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Every reason to catch a bus - ECan councillor

Tuesday, 19 December 2006, 12:39 am | Environment Canterbury

Summer and the Christmas party season is a good opportunity to catch a bus to town or the beach, says Environment Canterbury councillor Nicky Wagner, chair of public passenger transport portfolio. More >>

Canterbury Region Water Resource Report

Friday, 15 December 2006, 2:09 pm | Environment Canterbury

Environment Canterbury’s State of the Canterbury Region Water Resource Report 2006 released today shows a regionally varied picture in terms of groundwater recharge and river flows. More >>

ECan welcomes Energy Strategy

Thursday, 14 December 2006, 9:35 am | Environment Canterbury

Environment Canterbury has welcomed the Government’s draft Energy Strategy, saying it takes a long-term view (to 2050) at the main areas New Zealand will have to look at to meet our energy challenges. More >>

Time to try the best bus system in Australasia

Wednesday, 13 December 2006, 1:58 pm | Environment Canterbury

Environment Canterbury councillor Nicky Wagner, chair of the public passenger transport portfolio, says this is the year for anyone living in or visiting Christchurch to try the best public transport system in Australia and New Zealand. More >>

PPCS effluent discharge consent for 10 years

Wednesday, 13 December 2006, 11:56 am | Environment Canterbury

PPCS (Primary Producers Co-Op Society) Pareora meat processing plant has been granted resource consents for its ocean effluent outfall and also for its new land-based effluent discharges for a period of ten years. More >>

Extra Metro funding required for fuel cost swings

Friday, 8 December 2006, 1:41 pm | Environment Canterbury

Environment Canterbury councillors have agreed to provide $1.1 million to the public passenger transport portfolio for the 2006/07 financial year from Public Passenger Transport Reserves to cover the unbudgeted difference in fuel price indexing caused ... More >>

Alternative funding mechanisms For Water Charges

Friday, 8 December 2006, 10:08 am | Environment Canterbury

Environment Canterbury councillors today agreed to advance planning for a uniform annual general charge (UAGC) and to investigate ways of charging water users for water management. However, the earliest these two mechanisms could be considered ... More >>

1080 - an essential tool in pest management

Thursday, 7 December 2006, 2:59 pm | Environment Canterbury

Environment Canterbury is supporting the Animal Health Board and the Department of Conservation’s application to the Environmental Risk Management Authority for the reassessment of the pesticide 1080. DOC and the AHB are seeking to continue the current ... More >>

Metro Strategy looks at bus services improvements

Thursday, 7 December 2006, 1:48 pm | Environment Canterbury

Environment Canterbury and Christchurch City Council have both today adopted the Public Passenger Transport Strategy, developed jointly by the two councils. The strategy will be implemented early next year. More >>

Hillside suburbs school bus service to continue

Thursday, 7 December 2006, 1:47 pm | Environment Canterbury

Environment Canterbury has decided to continue the operation of the Taylors Mistake and Westmorland school bus services throughout 2007. The services were in danger of discontinuing due to their low patronage figures. However with the average number ... More >>

Praise for ECan’s Clean Heat Project

Wednesday, 6 December 2006, 11:09 am | Environment Canterbury

Environment Canterbury chairman, Sir Kerry Burke, has welcomed results of an independent survey into satisfaction levels amongst people who have benefited from ECan’s Clean Heat Project. More >>

Central Plains Water Trust loses appeal

Tuesday, 5 December 2006, 9:25 am | Environment Canterbury

The High Court has released its decision on the appeal of an Environment Court declaration giving Ngai Tahu Properties Ltd (NTPL) priority to the remaining “A” allocation block water from the Waimakariri River, over Central Plains Water Trust. More >>

Appeal of sentence Steelbro diesel pollution

Monday, 4 December 2006, 10:26 am | Environment Canterbury

Environment Canterbury (the Canterbury Regional Council) has filed an appeal to the High Court against the sentence imposed by Judge Smith on Steelbro NZ Ltd on November 1, 2006 in the Christchurch District Court for a spill of a large quantity of diesel ... More >>

Praise for ECan’s Clean Heat Project

Sunday, 3 December 2006, 1:12 pm | Environment Canterbury

Environment Canterbury chairman, Sir Kerry Burke, has welcomed results of an independent survey into satisfaction levels amongst people who have benefited from ECan’s Clean Heat Project. More >>

MfE pulls plug on agrichemical disposal

Friday, 24 November 2006, 1:53 pm | Environment Canterbury

Environment Canterbury says a decision by the Ministry for the Environment not to contribute to the safe disposal of agrichemicals in Canterbury this financial year will significantly affect the level of service to the community. More >>

Clean Heat goes door-to-door in Christchurch

Wednesday, 22 November 2006, 1:22 pm | Environment Canterbury

Six students will go door-to-door today in Christchurch to help increase people’s awareness of their eligibility for Environment Canterbury Clean Heat subsidies. The household visits will run up to Christmas then resume in February for a few weeks. ... More >>

Southbridge farmer fined for illegal irrigation

Wednesday, 22 November 2006, 11:00 am | Environment Canterbury

A Southbridge, Central Canterbury farmer, David George Moorhead, was fined $10,500 after pleading guilty to taking water without resource consent in February this year. Mr Moorhead farms a mixed cropping and pasture unit in the highly allocated Rakaia-Selwyn ... More >>