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Road To Zero Action Plan Backed By Regional Committee
Tuesday, 29 September 2020, 6:56 pm | Waikato Regional Council
A high-level action plan to reduce the region’s road-related fatalities and serious injury crashes has been endorsed by Waikato’s regional transport committee. Committee chair and Waikato regional councillor Hugh Vercoe said transport safety remains an ... More >>
Regional Plan Change To Update Taupō Overseer Rules Approved
Tuesday, 29 September 2020, 9:17 am | Waikato Regional Council
The Minister for the Environment has signed off a change to the Waikato Regional Plan which allows the latest version of Overseer to be used by Taupō farmers. The change to Chapter 3.10 of the Waikato Regional Plan allows the use of the latest ... More >>
Waikato Regional Council To Withdraw Appeal On Plan Change
Thursday, 24 September 2020, 4:40 pm | Waikato Regional Council
Waikato Regional Council will withdraw its Environment Court appeal on technical implementation issues in the Healthy Rivers/Wai Ora plan change. Council chair Russ Rimmington said following the meeting that withdrawing the appeal was a “no-brainer” ... More >>
Coromandel’s New Maritime Officer Builds Presence In Community
Wednesday, 23 September 2020, 3:07 pm | Waikato Regional Council
Waikato Regional Council’s new maritime officer for Thames and Coromandel knows only too well how things can quickly go wrong for boaties out on the water. Rod Edwards, who started in his new role at the regional council this month, was a volunteer for ... More >>
Greenhouse Gases – What Are They And How Can We Mitigate?
Wednesday, 16 September 2020, 5:50 am | Waikato Regional Council
By Bala Tikkisetty Climate change affects all of us and reducing greenhouse gas emissions must be a priority. Carbon dioxide (CO2), methane (CH4) and nitrous oxide (N2O) are the three main greenhouse gases, affecting the climate by warming the planet. ... More >>
Farmers Asked To Keep Eye Out For Destructive Farm Pest
Thursday, 10 September 2020, 8:35 am | Waikato Regional Council
Landowners are being asked to report rook sightings for targeted pest control to prevent the wary invasive, big black bird from becoming a problem on farms. It’s a good time of the year to start seeing rooks as it’s breeding season, which is ... More >>
Watercare Granted Two Consents For Waikato River Water
Wednesday, 9 September 2020, 8:28 pm | Waikato Regional Council
Two consents granted by Waikato Regional Council mean Watercare can continue to maximise the amount of water it can treat for Aucklanders now and into the future. In the past week Waikato Regional Council, Watercare, Auckland Council and Waikato-Tainui ... More >>
$120,000 For Community “severely” Impacted By Bad Smell
Tuesday, 8 September 2020, 1:53 pm | Waikato Regional Council
A Waikato dairy processing company has been convicted and fined $137,500 for discharging objectionable odour that has caused ‘severe’ impacts on a local community and ordered to place $120,000 in trust for the community as reparation for those impacts. ... More >>
Milestone Reached For Te Huia Passenger Rail Service
Friday, 4 September 2020, 3:59 pm | Waikato Regional Council
The first of the carriages for the new Te Huia passenger rail service from Waikato to Auckland will arrive in Hamilton on Saturday, signalling an exciting milestone for the project. A blessing of the carriages, which have been under refurbishment ... More >>
Committee Recommends Lobbying For Swimming Ban In Aratiatia Rapids
Tuesday, 1 September 2020, 6:05 pm | Waikato Regional Council
Waikato regional councillors will be asked to vote on a committee recommendation to lobby for legislation which will enable swimming to be banned in the Aratiatia rapids. It’s among a number of decisions made by a three-person hearings committee ... More >>
Regional Council Opts To Stick With First Past The Post
Thursday, 27 August 2020, 5:00 pm | Waikato Regional Council
Waikato regional councillors have opted to stick with the first past the post voting system for the 2022 triennial election. Other options before today’s council meeting included a change to single transferable voting (STV) and a poll of electors on the ... More >>
New Waikato Regional Council Chief Executive Appointed
Thursday, 27 August 2020, 1:59 pm | Waikato Regional Council
Waikato Regional Council has today announced the appointment of Chris McLay as chief executive. Mr McLay has worked for almost 20 years at the council, holding an executive position in charge of the council’s regulatory responsibilities for the last 17 ... More >>
Council Gives 48 Small Scale Community Pest Control Projects A Funding Boost
Wednesday, 26 August 2020, 3:59 pm | Waikato Regional Council
Waikato Regional Council has given 48 pest animal and plant control projects $149,984 in funding in the latest round of its Small Scale Community Initiatives Fund (SSCIF). The fund was set up to help local communities and individual landowners undertake ... More >>
Waikato’s COVID-19 Fundraising Cookbook Wins International Awards
Monday, 17 August 2020, 8:37 am | Waikato Regional Council
The world’s most elite chefs have won these awards: Jamie Oliver, Paul Hollywood, Michael Roux and, closer to home, Josh Emett, Nadia Lim and Michael Van de Elzen. And now Waikato Civil Defence Emergency Management (CDEM) has won two awards in the ... More >>
Roadmap A Major Step In Council’s Climate Action Leadership
Friday, 14 August 2020, 5:21 am | Waikato Regional Council
The Climate Action Committee today recommended that the council adopt the Waikato Regional Council Climate Action Roadmap which will signal how the council will work toward a low-emissions, climate-resilient economy. There is hardly a regional council ... More >>
Return To Physical Distancing On Buses
Wednesday, 12 August 2020, 4:00 pm | Waikato Regional Council
Physically distancing will again be required on buses with the return to alert level 2 for the Waikato in the nationwide COVID-19 response. Waikato Regional Council public transport manager Andrew Wilson says the council is well prepared for a change in ... More >>
Waikato Gets $23.8m From Government COVID-19 Recovery Fund For Climate Resilience Projects
Tuesday, 4 August 2020, 6:40 pm | Waikato Regional Council
Waikato Regional Council has secured $23.8 million from the Government for 10 flood protection and catchment projects. Yesterday, Deputy Prime Minister Winston Peters and Infrastructure Minister Shane Jones unveiled funding of $103.7 million for climate ... More >>
Waikato Environmental Advocates Sought For Volunteer Group
Monday, 3 August 2020, 9:42 am | Waikato Regional Council
Shepherd Isaac remembers his father reciting karakia – “making us one with the environment” – when walking ancient tracks and entering the water to collect and prepare kai. “But modern times have brought pressures, challenges and struggles ... More >>
Go-ahead To Transfer Functions To Iwi Authority A New Zealand First
Thursday, 30 July 2020, 5:27 pm | Waikato Regional Council
Waikato Regional Council has reached a landmark decision to approve the transfer of specified water quality monitoring functions to the Tūwharetoa Māori Trust Board – a first of its kind in Aotearoa New Zealand. However, the council will still ... More >>
Council Helps Sustainability Of Community Groups With $1.63m In Grants
Thursday, 23 July 2020, 3:20 pm | Waikato Regional Council
Waikato Regional Council has granted $1.63 million to five community groups working on landscape scale predator control projects. At the inaugural meeting of the Community Restoration Committee today, councillors approved Natural Heritage Fund grants to: ... More >>
