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1. [2023] NZEnvC 203 Director-General of Conservation v Marlborough District Council [pdf, 1.3 MB]

   ...warning devices or the operation of emergency pressure relief values; b) Noise generated by emergency work arising from the need to respond to an immediate health and safety risk or prevent loss or serious damage to property or minimise or prevent environmental effects; and c) Noise ordinarily generated by the arrival and departure of vessels servicing the Salmon Farms. 52. At the Compliance Manager’s request, the consent holder shall commission a report from a Suitably Qu...

2. ENVC Hearing 6Oct14 WML evidence chief Maxwell Dunn [pdf, 2.4 MB]

   ...initially in local government (Hobson County Council and Northland Regional Council) and then in private practice (Reyburn & Bryant in Whangarei, Boffa Miskell Ltd, Aurecon and ASL in Auckland). 2. Over the last twenty years I have coordinated environmental investigations into, and the seeking of resource consents for, a number of private development projects, mainly in the Auckland, Northland and Waikato regions. I have assisted city, district and regional councils with t...

3. Beef + Lamb NZ EiC J M Chrystal Agricultural Science 5 Feb 2021 [pdf, 3.8 MB]

   ...nutrient losses to water, including Overseer analysis comparing nutrient losses from different irrigation types; and 13.3 Farm management practices that can mitigate the loss of nutrients from irrigated land. 13.4 I contacted a local farm and environmental consultant and read the evidence of sheep and beef farmers Anna and Ben Gillespie. These farmers are using the management practices that I outline in my evidence, in particular the science of soil monitoring and soil water...

4. [2019] NZEnvC 032 Tauranga City Council v Minister of Education [pdf, 917 KB]

   ..."education purposes - primary school and early childhood education centre". McGuire v Hasffngs Dislricl Council [2001] NZRMA 557 (PC) at 9 per Lord Cooke ofThorndon. 3 [7] Section 6 of the notice of requirement sets out an assessment of environmental effects as required by s 168(1) RMA and by Form 18 in Schedule 1 to the Resource Management (Forms, Fees, and Procedure) Regulations 2003. This includes, in section 6.3.6, a statement headed "services contributions&qu...

5. Waitangi Tribunal - Interim report on the MV Rena and Motiti Island claims [pdf, 2.2 MB]

   ...to the claimants, who are Māori living on or affiliating to Motiti Island . Motiti Māori are an isolated island community in an especially vulnerable position . They will bear the brunt of what seem likely to be significant adverse cultural and environmental effects if the wreck is allowed to remain on the reef . It is in this light that we consider that the Crown’s consultation with them has been neither robust nor meaningful . The consultation process has neither adequately informed...

6. People remanded and offending on bail June 2023 [xlsx, 103 KB]

   ...offences 3,148 3,007 2,987 2,980 2,912 2,788 2,331 2,490 1,836 1,884 5% 5% 5% 5% 5% 5% 4% 5% 4% 4% Bail 11: Prohibited and regulated weapons and explosives offences 1,281 1,243 1,283 1,318 1,258 1,349 1,246 1,430 1,235 1,341 2% 2% 2% 2% 2% 2% 2% 3% 3% 3% Bail 12: Property damage and environmental pollution 2,737 2,640 2,791 2,567 2,447 2,315 1,990 2,123 1,508 1,654 4% 4% 5% 4% 4% 4% 4% 4% 3% 3% Bail 13: Public order offences 2,033 1,685 1,349 1,433 1,410 1,236 1,069 1,244 1,068 1,184 3% 3% 2...

7. [2024] NZEnvC 156 New Zealand Steel Limited v Auckland Council [pdf, 830 KB]

   ...including fugitive emissions, on a map showing the location of each source. b. Describe how the management and operational procedures, methodologies, and contingency plans necessary to comply with the conditions of this consent are implemented by an Environmental Management System (compliant with ISO 14001 or equivalent) that includes: i. Methods and/or procedures to minimise air discharges as far as practicable, including all measures specified by Condition 14. ii. Methods and/or proced...

8. ENV-2016-AKL-000xxx Terra Nova Planning Limited v Auckland Council [pdf, 2.3 MB]

   ...appealed are likely to significantly reduce the protection and restoration of indigenous biodiversity in the Auckland region. ii. The Council has failed to undertake an adequate assessment of the provisions, including the benefits and costs of the environmental, economic, Page 5 Appeal template – section 156(1) or 156(3) LGATPA appeals social and cultural effects that are anticipated from the implementation of the provisions, as required by sections 32 and 32AA of the RMA...

9. [2022] NZEnvC 202 Manawatu-Whanganui Regional Council v Paranui Organics (2006) Ltd [pdf, 5.6 MB]

   ...water; • Condition 7 which provides that ... The composting of organic material and leachate collection and stotage facilities shall not result in odour that in the opinion of the Manawatu- 3 \v'anganui Regional Council's of [sic] environmental protection officer is offensive at or beyond the property boundary. Advice note: Manawatu-\v'anganui Regional Council staff will assess complaints about objectionable odour beyond the property boundaries in terms of wh...

10. 2021-05-25 JWS - 4-6 May 2021 as amended 21 May 2021 [pdf, 518 KB]

    ...been used in the past; (2) Requiring minimum flow, residual flow or take cessation conditions on existing consents to be carried over as consent conditions on any consents that replace existing water permits; and (3) Reducing the risk of further environmental degradation and unforeseen economic hardship for water users, by discouraging further investment in irrigation expansion or land use intensification until a new NPS-FM 2020 compliance planning framework has bene introduced (tha...