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The Latest Breaking News from Environment Court

Surprise at Canterbury council’s ‘misleading’ court withdrawal

A court case on river protection has been halted but might yet be revived

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Environment Minister wades into river battle

David Parker intervenes in an Environment Court case over a water conservation order

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Regional council admits it’s been flying blind on Rakaia

Evidence filed in the Environment Court confirms there’s been scant monitoring of a protected river

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Court puts river protection case on fast-track

Regional council accused of washing its hands of enforcing a water conservation order

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Parker's office says slash an issue for Nash

On the day Cyclone Gabrielle was smashing into Tairāwhiti, Environment Minister David Parker was already passing the buck. Aaron Smale reports.

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Helipad fight: 2023 will be crucial, protestors say

As private helipads (and applications for them) proliferate around Auckland and two Hauraki Gulf islands, the big question is why city officials seem so reluctant to do anything to stop them.

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Power discord: The battle over NZ’s biggest water take

NZ’s largest hydro power station wrestles with a nationally significant river

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Court approves high-cost, high-rise Drury town centre after council appeal

Auckland Council appealed its own decision to rezone the area earlier this year.

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Pakiri sand miner offers a last-minute concession

At the end of a weeks-long resource management hearing, dredging company McCallums has volunteered a reduction in sand volumes and a hike in royalties as it ask for its licences to be renewed.

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Coal mine appeals hard-hitting decision on closure and remediation

A decision denying approval to shut down and rehabilitate a Canterbury coal mine will be contested in the Environment Court.

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Environment Court cancellation threatens delays to port automation process

The berth extension and the automation projects are separate works, but the port says the construction of the two needs to be coordinated.

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Could King Salmon decision be cast aside?

A Supreme Court case threatens one of the country’s most important environment-related precedents

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Drury redevelopment plans get the green light, but legal battle could be brewing

Plans by three of NZ’s biggest developers to rezone 330 hectares of land in Drury has the go ahead. But a legal dispute over the area’s future growth could be on the cards.

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Warning over Mackenzie development ‘goldrush’

Two years after calls for urgent action, a council is still working on Mackenzie landscape protection

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High Court rules against council on water for dairy sheds

Does it matter that water from a community scheme is used to wash dairy sheds? Yes, it turns out.

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