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1. ENV-2016-CHC-000071 Affirmation of Ms Jennifer Miller [pdf, 2.9 MB]

   ...13. In 2009, Forest & Bird made submissions on resource consent applications to the Canterbury Regional Council (ECan) on applications to take and use water in the Upper Waitaki, including applications within the Mackenzie Basin. The water permits have been sought for intensive farming purposes. Our concerns around the water permit applications focused on: 13.1 the potential adverse effect increased irrigation and the resultant decrease in water quality and water quantity woul...

2. 2021-04-15 HortNZ - ORC PC7 - Opening Submissions [pdf, 111 KB]

   ...Horticulture New Zealand (HortNZ) supports the transitional intent and planning framework of Plan Change 7 to the Regional Plan: Water for Otago (PC7). PC7 is intended to provide an interim regulatory framework for the replacement of expiring deemed permits and other expiring water permits while the Otago Land and Water Regional Plan (LWRP) is developed and becomes operative.1 2. It is vital that horticultural growers in the Otago Region have enough certainty of water supply...

3. FD, GN, LN, UT, NE, & NP v BQ Ltd [2022] NZDT 165 (18 October 2022) [pdf, 162 KB]

   ...the walk. The applicants chose not to pay the extra. At the time of booking, BQ did not make the applicants aware by its company website that the planned walk could not be undertaken at that time because the Department of Conservation did not permit guided tours to travel the mountain height that the parties expected the walk to. The applicants’ claim is that if BQ had made them aware of this they would have paid the extra fee for the refundable option. The walk was to take pla...

4. Fish & Game - B Farrell - JWS 4-6 May 2021 - tracked changes [pdf, 829 KB]

   ...to a new land and freshwater management regime that gives full effect to the NPS-FM 2020 by establishing an interim planning framework for the cost-effective and efficient assessment of resource consent applications for the replacement of deemed permits and for the take and use of freshwater. [16] PC7 intends to achieve this purpose by providing: (1) strong policy direction for limiting the consent duration for resource consents to take and use water;

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

   ...yes they’re important or yes there will be chaos or whatever, but we are really trying to dig into what is known if anything about the exercise of those priorities. It seems 25 to us that the government had a transitional provision for deemed permits for a period of 30 years, which is to finally expire on 1 October 2021 – that is obviously a matter of submission – but that the government had assumed that, when it did expire, that there would be a fit-for-purpose water plan, w...

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

   ...yes they’re important or yes there will be chaos or whatever, but we are really trying to dig into what is known if anything about the exercise of those priorities. It seems 25 to us that the government had a transitional provision for deemed permits for a period of 30 years, which is to finally expire on 1 October 2021 – that is obviously a matter of submission – but that the government had assumed that, when it did expire, that there would be a fit-for-purpose water plan, w...

7. [2024] NZEnvC 105 Capil Grove Limited v Southland Regional Council [pdf, 2.4 MB]

   ...Court, by consent, orders that: (1) the following resource consents are granted subject to the conditions set out in Appendices A–D attached to and forming part of this determination: 1 Resource Management Act 1991. 2 (a) a discharge permit to discharge agricultural effluent to land from milking up to 640 cows and housing up to 840 cows in winter barns (AUTH-20222055-01); (b) a water permit to take up to 85,800 litres per day of groundwater and use it for stock dri...

8. LL v Sun [2019] NZIACDT 3 (30 January 2019) [pdf, 253 KB]

   ...After hearing a complaint, the Tribunal may dismiss it, uphold it but take no further action, or uphold it and impose one or more sanctions.4 [43] The sanctions that may be imposed by the Tribunal are set out in the Act.5 It may also suspend a licence pending the outcome of a complaint.6 [44] It is the civil standard of proof, the balance of probabilities, that is applicable in professional disciplinary proceedings. However, the quality of the evidence required to meet that standa...

9. Gay and Lesbian Clergy Anti-Discrimination Society v Bishop of Auckland [2013] NZHRRT 36 [pdf, 163 KB]

   ...provided they elect to be celibate. If any such candidate is in a long term committed relationship he or she would not “be chaste”. Neither would a heterosexual candidate living in a de facto relationship. The Archbishop has in fact suspended the licence of an ordained minister because the individual had entered into a de facto relationship. He has also decided very early in the discernment process not to proceed with the discernment of vocation of a person who was living in a de...

10. [2022] NZEnvC 165 Wilson Parking Limited v Christchurch City Council [pdf, 4.9 MB]

    ...06.08.2020 06.08.2022 12.10.2020 22.10.2020 15.02.2022 16.02.2022 21.02.2022 09.08.2022 I Information has been derived from various organisations, including Environment Canterbury and the Canterbury Maps partners. Boundary information is derived under licence from LINZ Digital Cadastral Database (Crown Copyright Reserved). Environment Canterbury and the Canterbury Maps partners do not give and expressly disclaim any warranty as to the accuracy or completeness of the information or its fitness...