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ECan disappointed with costs ruling
Thursday, 11 December 2008, 10:57 am | Environment Canterbury
Environment Canterbury (ECan) is disappointed with the Environment Court’s costs award to the Christchurch City Council and Federated Farmers in its claim against ECan for the Banks Peninsula District Plan landscape protection hearing. The City ... More >>
Updated recreational information for Waitaki lakes
Thursday, 11 December 2008, 10:33 am | Environment Canterbury
A new pamphlet which will help the 15,000 to 20,000 people who visit the Waitaki lakes each year keep safe on water and land has been released by Waitaki Lakes Shoreline Authorities Committee. More >>
Ashburton Community Water Trust hydro application
Wednesday, 10 December 2008, 2:50 pm | Environment Canterbury
The Ashburton Community Water Trust (ACWT) and Ashburton District Council have been granted consents to use Rakaia River water to generate electricity, subject to the applicant undertaking a full summer ecological survey. More >>
Garden Clean up Recommended to Reduce Fire Hazard
Thursday, 4 December 2008, 2:09 pm | Environment Canterbury
Canterbury’s rural fire fighters are calling on residents to clean up garden and vegetation areas, following the hot early summer weather. More >>
Toxic algal growth risk in rivers or ponds
Thursday, 4 December 2008, 12:34 pm | Environment Canterbury
Warm weather and low flows in South Canterbury may produce toxic algal growths in rivers or ponds More >>
North Bank Tunnel hearing panel interim decision
Tuesday, 2 December 2008, 1:36 pm | Environment Canterbury
Meridian Energy Ltd has been granted four resource consents to divert, take, use and discharge water from the Lower Waitaki River for its North Bank Tunnel Concept hydro- electricity proposal. More >>
Mackenzie Country joint spraying operation
Friday, 28 November 2008, 11:48 am | Environment Canterbury
A major aerial spraying operation is underway to stop broom and willow infestations, along the Tekapo River, in the South Canterbury high country. More >>
ECan annual dairy shed effluent report released
Wednesday, 26 November 2008, 3:52 pm | Environment Canterbury
Environment Canterbury (ECan) today released its annual dairy shed effluent report. The report summarises the results of the previous milking season’s monitoring of effluent management at around 700 dairy farms, from Kaikoura District to the Waitaki. More >>
Excavation work results in fine.
Friday, 21 November 2008, 12:59 pm | Environment Canterbury
A North Canterbury landowner and a Christchurch based earthmoving company have been fined $10,000 and $5000 respectively, following the clearance of protection plantings and the construction of stop-banks on the Waiau River. Both defendants entered guilty ... More >>
Swimming sites show improved water quality
Thursday, 20 November 2008, 11:37 am | Environment Canterbury
Swimming water quality in Canterbury’s rivers, lakes and sea is showing signs of improvement with nine sites getting a better swimming water quality grade from Environment Canterbury (ECan) scientists in 2008 when compared to last year. More >>
Punatarakao wetland working bee
Tuesday, 18 November 2008, 2:00 pm | Environment Canterbury
A group of volunteers clearing gorse, broom and willows from a wetland near Waimate, South Canterbury, has had a major impact on an important cultural site of the Waihao Runanga. More >>
Dairy farmer fined for effluent discharge
Tuesday, 11 November 2008, 4:33 pm | Environment Canterbury
A North Canterbury dairy farmer was fined $8500 after discharging dairy effluent onto his property that ended up in the Northbrook Stream. A guilty plea was entered when the case was heard in the Christchurch District Court on September 17, 2008. More >>
March Construction fined for Avon River discharge
Friday, 7 November 2008, 5:15 pm | Environment Canterbury
A Christchurch construction company has been fined after the Environment Court found that March Construction Ltd illegally discharged dewatering water containing high levels of clay into the Avon River near the Swanns Road Bridge, Richmond, on December ... More >>
Canterbury Resource Management Award Winners 2008
Wednesday, 29 October 2008, 5:18 pm | Environment Canterbury
The Opuha Dam Water Management Project is the supreme winner of the Resource Management Awards, which were announced today by Environment Canterbury (ECan) at a ceremony in Christchurch. More >>
Water availability meetings in Canterbury
Tuesday, 28 October 2008, 12:55 pm | Environment Canterbury
Environment Canterbury (ECan) is hosting a series of community meetings to discuss the availability of water pumped from wells, rivers and streams, along with the implementation of the new national environmental standard for the measurement of water takes throughout ... More >>
River work sees “extinct” fish flock back
Friday, 24 October 2008, 4:04 pm | Environment Canterbury
Hidden away in the South Canterbury high country is an unassuming little creek that is making big waves in fishing circles and is being heralded as a major environmental success story. More >>
Hanmer Basin Bovine TB Operation
Thursday, 23 October 2008, 11:54 am | Environment Canterbury
The operation covers 12,000 ha of the Hanmer Basin including all the farmland and both the Hanmer and Waiau River’s riparian margins. More >>
Company director fined for wetland drainage
Wednesday, 22 October 2008, 2:50 pm | Environment Canterbury
A North Otago company director and his company have been fined and ordered to pay costs to Environment Canterbury (ECan) after the Environment Court found that Mervyn James McCabe had entered into a joint venture agreement to drain water from Buscott ... More >>
Aquifer tests throw doubt on water availability
Wednesday, 22 October 2008, 9:30 am | Environment Canterbury
Environment Canterbury (ECan) has received preliminary results from the leakage tests required under the commissioner’s decision to grant groundwater consents in the Selwyn-Rakaia groundwater zone. More >>
41 Groundwater consents in Selwyn-Waimakariri
Monday, 20 October 2008, 3:32 pm | Environment Canterbury
A resource consent panel has granted 41 groundwater consents in the Selwyn-Waimakariri groundwater zone, Central Canterbury. The consents are for ten years, not the 15 years sought by the applicants. Reasons for the reduced term noted by the commissioners ... More >>
