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Achieve New Year’s resolutions with Car Share BOP
Tuesday, 14 December 2010, 12:55 pm | Environment Bay of Plenty
If saving money, making healthier choices and living more sustainably feature among your New Year’s resolutions for 2011, then Car Share BOP might be the website to help you achieve them. More >>
Bay of Plenty will be a festive place in Rugby World Cup
Thursday, 9 December 2010, 11:35 am | Environment Bay of Plenty
NEW Zealand’s biggest-ever festival, which will run in conjunction with Rugby World Cup 2011 (RWC), has grown even larger for the Bay of Plenty region with several events receiving funding in a Lottery Grants Board announcement this week. More >>
Tauranga to benefit from ultra-fast broadband
Tuesday, 7 December 2010, 4:35 pm | Environment Bay of Plenty
Tauranga is set to be one of the first cities New Zealand to benefit from the Government’s rollout of ultra-fast broadband (UFB), following an announcement today by the Minister for Communications and Information Technology Steven Joyce. More >>
BOP Regional Council praises kiwifruit industry
Thursday, 2 December 2010, 4:41 pm | Environment Bay of Plenty
The Bay of Plenty Regional Council has congratulated the kiwifruit industry for moving quickly to set up an organisation for the management strategy to deal with the Psa bacterial disease. The New Zealand Kiwifruit Industry Advisory Council (IAC) met ... More >>
Algal bloom no risk to improving lake health
Wednesday, 24 November 2010, 4:14 pm | Environment Bay of Plenty
An algal bloom on Rotorua’s Lake Ōkaro which led to a health warning late last week does not mean the lake is deteriorating again, according to Bay of Plenty Regional Council. A health warning was issued for Lake Ōkaro on Friday as routine summer ... More >>
Memorial on the lake for councillor
Tuesday, 23 November 2010, 9:29 am | Environment Bay of Plenty
The first anniversary of the death of school principal and Bay of Plenty Regional Councillor Hawea Vercoe has been marked with a moving ceremony on Lake Rotoiti and the blessing of a memorial garden. More >>
Councils work together on kiwifruit disease
Friday, 19 November 2010, 1:36 pm | Environment Bay of Plenty
Kiwifruit vines in the Western Bay of Plenty affected by the bacterial disease Psa are being transported to the rural TECT All Terrain Park 29km south of Tauranga on SH 36 and stockpiled in preparation for incineration. More >>
Water sustainability strategy for western BoP
Thursday, 18 November 2010, 12:30 pm | Environment Bay of Plenty
Population growth and intensification of land use are increasing demand for water in the western Bay of Plenty. More >>
Regional Council assists kiwifruit growers
Wednesday, 17 November 2010, 10:53 am | Environment Bay of Plenty
Bay of Plenty Regional Council is working closely with the Ministry of Agriculture and Forestry and the kiwifruit industry on controlling the bacterial Psa outbreak in kiwifruit vines. Nine Regional Council staff and vehicles were seconded for surveillance ... More >>
Rotorua’s Lake Ōkaro water improving
Thursday, 11 November 2010, 3:33 pm | Environment Bay of Plenty
Rotorua’s Lake Ōkaro water improving Bay of Plenty Regional Council has today welcomed the release of a report showing that water quality is improving in one of Rotorua’s lakes. A report released yesterday by Environment Minister Nick Smith ... More >>
Council staff not visiting kiwifruit orchards
Thursday, 11 November 2010, 10:28 am | Environment Bay of Plenty
Bay of Plenty Regional Council has proactively stopped staff from visiting kiwifruit orchards in the Bay while the outbreak of the bacterial kiwifruit vine disease PSA is being investigated. More >>
New regional policy resource framework
Monday, 8 November 2010, 4:35 pm | Environment Bay of Plenty
New regional policy resource framework open for comments For immediate release: Monday 8 November 2010 More >>
Wild vines under control in the Bay
Tuesday, 26 October 2010, 11:11 am | Environment Bay of Plenty
Collaboration between the Bay of Plenty Regional Council and kiwifruit growers’ representative body NZKGI is significantly reducing the number of wild kiwifruit in the Bay of Plenty. More >>
Cronin re-elected as Regional Council chair
Thursday, 21 October 2010, 3:17 pm | Environment Bay of Plenty
Bay of Plenty Regional Council has returned John Cronin as Chairman. More >>
Worm composting on a grand scale
Thursday, 14 October 2010, 10:50 am | Environment Bay of Plenty
Millions of worms are set to be put to work in the Bay of Plenty with the announcement of funding approval yesterday for a large-scale composting project. More >>
Voter turnout up for Bay councils
Monday, 11 October 2010, 2:04 pm | Environment Bay of Plenty
The number of people voting in local government elections in the Bay of Plenty has increased this year over voter numbers in 2007. More >>
Environment BOP Elections 2010 - PROGRESS RESULTS
Saturday, 9 October 2010, 4:31 pm | Environment Bay of Plenty
Please see attached release for the Tauranga City Council 2010 Triennial Elections - Progress FPP Result. Please note the Mauāo Constituency does not yet include voting from Whakatane District Council. More >>
Last chance to vote in local elections
Friday, 8 October 2010, 11:59 am | Environment Bay of Plenty
Voting for the 2010 Local Government Elections closes tomorrow at noon and from the number of votes received so far, it seems as though there will be a very similar proportion of voters as the last 2007 Election. More >>
New book showcases birds of Ōhiwa Harbour
Thursday, 7 October 2010, 10:01 am | Environment Bay of Plenty
Banded rail, white-faced heron and the bar-tailed godwit. They may sound like a gang of outlaws but these are, in fact, just some of the 40-plus birds that can be discovered in and around Ōhiwa Harbour. More >>
Māori students study their environment
Thursday, 7 October 2010, 9:24 am | Environment Bay of Plenty
Children attending total immersion Māori language schools in the Bay of Plenty now have a new tool to learn about their environment in their own language. More >>
