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1. Legal assistance

   ...advice. You can find an environment lawyer through the New Zealand Law Society, Resource Management Law Association or your local Community Law Centre. Court staff can advise you on the court processes, but they cannot provide you with legal advice. Environmental Legal Assistance Fund The Ministry for the Environment has an Environmental Legal Assistance Fund. Applications can be made for assistance from the Fund to help pay for legal and other professional assistance in resource management lit...

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2. Directory of Official Information 2019 D-F [pdf, 695 KB]

   ...Statutes EECA is a Crown Entity, established under the Energy Efficiency and Conservation Act 2000. It is subject to the Crown Entities Act 2004. Functions and Responsibilities EECA works to make New Zealand a better place to live – economically, environmentally and socially – through the better use of energy. It improves the energy efficiency of New Zealand homes and businesses and encourages the uptake of renewable energy. Its work is also aimed at reducing carbon emissions to he...

3. Directory of Official Information 2019 D-F [pdf, 890 KB]

   ...statutes EECA is a Crown Entity, established under the Energy Efficiency and Conservation Act 2000. It is subject to the Crown Entities Act 2004. Functions and responsibilities EECA works to make New Zealand a better place to live – economically, environmentally and socially – through the better use of energy. It improves the energy efficiency of New Zealand homes and businesses and encourages the uptake of renewable energy. Its work is also aimed at reducing carbon emissions to he...

4. [2024] NZEnvC 292 Allied Asphalt Limited [pdf, 866 KB]

   ...the Court’s determination on annual tonnages for the proposed plant and existing plant respectively. 4 Ms Petricevich, EIC at [54]. 4 enclosure is found to be necessary under Condition 36; (g) Condition 47 relating to the Mātauranga Māori Environmental Monitoring Plan (MMEMP) must be qualified by the words, “Subject to the willingness of Ngāti Kuku to contribute, …” or alternative proposed by the Regional Council. Requiring that AAL “must” prepare the plan withou...

5. OWRUG - EiC - A M Gillespie (3 Feb 2021) [pdf, 3.9 MB]

   ...Fax: (03) 477 5564 Email: bridget.irving@gallawaycookallan.co.nz Email: phil.page@gallawaycookallan.co.nz 1 PP-1035600-2-188-V6 BRIEF OF EVIDENCE OF ANNA MICHELLE GILLESPIE SUMMARY OF KEY POINTS 1. Our vision is to have an environmentally and financially sustainable farm, shared with our tamariki. 2. Highly efficient irrigation methods create significant production and environment management gains. At Two Farmers Farming we use a wide range of technologies...

6. Annexure 1 - The Law [pdf, 230 KB]

   ...requirement to be given effect to by this plan change.22 This is OWRUG’s interpretation of the NPS-FM 2020. [28] The interpretational issue OWRUG identifies is whether ‘flows and levels’ (cl 3.17(3)) are to be read consistently with ‘environmental flows and levels’ (cl 20 See NPS-FM 2020, pt 4 and RMA, s 80A. 21 Annexure 2: Scope Challenges. 22 OWRUG, opening submissions at [21]. 8 3.17(1)). It is OWRUG’s case that the phrases are not to be interpreted consi...

7. [2023] NZEnvC 164 Waikato Regional Council v Rawhiti Environmental Park Limited [pdf, 258 KB]

   Waikato Regional Council v Rawhiti Environmental Park Limited IN THE ENVIRONMENT COURT AT AUCKLAND I TE KŌTI TAIAO O AOTEAROA KI TĀMAKI MAKAURAU Decision [2023] NZEnvC 164 IN THE MATTER OF an application pursuant to s 320 of the Resource Management Act 1991 BETWEEN WAIKATO REGIONAL COUNCIL (ENV-2023-AKL-000139) Applicant AND RAWHITI ENVIRONMENTAL PARK LIMITED Respondent Court: Environment Judge MJL Dickey sitting alone under ss 309(2) and 320 of the RMA...

8. [2024] NZEnvC 032 Eyre Community Environmental Safety Society Incorporated v Canterbury Regional Council [pdf, 184 KB]

   IN THE ENVIRONMENT COURT AT AUCKLAND I TE KŌTI TAIAO O AOTEAROA KI TAMAKI MAKAURAU Decision [2024] NZEnvC 032 IN THE MATTER OF an appeal under s 120 of the Resource Management Act 1991 BETWEEN EYRE COMMUNITY ENVIRONMENTAL SAFTEY SOCIETY INCORPORATED (ENV-2014-CHC-057) Appellant AND CANTERBURY REGIONAL COUNCIL AND WAIMAKARIRI DISTRICT COUNCIL Respondents Court: Alternate Environment Judge L J Newhook Date of Correction: 13 March 2024 Date of Issue: 13 March 2024...

9. ENVC paper Guizhou Province Judges 2015 [pdf, 337 KB]

   ...(“RMA") was passed into law by the New Zealand Government in 1991. It took the place of longstanding planning legislation, and is broader than planning done in many other countries such as Britain, and parts of Australia. The RMA governs the environmental management of land, air, water, soil, and eco-systems throughout New Zealand’s land mass, and its territorial sea (out to 12 miles from the coast). It applies the concept of sustainable management of natural and physical...

10. Responsiveness to Resource Management Issues - a New Zealand perspective a paper by Commissioner K Edmonds [pdf, 244 KB]

    Australasian Conference of Planning and Environmental Courts and Tribunals (ACPECT 2016) Responsiveness to Resource Management Issues - a New Zealand perspective Commissioner Kathryn Edmonds Environment Court (NZ) Background Condition setting on resource consents is an important and often challenging part of the Resource Management Act (RMA) resource consent process in New Zealand and has been a cause for concern, not least in terms of the ability and enforceabili...