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1. The Crown Minerals (Decommssioning and other Matters) Bill [pdf, 175 KB]

   ...explains that New Zealand’s petroleum sector is maturing, and an increasing number of petroleum fields are nearing the end of their economic lives and will soon require decommissioning. The costs of decommissioning are described as substantial and the environmental effects and health and safety risks of failing to decommission can be significant. 6. There is currently no explicit statutory obligation to decommission under the Act, which means that there is a lack of clarity about permi...

2. [2023] NZEnvC 120 Dewhirst v Canterbury Regional Council [pdf, 4.5 MB]

   ...to do the Remediation and Enhancement Works; (b) the passage of time had led the respondent to consider that the Remediation and Enhancement Works required by sub-clauses C(e)(ii)-(v) inclusive of the Amended Order were unlikely to provide the environmental benefits first envisaged, but that it would be more appropriate to let natural processes continue to operate without being restrained by those works; (c) due to the existing authorisations held by the respondent, it was better...

3. TN v U Ltd [2024] NZDT 89 (7 February 2024) [pdf, 149 KB]

   ...asbestos (it had been identified by tests completed by [Asbestos testing company] in April 2014, before earthquake damage work was completed). 2. After the work was completed TN contacted his insurer and testing, completed on 1 December 2017 by [Environmental testing company], confirmed trace levels of asbestos fibres were found in the bedroom where the window was installed and in the hallway of the house. Asbestos fibres were also found in the ground (in the garden bed) beneath wh...

4. 2021-03-23 Transcript (up to Mr McIndoe on day 10) [pdf, 3.4 MB]

   ................................................................................................. 779 CROSS-EXAMINATION: MR MAW ................................................................................................ 785 EXHIBIT FISH AND GAME 1 PRODUCED – PROPOSED NATIONAL ENVIRONMENTAL STANDARDS ON ECOLOGICAL FLOWS AND WATER LEVELS DISCUSSION DOCUMENT ................................................................................................................................ 79...

5. 2021-04-12 Transcript (up to end of day 15) [pdf, 1.1 MB]

   ...were saying at the end. So I’ve asked you a question about the controlled 25 activity pathway and what that may be capable of achieving over the short term, and I wasn’t clear about your answer. A. I don’t think it can achieve anything environmentally or from an efficiency perspective. I think it can only be a simple process, or it should only be a simple process rollover, because if you require anything else, that can 30 require on farm changes, which requires investment f...

6. Transcript - Hearing - PC7 - 12 April 2021 [pdf, 1.1 MB]

   ...were saying at the end. So I’ve asked you a question about the controlled 25 activity pathway and what that may be capable of achieving over the short term, and I wasn’t clear about your answer. A. I don’t think it can achieve anything environmentally or from an efficiency perspective. I think it can only be a simple process, or it should only be a simple process rollover, because if you require anything else, that can 30 require on farm changes, which requires investment f...

7. ENV-2016-CHC-000071 Application for Declarations [pdf, 3.6 MB]

   BEFORE THE ENVIRONMENT COURT ENV-2016- IN THE MATTER AND IN THE MATTER BETWEEN AND of the Resource Management Act 1991 of an application for declarations under Part 12 of the Act ENVIRONMENTAL DEFENCE SOCIETY INCORPORATED Applicant MACKENZIE DISTRICT COUNCIL Respondent APPLICATION FOR DECLARATIONS BY ENVIRONMENTAL DEFENCE SOCIETY INCORPORATED 17 November 2016 Counsel Acting: R B Enright / MCWright PO Box 91736 Victoria Street West Auckland 1142 E: madeleine@ed...

8. Final-Technical-Assessment-C-Air-Quality.pdf [pdf, 5.4 MB]

   ...The release of a substance (eg, an air pollutant) from a source, (eg, transport, industry or domestic fires). Emissions are often expressed in units per activity (eg, grams per kilometre driven g/km or grams per kilogram fuel burnt g/kg). ESR Environmental and Social Responsibility. EWS Electronic Weather Station. Exceedance An occasion when the concentration of an air pollutant exceeds a standard or permissible measurement. Existing Air Quality Existing air quality is the ai...

9. [2018] NZEnvC 088 Clearwater Mussels Limited v Marlborough District Council [pdf, 21 MB]

   ...Edmonds Environment Commissioner J A Hodges Hearing: at Christchurch on 4-7 December 2017 Appearances: Q Davies and A Hills for the appellant M Radich and S Wadworth for the respondent J Ironside for Friends of Nelson Haven and Tasman Bay and Environmental Defence Society C Marchant in person M Marchant for the Marchant Family and others Date of Decision : 8 June 2018 Date of Issue: 8 June 2018 INTERIM DECISION OF THE ENVIRONMENT COURT A: The appeal is declined and the decisi...

10. 14.-Evidence-of-Dr-Jack-McConchie-Hydrology-Flooding-Groundwater-and-Water-Abstraction.PDF [PDF, 5 MB]

    ...Allen McConchie. 2. I am the Technical Director (Hydrology & Geomorphology) at SLR Consulting (NZ). 3. I prepared Technical Assessment G: Hydrogeology and Groundwater (Technical Assessment G) as part of Volume IV of the Assessment of Environmental Effects (AEE), which accompanied the application for resource consents and notices of requirement for designations (NoRs) lodged with Manawatū–Whanganui Regional Council (Horizons), Greater Wellington Regional Council (GWRC),...