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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 >>
River tracks will be dangerous after peak flows
Wednesday, 15 November 2006, 10:40 am | Environment Canterbury
Environment Canterbury’s river engineers are warning anyone using river areas that river tracks will be extremely dangerous because water on the tracks could conceal deep scour holes or tracks could be washed out altogether. More >>
Canty rivers rise fast: 4.45 pm update
Tuesday, 14 November 2006, 5:03 pm | Environment Canterbury
Canterbury civil defence and emergency management staff are on standby and in places like Selwyn District, Arthurs Pass, staff are monitoring rising rivers and ensuring households are safe. More >>
Civil Defence on alert as Canty rivers rise fast
Tuesday, 14 November 2006, 4:07 pm | Environment Canterbury
Canterbury civil defence and emergency management staff are on standby and in places like Selwyn District, Arthurs Pass, staff are hard at work monitoring rising rivers and ensuring households are safe. More >>
Nutrient loss campaign a step in right direction
Wednesday, 8 November 2006, 5:14 pm | Environment Canterbury
Environment Canterbury has welcomed the leadership shown by Federated Farmers president Charlie Pedersen in encouraging greater environmental responsibility among farmers. Mr Pedersen yesterday announced Federated Farmers’ More >>
Farmer fined $12,000 for illegally takign water
Tuesday, 7 November 2006, 12:06 am | Environment Canterbury
A Mid Canterbury farmer, Keith Bruce Townshend, was fined $12,000 after pleading guilty to taking water from a bore on his property in Valetta groundwater zone without a resource consent. The fine was imposed on November 1 in the Christchurch District ... More >>
Canterbury Resource Management Award Winners 2006
Wednesday, 1 November 2006, 1:36 pm | Environment Canterbury
Orana Wildlife Trust is this year’s supreme Canterbury environmental achiever. The Trust won this year’s Supreme Award in the Canterbury Resource Management Awards 2006. More >>
Community water meetings begin this week
Monday, 30 October 2006, 10:58 am | Environment Canterbury
Environment Canterbury scientists, planners and politicians are attending more than a dozen meetings from Kaikoura to Waimate in the next fortnight to discuss water management with local communities. More >>
Wrybill award for two Timaru students
Friday, 27 October 2006, 4:30 pm | Environment Canterbury
Two 13-year old students from Mountainview High School in Timaru are this year’s winners of Environment Canterbury’s coveted Wrybill award. The award for resource management is awarded yearly to one of the section winners of science fairs across ... More >>
Northern Star service launched
Thursday, 26 October 2006, 4:44 pm | Environment Canterbury
A new bright blue Metro bus service, named the Northern Star, takes off on Monday October 30 for people travelling to and from Rangiora, Woodend, Kaiapoi and Waikuku. The service is in response to feedback from 700 residents of the North Canterbury ... More >>
Waitaki catchment commissioner appointed
Thursday, 26 October 2006, 4:35 pm | Environment Canterbury
Environment Canterbury has appointed Professor Peter Skelton as a commissioner to decide on the notification status of more than 200 water resource consent applications in the Waitaki catchment. More >>
Environmental performance shows no improvement
Wednesday, 25 October 2006, 4:36 pm | Environment Canterbury
Dairy farmers’ environmental performance shows no improvement in Canterbury Environment Canterbury’s 2005/06 report on dairy shed effluent discharges shows no improvement on the 2004/05 figures. The 2005/06 survey shows only 48 per cent of the 541 farms ... More >>
Waipara groundwater recharge zone extended
Wednesday, 25 October 2006, 4:07 pm | Environment Canterbury
Environment Canterbury has increased the annual allocation limit for the Waipara groundwater zone to 10.7 million cubic metres per year, replacing the limit of 7.8 million cubic metres per year adopted in July. More >>
ECan decides on future representation structure
Friday, 13 October 2006, 3:48 pm | Environment Canterbury
Environment Canterbury’s role in developing its preferred representation structure was completed this week. “The council’s preferred position will now be considered by the Local Government Commission,” said ECan chairman Sir Kerry Burke. Last week, ... More >>
Community meetings early
Thursday, 12 October 2006, 4:18 pm | Environment Canterbury
The advisory group for Environment Canterbury’s Restorative Programme for Lowland Streams held their third meeting this week. More >>
Two farmers fined for illegal water takes
Wednesday, 11 October 2006, 11:42 am | Environment Canterbury
In the past fortnight, two farmers growing crops have been fined for irrigating illegally last season and a third case is still to be finalised. The completed cases were heard in front of Environment Court Judge Jeff Smith, sitting in the Christchurch District ... More >>
Farmers warned to check irrigation restrictions
Wednesday, 11 October 2006, 11:40 am | Environment Canterbury
With the potential for an El Nino or drought summer ahead, Environment Canterbury’s consents’ compliance and enforcement team is warning irrigators to stick to the conditions on their consents. More >>
Antares oil spill appeal dismissed
Tuesday, 10 October 2006, 4:40 pm | Environment Canterbury
Two overseas companies, convicted and subsequently fined $70,000 for oil pollution offences in Christchurch’s Lyttelton Harbour, have lost their appeal against their conviction and fines. More >>
