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Diesel spill into Heathcote River earns conviction
Wednesday, 27 September 2006, 4:22 pm | Environment Canterbury
Steelbro NZ Ltd has been convicted in the Christchurch District Court of offences relating to the discharge of diesel on the night of February 4/5, 2005. Judge J A Smith found that the discharge of the diesel from the Steelbro site caused the contamination ... More >>
Subsidised heat pumps Timaru log-burning houses
Wednesday, 27 September 2006, 2:33 pm | Environment Canterbury
Environment Canterbury will provide $100,000 funding for 250 Timaru households with a solid fuel burner to install a heat pump. The ECan subsidy amounts to $400 per household and the subsidised price per heat pump will be $1850 through LIneTrust ... More >>
Community Planting Day at Charlesworth Wetland
Friday, 15 September 2006, 12:53 am | Environment Canterbury
Sunday morning and we all want some great outdoors: Take the dog for a run, then leave it at home, toss your spade, gardening gloves and gumboots in the car boot and head down to Charlesworth St off Ferry Rd for a community planting day on Sunday, ... More >>
High number of representation review submissions
Friday, 15 September 2006, 12:22 am | Environment Canterbury
Environment Canterbury has received around 360 submissions on the proposed future shape of its council, its representation review. The submission period closed September 13. Acting ECan chairman and representation review committee chairman Cr Robert Johnston ... More >>
Public help needed to find ecological vandals
Wednesday, 13 September 2006, 2:54 pm | Environment Canterbury
Environment Canterbury is calling for public assistance to find out who might have poured an ammonia-based fluid into Christchurch’s Curletts Rd drain two weeks ago. The pollution has subsequently killed hundreds of eels living in the drain. More >>
ECan’s Finance & Audit Committee to take more acti
Monday, 11 September 2006, 2:42 pm | Environment Canterbury
The new chair of Environment Canterbury’s Finance and Audit Committee, Prof. Bob Kirk, has indicated that the committee, under his leadership, will take on a more active role in the organisation’s financial planning. He says a new role awaits ... More >>
Biodiesel-powered buses available for schools
Monday, 11 September 2006, 2:23 pm | Environment Canterbury
The biodiesel buses will be available to Christchurch schools through two sustainable transport education programmes ‘From a to b – Billy Bus’ and ‘Beat the Rush’, developed and implemented by Environment Canterbury. More >>
Deadline Looms For Boundaries Submissions
Monday, 11 September 2006, 10:49 am | Environment Canterbury
Submissions from the public on Environment Canterbury's Representative Review draft proposal for constituency boundaries close this Wednesday, September 13, 2006 at 4pm. More >>
Biodiesel trial for Christchurch buses
Monday, 11 September 2006, 12:35 am | Environment Canterbury
Biodiesel, a cleaner fuel,is being tried as an alternative fuel on some Christchurch buses to decide whether it is a viable choice for sustainable transport options in the future. More >>
Commissioners for Central Plains Water Hearing
Friday, 8 September 2006, 2:51 pm | Environment Canterbury
Environment Canterbury’s regulation hearing committee has today appointed four commissioners to hear and decide Central Plains Water Trust’s 55 resource consent applications. The consents, notified by Environment Canterbury in June this year, ... More >>
Huge feedback response to metro strategy
Tuesday, 5 September 2006, 2:46 pm | Environment Canterbury
Environment Canterbury and the Christchurch City Council have already received over 1100 responses in less than a fortnight on their draft Metro public transport strategy for Greater Christchurch. Feedback is open all this month until October 4 via the ... More >>
New chair for ECan Finance and Audit Committee
Friday, 1 September 2006, 4:20 pm | Environment Canterbury
Environment Canterbury councillors have elected Cr Bob Kirk to chair the council’s Finance and Audit committee following the resignation of Cr Nicky Wagner from the post. More >>
Stormwater consents granted to Pegasus Town Ltd
Tuesday, 29 August 2006, 3:49 pm | Environment Canterbury
Pegasus Town Ltd has been granted 13 resource consents relating to stormwater from the new town to be built on the coast east of Woodend, north Canterbury. The consents were granted by hearing commissioners Paul Rogers (chair) and Dr Brent Cowie on behalf ... More >>
Late winter groundwater levels vary widely
Monday, 28 August 2006, 9:32 am | Environment Canterbury
Late winter groundwater levels vary widely from coast to the mountains in mid-Canterbury (ie between the Waimakariri and Ashburton rivers) More >>
Environment Canterbury welcomes water campaign
Friday, 25 August 2006, 11:50 am | Environment Canterbury
Environment Canterbury chairman Sir Kerry Burke says the national public awareness campaign on water to be launched Friday, August 25, by the Ministry for the Environment challenges everyone to think about water and what they can do to protect it. “The ... More >>
Ngai Tahu Properties Ltd granted priority
Tuesday, 22 August 2006, 2:55 pm | Environment Canterbury
The Environment Court has released its decision on Ngai Tahu Properties Ltd’s (NTPL) application for a declaration on whether it or Central Plains Water Trust has priority to the remaining A allocation block water from the Waimakariri River. More >>
Nitrate levels in well water on the rise
Friday, 18 August 2006, 4:37 pm | Environment Canterbury
Recent measurements show that nitrate nitrogen concentrations in groundwater from many wells across Canterbury have increased over the winter, say Environment Canterbury scientists. Concentrations in some wells are exceeding Ministry of Health drinking ... More >>
Young women in environment science fair awards
Monday, 14 August 2006, 10:15 am | Environment Canterbury
Young women scientists and inventors took out five of the six awards made by Environment Canterbury to school students in this year’s Canterbury Westland Science and Technology Fair. More >>
Background to Ashley River mouth
Saturday, 12 August 2006, 1:13 pm | Environment Canterbury
Environment Canterbury’s Regional Coastal Environment Plan became operative on November 30 last year. It prohibits the use of unauthorized motor vehicles in the Coastal Marine Area (CMA) in the Ashley River/Rakahuri-Saltwater Creek Estuary all ... More >>
Changes proposed to ECan’s constituency boundaries
Friday, 11 August 2006, 2:50 pm | Environment Canterbury
Changes proposed to ECan’s constituency boundaries – submissions sought Environment Canterbury has this week advertised in daily newspapers proposed changes to its elected representatives’ constituency boundaries. More >>
