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Changes To Groundwater Allocation, Public Meetings
Monday, 2 July 2007, 1:28 pm | Environment Canterbury
Environment Canterbury has made changes to some of its groundwater zones. This has resulted from the need to incorporate new groundwater allocation limits into its proposed Natural Resources Regional Plan (NRRP). More >>
Waitaki Consent Applications Hearing Rationale
Thursday, 28 June 2007, 3:48 pm | Environment Canterbury
The first stage of hearings for more than 200 resource consent applications for water in the Waitaki catchment is scheduled to begin on August 13 in Timaru. More >>
Waitaki Consent Notification Decisions Available
Thursday, 28 June 2007, 3:45 pm | Environment Canterbury
Environment Canterbury's commissioner, Peter Skelton, has released his decision on the notification status of 178 of more than 200 applications to take water in the Waitaki catchment. Most of the applications will be publicly notified. More >>
Nth Bank Tunnel Hydro & Hunter Downs Scheme Update
Thursday, 28 June 2007, 3:43 pm | Environment Canterbury
Submissions on two Waitaki catchment proposals for a hydro scheme and an irrigation scheme closed this week with 814 submissions received. Around 450 of these have requested to be in heard in person. More >>
Environment Canterbury (ECan) Rates Finalised
Thursday, 28 June 2007, 3:14 pm | Environment Canterbury
ECan today finalised its rates for the 2007/08 year. Thanks to savings made across a number of work/portfolio areas, the general rates rise is 6.5% down from 7.2% forecast in the Long Term Council Community Plan (LTCCP). More >>
Navigation rule changes proposed, feedback sought
Thursday, 28 June 2007, 2:51 pm | Environment Canterbury
Environment Canterbury is considering several changes to the region's navigation safety bylaws. These apply to all inland lakes and rivers where people operate boats, dinghies or jet-skis, and a number of coastal areas. The region runs from north of ... More >>
Give way to buses: Proposal supported by RLTC
Friday, 22 June 2007, 12:53 am | Environment Canterbury
The Regional Land Transport Committee (RLTC) has agreed to support, in principle, a change to the road rules that would require motorists to give way to buses, especially when leaving bus stops. The passenger transport industry representative on the committee, ... More >>
Changes In Coastal Occupation Rules -- ECan
Thursday, 21 June 2007, 2:08 pm | Environment Canterbury
Environment Canterbury is about to notify proposed changes to part of its Regional Coastal Environment Plan. The plan change would make all structures, currently lawfully occupying the Coastal Marine Area, permitted activities. More >>
Environment Canterbury (ECan) Adopts Annual Plan
Wednesday, 20 June 2007, 6:53 pm | Environment Canterbury
Environment Canterbury (ECan) today struck its rates for the 2007/08 year. Thanks to savings made across a number of work/portfolio areas, the general rates rise is 6.5% down from 7.2% forecast. More >>
Replacement appliances not limited to pellet fires
Wednesday, 20 June 2007, 4:44 pm | Environment Canterbury
Homeowners in Rangiora and Kaiapoi will eventually have to replace their existing open fires or non complying logburners—but they are likely to have a wide range of solid fuel and non-solid fuel appliances to choose from. Pollution guidelines ... More >>
Lake Tekapo Soil Conservation Meeting
Tuesday, 19 June 2007, 12:16 am | Environment Canterbury
Environment Canterbury is currently reviewing the Lake Tekapo Soil Conservation Reserve Management Plan and we recently asked for the public's views on the future use of the reserve. More >>
Ingenious Ingenium Award For Kaikoura Floodwall
Thursday, 14 June 2007, 2:39 pm | Environment Canterbury
Enviornmnet Canterbury's Lyell Creek Floodwall in Kaikoura has won the 2007 Ingenium Award for Engineering Excellence for projects under $1 million. More >>
Birdlings Flat sewage discharge consents granted
Monday, 11 June 2007, 1:21 pm | Environment Canterbury
Environment Canterbury has issued sewage discharge consents with a duration of 15 years to a group of nine landowners in a new subdivision in Birdlings Flat, near Banks Peninsula. Some of the landholders have been awaiting resource consents for ... More >>
Hanmer air pollution monitor set up
Monday, 11 June 2007, 10:47 am | Environment Canterbury
A temporary air quality monitoring station has been set up by Environment Canterbury in Hanmer, North Canterbury. More >>
Temuka air pollution monitor set up
Friday, 8 June 2007, 4:59 pm | Environment Canterbury
A temporary air quality monitoring station has been set up by Environment Canterbury in Temuka, South Canterbury. More >>
Making hazardous site information available
Friday, 1 June 2007, 12:45 am | Environment Canterbury
Environment Canterbury contaminated sites officers have begun a ten-year process of identifying sites across the region which have been previously associated with the use, storage and disposal of hazardous substances. The district they are working ... More >>
Review of Rakaia-Selwyn groundwater consent
Thursday, 31 May 2007, 1:47 pm | Environment Canterbury
Environment Canterbury has taken the first steps towards its review of water consents in the Rakaia-Selwyn groundwater zone. This is a significant part of its Restorative Programme for Lowland Streams. The first review notices will be sent out at the end ... More >>
Long-standing councillor to retire from local govt
Tuesday, 29 May 2007, 4:16 pm | Environment Canterbury
An Environment Canterbury councillor who has spent 27 years in local government has announced she will not stand at this year’s elections. Cr Judy Waters has been an ECan councillor since the regional council’s inception in 1989 and before that ... More >>
ECan reaction to Pest Enterprises receivership
Tuesday, 22 May 2007, 5:16 pm | Environment Canterbury
Environment Canterbury, sole shareholder of the company Target Pest Enterprises Limited (TPE), has appointed a receiver to administer the affairs of the council-controlled trading organisation. More >>
How healthy is the estuary and its catchment?
Tuesday, 22 May 2007, 5:10 pm | Environment Canterbury
Three Canterbury University students who researched aspects of the estuary and its catchment over the summer period will be presenting their results publicly next Monday. The research by Sarah Dodson, Kimberly Jupp and Phil Burge was sponsored by Environment ... More >>
