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1. Joint Witness Statement Noise and Vibration 25 July 2018 [pdf, 3.5 MB]

   ...holder shall provide a report from a suitably qualified acoustics expert setting out sufficient detail to demonstrate that the speaker system(s) have been calibrated by noise measurements in accordance with NZS6801 :2008 Acoustics - Measurement of environmental sound to ensure that the cumulative noise level from the operation of the speakers and all other Operations (excluding crowd noise) will be compliant with the noise limits in Condition 194C at all times. The speakers may not be use...

2. Territorial Authorities - JS McGirr - Supplementary - 12 May 2021.pdf [pdf, 2.1 MB]

   ...adequate to deal with any adverse effect on the environment which may arise from the exercise of the consent and which it is appropriate to deal with at a later stage; or (c) ensuring the conditions of this consent are consistent with any National Environmental Standards Regulations; or; (d) adjusting or altering the method of water take data recording and transmission. (e) ensuring the water meters and dataloggers installed and operated under Condition 7 are consistent with any “...

3. [2017] NZEnvC 141 NZ Energy Ltd v Manawatu Wanganui Regional Council [pdf, 622 KB]

   ...could not confidently comment on the likely actual effects on water clarity from the information available. He supported establishment of a monitoring regime consistent with that recommended in the technical JWS at Attachment 6. [42] Mr Beale, environmental scientist and planning consultant for NZEL, considered that turbidity monitoring of the Orautoha Stream above and below the discharge from the powerhouse was more appropriate than monitoring turbidity at the head pond. He put f...

4. 2021-04-12 Landpro - C Perkins - Updated Appendix A [pdf, 339 KB]

   ...proposed amendments are footnoted with a reference to either a submission in general or the particular part of a submission that gives the scope for the proposal. The coding used is that contained in the Summary of Decisions table prepared for the Environmental Protection Authority (EPA) and published on the EPA website. Where “consequential amendment” is noted, the amendment is a necessary consequence of a submission-based recommended amendment so that the overall integrity of...

5. [2016] NZEmpC 142 Leota v The CE of the Ministry of Social Development [pdf, 279 KB]

   ...Consultant. It was also supplied to Mr Leota. Dr Culpan found that there was no chronic illness or underlying untreated health problem, or poor or diminished immunity, which would explain Mr Leota’s claimed illnesses. Dr Culpan could not find any environmental causes of increased ill-health in the environment in which Mr Leota worked. His finding was: Having considered all these ma[t]ters I can see no easy way of improving his attendance at work and diminishing his sick leave...

6. Short v Stowers - Tumu Kaituna 14 (2018) 199 Waiariki MB 188 (199 WAR 188) [pdf, 335 KB]

   ...Malcolm Short, Pirihira Fenwick, Uenuku Fairhall and Waldo Houia.3 [7] In his affidavit attached to the application, Mr Short advised that approximately 90 hectares of the land is constrained from development due to wetlands, beachfront and other environmental and cultural factors, however, 151 hectares is considered capable of development. He pointed out that when the trust was vested in trustees in 1990, there was a vision and expectation that the trustees would be developing the...

7. COVID-19 Alert Level 4 in the District Court data summary [pdf, 439 KB]

   ...08: Theft and related offences 1,652 -666 -29% 09: Fraud, deception and related offences 501 -345 -41% 10: Illicit drug offences 1,229 193 19% 11: Prohibited and regulated weapons and explosives offences 518 -93 -15% 12: Property damage and environmental pollution 493 -74 -13% 13: Public order offences 369 -127 -26% 14: Traffic and vehicle regulatory offences 2,852 -243 -8% 15: Offences against justice procedures, government security and government operations 1,848 -1737 -48%...

8. [2022] NZACC 58 – Large v ACC (7 April 2022) [pdf, 261 KB]

   ...Appeal was lodged. [29] The Corporation’s clinical advisory panel (“the CAP”) reviewed the claim and provided a report dated 5 August 2021. The CAP was comprised of four orthopaedic surgeons, a sports medicine specialist, an occupational and environmental medicine specialist, and a general surgeon. The CAP agreed with the previous opinions that the L4/5 disc bulge was a material contribution to Mr Large’s symptoms. The CAP noted that the mechanism of injury described by M...

9. [2024] NZLVT 040 - Keystone Trust v Ōpōtiki District Council (10 July 2024) [pdf, 1.9 MB]

   ...secured. [75] Although the parties could rely on continuing access along Lot 75 there was some uncertainty as to whether they could continue to obtain access through Lot 66, and the alternatives along Whanarua Stream appear to be both difficult environmentally, as the road crosses the stream a number of times, physically and also culturally. [76] We have therefore adjusted the figure without the access constraint which we set at $720,000 by 20 percent to achieve a Land Value of the...

10. 2023-09-26-SOE_Logan-Brown_Water-Quality-and-Aquatic-Ecology.pdf [pdf, 329 KB]

    ...regional regulatory authorities”. This should be done by a suitably qualified expert. [30] The Waka Kotahi conditions propose that only the information required to be collected under clauses 62, 63, and 68 of the Resource Management (National Environmental Standards for Freshwater) Regulations 2020 (NES- F) is provided to the Regional Councils. I understand that Waka Kotahi considers this condition to meet the requirements of the ecologists in the Freshwater Ecology JWS. 8...