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1. 2023-10-11-Rebuttal-Evidence-of-G-Eccles-Planning-Framework.pdf [pdf, 233 KB]

   ...parties. Within the realm of "avoid", minor and transitory effects can be tolerated as can adverse effects that are so minor, or can be conditioned, that they will not generate "material harm".10 This guidance needs to be 8 Environmental Defence Society Inc v New Zealand King Salmon Company Ltd [2014] NZSC 38 at [24], [62] and [96]. 9 Port Otago Ltd v Environmental Defence Society Inc [2023] NZSC 112 at [64] – [68], for example. 10 King Salmon above n 8 at [...

2. 2023-10-11-MTA-Rebuttal-Evidence-of-D-Wilson.pdf [pdf, 228 KB]

   ...Horowhenua and associated land for the benefit of all Muaūpoko beneficial owners. I have been a trustee for three years and, since early 2023, I have also held the role of Deputy Chair of the LHT. 3. I hold the role of Kaiwhakahaere Taiao (environmental manager) for Muaūpoko Tribal Authority (MTA), the mandated iwi organisation for Muaūpoko Iwi. I have held this role since 2020. I have also, since 2020, represented MTA on the Manawatū River Accord and Horowhenua Freshwate...

3. 16-May-2020-Regional-Plan-Water-for-Otago-with-PC-7-8-proposed-amendments.pdf [pdf, 16 MB]

   ...Objectives......................................................................................................... 5-5 5.4 Policies identifying and protecting natural and human use values of lakes and rivers .......................................................................................................... 5-8 5.5 Anticipated environmental results ................................................................. 5-18 6. Water Quantity ...............................................

4. 13.-Boyden-Evans-Natural-character.pdf [pdf, 14 MB]

   ...INTRODUCTION 1. My full name is Boyden Henry Evans. 2. I am a New Zealand Institute of Landscape Architects' ("NZILA") Registered Landscape Architect and a Partner at Boffa Miskell Limited ("Boffa Miskell"), a New Zealand-owned environmental planning and design consultancy. 3. I prepared Technical Assessment I – Natural Character ("Technical Assessment I") as part of Volume V of the Assessment of Environmental Effects ("AEE"), which a...

5. Wernham v Accident Compensation Corporation (Work Related Gradual Process Injury) [2023] NZACC 022 [pdf, 315 KB]

   ...of clandestine drug laboratories (Clan Labs). A Clan Lab houses a collection of chemicals and equipment, which is used to manufacture illicit drugs (mostly, methamphetamine). The Clan Lab Team works alongside scientists from the Institute of Environmental Science and Research Ltd (ESR), collecting samples that ESR scientists test and analyse. [3] In a 40-hour week, Mr Wernham spent approximately 50% of his time at Clan Lab scenes, and 50% of his time in the office doing administra...

6. 2021-05-24 NPSREG Implementation Guide [pdf, 455 KB]

   ...demand for electricity and achieve the Government’s target of 90% renewable energy. Second, renewable electricity generation (REG) is being unduly impeded by variable provisions in local authority policies and plans and changing attitudes to the environmental effects of development associated with REG activities.5 In response, the NPS REG seeks to ensure that: • the relevant benefits of REG and the national significance of associated activities are more explicitly recognised i...

7. 2021-07-05 Transcript (up until1.30pm of day 39).pdf [pdf, 1.9 MB]

   ...the Court is considering water-users in this process and in the 15 formation of the plan change 7, it’s most necessary. In my view, it behoves the Otago Regional Council in its application of water management processes to consider not just the environmental implications but the implications on its region and people in its region, in the Otago Region. 20 Southern Lakes Holdings itself has invested significantly into the use of water resources. We have four small irrigation pro...

8. [2024] NZEnvC 136 Donaldson v Queenstown Lakes District Council [pdf, 6.4 MB]

   ...Amenity Zone rules in Table 24.1. 24.3.2.6 All activities, including any listed permitted activities are subject to the rules and standards contained in Tables 24.1 and 24.2. 24.3.2.7 For Plantation Forestry the Resource Management (National Environmental Standard for Plantation Forestry) Regulation 2017 prevails. 24.3.2.8 Rules 24.5.1.1 to 24.5.1.5 do not apply to residential units, including residential flats, located within a building platform approved by resource consent, and re...

9. 2021-03-16 Transcript to end of day 5 [pdf, 2 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...

10. Nga Runanga EiC S McIntyre Planning Amended tracked 17 Feb 2021 [PDF, 1 MB]

    ...ORC: (i) Te Rūnanga o Ngāi Tahu Freshwater Policy 1999 (NTFP); (ii) The Kāi Tahu Ki Otago Natural Resource Management Plan 2005 (NRMP); and (iii) Te Tangi Tauira: The Cry of the People - Ngāi Tahu ki Murihiku Natural Resource and Environmental Iwi Management Plan 2008 (Te Tangi). (i) The following resource consent decisions: (i) Decision on application lodged on 12 September 2019 by GlenAyr Limited, issued on 24 April 2020 (RM19.322). Page 6 34677655...