An environment watchdog is promising a tighter rein on consents around ongoing pollution from the country`s only aluminium smelter at Tiwai Point, as they say costs for the clean up may hit $1 billion. Read...
A new assessment on the impact of the Tiwai Point aluminium smelter shows a significant amount of contamination, including fluoride, hydrocarbons, aluminium, and heavy metals, Southland Regional Council says. Read...
Industrial contamination of the environment at Tiwai Point is significant and ongoing and it is unclear what damage has been done to the land, groundwater and the coast, Environment Southland says.The regional council has asked... Read...
The Biden administration says the move would harm the Good Friday Agreement and would `not create a conducive environment` for US-UK trade talks. Read...
The Biden administration says the move would harm the Good Friday Agreement and would `not create a conducive environment` for US-UK trade talks. Read...
Environment Minister David Parker has brushed aside a suggestion from the Waitangi Tribunal that the Government move to put co-governance measures into the replacement for the Resource Management Act. Legislation on the reforms... Read...
Two men who sank a vessel in a marine reserve near Waiheke Island have been fined $40,000 in court. John Peter Lenssen and Cain Subritzy were found guilty in the Environment Court of deliberately scuttling their boat Blue Beard... Read...
A knight who has spent decades battling to protect Fiordland`s environment is appalled a dairy development has been approved on the edge of Lake Te Anau.Emeritus Professor Sir Alan Mark said a resource consent issued by Environment... Read...