. This is a very damaging and detrimental way to determine future allocations. It in effects grandparents water use. How did they come up with these arbiturary years . Have they considered the changing environmental conditions like more prevlient and longer periods of draughts, how did these irrigation season compare against a 10 year average, have they looked at the different regions rather than putting a blanket cover over the whole of Ot...

6. 10 April 2019 Savi lle v Queenstown Lakes District Council [pdf, 1.3 MB]

   ...Hawthenden Limited v Queenstown Lakes District Council Appeal By Submitter On Proposed Policy Statement Or Plan pursuant to Clause 14 of the First Schedule of the Resource ManaQement Act 1991 Court Reference: ENV-2018-CHC-000055 iii. Upper Clutha Environmental Society Incorporated v Queenstown Lakes District Council Appeal By Submitter On Proposed Policy Statement Or Plan pursuant to Ctause 14 of the First Schedule of the Resource ManaQement Act 1991 Court Reference: ENV-2018-CHC-0000...

7. [2018] NZEnvC 247 Gisborne District Council v O'Connell & de Cent [pdf, 635 KB]

   ...for costs to be awarded in enforcement order proceedings. That is on the basis that if a party puts a local authority to the cost and expense of having to obtain an enforcement order from the Environment Court to compel that person to meet their environmental obligations, it is entirely appropriate that the person subject to the order should contribute to the local authority's costs of obtaining it. That is clearly the case in this instance. [22] Further, I am satisfied that th...

8. [2017] NZEnvC 064 Mitchell Family Trust v Point Trust [pdf, 262 KB]

   ...following grounds: (a) the proceeding was entirely without merit, with the affidavit evidence in support not alleging any breach of the consent conditions for the goat farm operated by the First Respondent; (b) no evidence of any alleged adverse environmental effect was produced; (c) the proceedings were speculative, with the Applicants seeking further information from the First Respondents as to the number of goats on the farm rather than based on evidence of any effect; (d) th...

9. FFNZ - EiC - F Doolan-Noble - Rural Health (25 Jan 2021) [pdf, 203 KB]

   ...https://www.rasv.com.au/recharge-program/news-items/impact-of-chronic-stress-such-as-drought-on- farmers/ 4 Daghagh Yazd S, Wheeler SA, Zuo A. Key Risk Factors Affecting Farmers' Mental Health: A Systematic Review. International Journal of Environmental Research and Public Health. 2019;16(23):4849. Published 2019 Dec 2. doi:10.3390/ijerph16234849 5 Askew, Louise E.; Sherval, Meg; and McGuirk, Pauline M., "'Not just drought.' Drought, rural change and more: perspec...

10. [2019] NZEnvC 193 West Coast Regional Council v Westland District Council [pdf, 2.5 MB]

    ...around a realistic appraisal of time, Mr Ross submits that the final dates for achievement of the last two outstanding Key Milestones are 28 February 2020 and 27 March 2020 respectively, and this extension of time will not give rise to any adverse environmental effects (because the existing wastewater treatment plan remains in operation).11 [12] The court accepts that the District Council has significant interest in seeing this project reach completion as soon as possible and will d...