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1. 2020-10-16-EPA-PC1-Summary-of-Submissions-Further-Submission-Spreadsheet.xlsx [xlsx, 34 KB]

   ...Council Support Amend by updating to reflect current challenges (waste minimisation reforms, waste levy regime, Historic practices, Illegal dumping, Classification differences, farm landfills and offal pits, green waste landfills causing more than minor environmental effects, and cleanfill operations which accept non-inert wastes). Y Y FS106 Aukaha Ltd. on behalf of Te Rūnanga o Moeraki, Kāti Huirapa Rūnaka ki Puketeraki, Te Rūnanga o Ōtākou and Hokonui Rūnanga Oppose Issue 7.2.3 10019...

2. Government Response to Te Aka Matua o te Ture | Law Commission Report: The Use of DNA in Criminal Investigations | Te Whakamahi i te Ira Tangata i ngā Mātai Taihara [pdf, 825 KB]

   ...Information) Bill 2015. https://www.justice.govt.nz/assets/Documents/Publications/bora-returning-offenders-bill.pdf 4 Mixed samples refer to samples that contain multiple people’s DNA in it. Approximately half of crime scene samples are mixed. Environmental Science and Research can use software to determine the likely number of donors and their likely respective DNA profiles 2v3hev5ds4 2021-05-25 10:06:07 https://www.justice.govt.nz/assets/Documents/Publications/BORA-Criminal-Inv...

3. D-G of Conservation - Murray Brass - EIC - 25 February 2022 [pdf, 234 KB]

   ...processes: Plan Change 2 to the RPW (Regionally Significant Wetlands) and Plan Change 6A to the RPW (Water Quality). (e) Providing input from a local government perspective to the Ministry for the Environment in the development of the National Environmental Standards for Plantation Forestry 2018, the National Policy Statement for Renewable Electricity Generation 2011, and the National M Brass Evidence on Proposed Plan Change 8 to the Regional Plan: Water for Otago [D...

4. [2022] NZEnvC 085 Lee & Rochwalski v Buller District Council [pdf, 380 KB]

   ...summons:11 Feb 2015 Present at formal meeting relating to the matters of errors on Resource Consent RC06183 including: the location, unofficial naming of creek … lack of consultation with landowners but Graeme Smith was consulted. No assessment of environmental effects such as seasonal flow and quality and quantity of supply. Ms Clark is currently a senior consents officer at the West Coast Regional Council. The objectors’ memorandum provides as reasons for the summons:12 F...

5. 2021-06-15 ORC - MOC - Submissions in response to Amicus Curiae memorandum [pdf, 183 KB]

   ...submissions of counsel for the Otago Regional Council dated 8 March 2021. 11 permit holders8, particularly those located downstream who rely on a right of priority to take water during times of low flow; and (ii) recognising an incidental environmental benefit from the existence and exercise of priorities on flows and instream values. 40 Further, it is submitted that any conditions imposed under a rule would meet the requirements of section 108AA as it would be directly...

6. Annexure 2 - Scope Challenges [pdf, 281 KB]

   ...Hydro-Electric Power Schemes from the plan change policies on duration.50 All new and replacement consents associated with the schemes would also be assessed under the operative regional plan’s policy on duration (Policy 6.4.19) except that environmental effects for the first six years of the proposed activity would not be considered. Resource consent for replacement permits would be required under PC7 with permits exceeding six-year duration (but expiring 2038) to be assessed a...

7. [2022] NZACC 129 – McInnes v ACC (4 July 2022) [pdf, 305 KB]

   ...cardiovascular disease “breaking it down into subparts”, atherosclerotic coronary artery disease (progressive) hypertension, and a transient ischemic attack/cerebrovascular disease. He described hypertension as resulting from a complex interplay of environmental and genetic factors. He did not think it was possible to define any single specific cause of hypertension in the appellant’s case. He did not think that chronic fatigue syndrome caused the cardiovascular pathology d...

8. [2024] NZEnvC 052 Lakeside Developments 2017 Limited v Waikato District Council [pdf, 368 KB]

   ...benefit of this approach for plan users is the added clarity and guidance that policy PREC31-P1 provides with regard to growth, urban form, amenity and sense of place. The costs and benefits are set out in the table below: Benefits Costs 6 Environmental Avoids development in areas with geotechnical constraints. Increasing the housing density limits the need for sprawl which results in an efficient use of the land area. The natural environment is sought to be enhanced. En...

9. [2024] NZEnvC 214 Genesis Energy Limited v Waikato District Council [pdf, 1008 KB]

   ...of the physical structures and networks that support and provide essential services to the communities of the district. The efficient use and management of infrastructure as a physical resource is critical to the District’s economic productivity, environmental outcomes, and wellbeing of the community. The benefits of infrastructure to the functioning of the district are therefore substantial. Connected and reliable infrastructure is vital to the functioning of the District. The term �...

10. [2024] NZEnvC 271 Auckland Council v Sharma [pdf, 321 KB]

    ...3 [4] The respondents did not comply with the abatement notices and on 18 July 2022, the Council applied for enforcement orders under s314(1)(a)(i) RMA, against the respondents requiring the cessation of earthworks and the remediation of environmental damage that resulted from the unconsented earthworks at the Site. The court issued enforcement orders resolving this matter with the parties’ consent on 11 June 2024.3 [5] The Council now seeks an award of costs against the re...