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1. [2022] NZEnvC 069 Otago Regional Council [pdf, 356 KB]

   ...purpose or scope of PC1. The s32 report states: The Waste Plan was made operative in 1997 and has not been amended or reviewed under section 79 of the RMA since that time. As a result, it has become out of date with current expectations regarding environmental management. The entirety of the Waste Plan will be reviewed alongside the Water Plan in preparation of a new LWRP. PC1 is an interim measure to address two pressing issues with the existing Waste Plan provisions in order t...

2. [2022] NZEnvC 078 Whangarei District Council v Sustainable Solvents Groups Limited [pdf, 316 KB]

   ...and clean- up the mess the Respondents had created. WDC submit that this common enterprise, 2 These costs total $3,053,090.55. [4] [5] [6] [7] 4 while perhaps not a joint venture in a legal sense, cannot excuse one party from the environmental consequences which flow from the common enterprise that the parties undertaking such venture have created. Fourth, Fifth and Sixth Respondents position The Fourth, Fifth and Sixth Respondents oppose the application on that basi...

3. 2022-04-29 ORC PC1 - [2022] NZEnvC 69 - Scope Decision on Landfills [pdf, 335 KB]

   ...purpose or scope of PC1. The s32 report states: The Waste Plan was made operative in 1997 and has not been amended or reviewed under section 79 of the RMA since that time. As a result, it has become out of date with current expectations regarding environmental management. The entirety of the Waste Plan will be reviewed alongside the Water Plan in preparation of a new LWRP. PC1 is an interim measure to address two pressing issues with the existing Waste Plan provisions in order t...

4. 20.-Evidence-of-Mr-Kathryn-Halder-Contaminated-Land.PDF [PDF, 437 KB]

   ...have 20 years of consulting experience in contaminated land, with most of this having been carried out in New Zealand. 3. I prepared Technical Assessment I: Contaminated Land (Technical Assessment I) 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)...

5. 21.-Evidence-of-Mr-Michael-Smith-Noise-and-Vibration.PDF [PDF, 1.4 MB]

   ...previously been employed by multi-disciplinary firms AECOM and URS, and specialist acoustics firm Marshall Day Acoustics. 3. I prepared1 Technical Assessment B: Noise and Vibration (Technical Assessment B) 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 (G...

6. 2021-03-24 Transcript up to end of day 10 [pdf, 3.8 MB]

   ................................................................................................. 846 CROSS-EXAMINATION: MR MAW ................................................................................................ 852 EXHIBIT FISH AND GAME 1 PRODUCED – PROPOSED NATIONAL ENVIRONMENTAL STANDARDS ON ECOLOGICAL FLOWS AND WATER LEVELS DISCUSSION DOCUMENT ................................................................................................................................ 86...

7. OWRUG - EiC - M A Hickey - Geogrpahy/Hydrology (4 Feb 2021) [pdf, 698 KB]

   ...Act (1991) (RMA) consents post 2021. 6. Over the last 15 years I have made or reviewed over 150 technical recommendations for residual flow conditions to protect the ecological values at individual takes points across Otago; worked on setting environmental flows and allocation limits for a number of Otago’s rivers; as well as water quantity policy development for the Regional Plan: Water for Otago (RPW), specifically around managing the transition from deemed permits to RMA co...

8. [2019] NZEnvC 125 Schmuck v Northland Regional Council [pdf, 2.7 MB]

   ...a flat yard, with slipway rails leading to the water to enable boats to be winched up to the yard. [7] Mr Schmuck prepared and filed his own application for renewal of discharge consents and a copy of supporting document addressed Assessment of Environmental Effects is attached to that application. The information on the Council form is minimalistic i.e. 18- year term resource consent for renewal of all current discharge consents CON200607914 (10-15) so that they coincide with the re...

9. Setter v Hewitt - Lots 1 & 4 of DP 374627 and Lot 3 DP 374627 (2010) 5 Takitimu MB 239 (5 TKT 239) [pdf, 72 KB]

   ...water tables and increasing the chance of slipping or slumping of the hill; and increased storm water runoff which has the potential to erode their land and increase drainage problems. [8] The Hewitt’s concerns are focussed on the potential environmental effects the new roadway may have on their property. These concerns are in my view better dealt with in terms of the Central Hawke’s Bay District Council approvals Mr Setter will need to obtain. Supporting evidence fo...

10. G Eckhoff - SoE - 21 April 2021.pdf [pdf, 396 KB]

    ...slot By way of introduction I have no vested or conflict of interest although I do trickle irrigate new t rees and keep my lawn green, as fire is an ever present risk . That water comes from the Falls dam. I have never been a footsoldier for the environmental movement yet as a farmer I am proud of the fact that I fenced off an area of the Waimea stream in northern Southland in the late 1970s As an MP I wrote a press release in 2000 suggesting a single hot wire and a waratah to keep...