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Planting Gets A Year Ahead At New Tutira Block
Friday, 28 August 2009, 12:37 pm | Hawkes Bay Regional Council
Hawke’s Bay Regional Council has kick started its carbon and forestry investment at its new Tutira property by planting 110,000 eucalypts over 102 hectares. More >>
Hawke’s Bay Environmental Awards Judging Underway
Tuesday, 18 August 2009, 11:52 am | Hawkes Bay Regional Council
The Hawke’s Bay Environmental Awards 2009 judging has begun and judges will look at the 13 entries received from people and environmental projects around the region. Entries this year include home-based environmental education, bush enhancement, school ... More >>
Air Quality – Hastings & Napier
Tuesday, 11 August 2009, 4:29 pm | Hawkes Bay Regional Council
The exceedences were on July 4 in both Hastings and Napier, July 16 in Napier, July 17 & 27 in Hastings and July 28 in both Hastings and Napier. Hawke’s Bay Regional Council monitors air quality for the National Environmental Standard (NES) for particulate ... More >>
Shoeless for Telethon Appeal
Friday, 7 August 2009, 10:21 am | Hawkes Bay Regional Council
Socks, jandals, slippers and maybe even bare feet will be standard issue at Hawke’s Bay Regional Council today to help raise funds for this weekend’s Big Night In Telethon appeal. More >>
Independent Commissioners for Consents Hearing
Thursday, 23 July 2009, 4:51 pm | Hawkes Bay Regional Council
Hawke’s Bay Regional Council is appointing two independent commissioners to a Hearing Panel to hear resource consent applications lodged by Williams, Mexted and Malherbe for a proposed development at Mahanga (north of Wairoa). More >>
FREE Rural AGRICHEMICAL Collection
Thursday, 16 July 2009, 12:03 pm | Hawkes Bay Regional Council
The Hawke’s Bay Regional Council’s next Unwanted Agrichemical collection will be held from 17-19 August 2009. The Regional Council will collect your unwanted agrichemicals from your house or farm and dispose of them safely. Fred King, Hazardous Waste Officer ... More >>
Irrigation Bans Finally Lifted
Tuesday, 7 July 2009, 5:47 pm | Hawkes Bay Regional Council
The last irrigation bans on two Hawke’s Bay streams were lifted on Monday 6 July, after a dry summer and autumn. More >>
Heating Package A Plus For Hawke’s Bay Homes
Wednesday, 1 July 2009, 2:50 pm | Hawkes Bay Regional Council
Hawke’s Bay Regional Council has welcomed the Government’s new “Warm Up New Zealand: Heat Smart” scheme, and will be one of the first councils to sign up to the scheme helping homeowners to upgrade home insulation and heating. More >>
Geisha Salvage Completed
Friday, 19 June 2009, 2:53 pm | Hawkes Bay Regional Council
Hawke’s Bay Regional Council says the salvage of theGeisha, which went aground at Waimarama on Saturday June 13 after experiencing engine trouble, has been completed successfully. More >>
Oil Removed from Abandoned Vessel
Wednesday, 17 June 2009, 10:07 am | Hawkes Bay Regional Council
Hawke’s Bay Regional Council has removed all available oil from the vessel ‘Geisha’ which was abandoned off the coast, south of cape Kidnappers, during the night of Friday 12 June 2009. ‘Geisha’ was ashore between Ocean Beach and Waimarama. The ... More >>
Council at Top of RMA Survey
Friday, 12 June 2009, 12:54 pm | Hawkes Bay Regional Council
Hawke's Bay Regional Council has achieved a high level of compliance with the Resource Management Act by processing 96% of resource consent applications on time. More >>
Air Quality Review Welcomed
Wednesday, 10 June 2009, 4:48 pm | Hawkes Bay Regional Council
Hawke’s Bay Regional Council has welcomed the announcement that New Zealand’s air quality standards will be reviewed. The Minister for the Environment, Hon Nick Smith, today released the terms of reference and the technical advisory group to ... More >>
Hawke’s Bay Environmental Awards 2009 Open
Monday, 8 June 2009, 5:24 pm | Hawkes Bay Regional Council
The 2009 Hawke’s Bay Environmental Awards are open for entries from people involved in projects to enhance the environment and protect natural resources in the region. The closing date is 15 July. More >>
New Water Information Service
Friday, 5 June 2009, 1:01 pm | Hawkes Bay Regional Council
Irrigators, other consented water users and the public will be able to get faster, more accurate and transparent information on water use when a new water information services unit is set up by Hawke'sBay Regional Council. The Regional Council has ... More >>
Congratulations to Taradale Soil Specialist
Friday, 5 June 2009, 9:49 am | Hawkes Bay Regional Council
Taradale land specialist, Garth Eyles, is being congratulated on his achievement in receiving a Green Ribbon Award after being presented with his award by the Minister for the Environment, Hon Nick Smith at a ceremony at Parliament last night. Garth ... More >>
Better Water Data From Irrigators
Tuesday, 19 May 2009, 3:51 pm | Hawkes Bay Regional Council
Over the very dry summer and autumn, Hawke’s Bay Regional Council has taken a tougher stance on those irrigators who have not provided water take data on time - with good results. Thirty nine abatement notices have been issued this irrigation season to ... More >>
Port Gets Top Safety Approval
Wednesday, 13 May 2009, 5:21 pm | Hawkes Bay Regional Council
Maritime NZ has recently approved the Navigational Safety Management System (NSMS) for the Napier Pilotage Area, making the Port of Napier Ltd one of only four approved SMS ports in the country. More >>
Waipawa River Bans Lifted
Monday, 4 May 2009, 2:20 pm | Hawkes Bay Regional Council
Following the rain in the last few days, Hawke's Bay Regional Council has been able to lift all bans on the Waipawa River for water takes for irrigation. More >>
Youth Environment Forum On
Thursday, 30 April 2009, 4:19 pm | Hawkes Bay Regional Council
A two day environmental forum for secondarystudents has been organised by the HB Youth Environment Council and will be held nearHavelock North on Friday 1 and Saturday 2 May. More >>
Irrigation Bans Back on Ngaruroro River
Thursday, 23 April 2009, 5:02 pm | Hawkes Bay Regional Council
The rain early this week has not had a lasting impact on the Ngaruroro River. Irrigation bans that were lifted earlier in the week after a day of steady rain, are now back on takes at the Whanawhana monitoring site and on the low flow limit of 5000 litres/sec ... More >>
