Displaying items by tag: Waikato Regional Council

Changes to resource management laws announced last week will spare thousands of farmers from needing an unnecessary resource consent just to keep farming.

A Taupiri farming company has been convicted and fined $52,500 in the Hamilton District Court for the unlawful discharge of dairy effluent into the environment.

Convictions and fines totalling $112,500 have been imposed on a logging company for repeated environmental damage on a farm near Wahi between August 2022 and October 2023.

Following twelve years of litigation, a conclusion could be in sight of Waikato’s controversial Plan Change 1 (PC1).

OPINION: It's Moving Day end of this week.

Third-year student Cady Burns has won the Waikato Regional Council Prize in Water Science for 2024.

Waikato Regional Council is taking Te Aroha piggery farm to court following an investigation into the discharge of effluent into a stream.

Waikato Regional Council has sought an interim Enforcement Order from the Environment Court to stop piggery effluent from entering a waterway north of Te Aroha.

Farming company JB Thomas and Sons Limited has been convicted and fined $71,250 for unlawfully discharging dairy effluent into the environment at its Reporoa farm in November 2021.

A prosecution by Waikato Regional Council against a dairy farming operation in Ngaroma, near Ōtorohanga, has resulted in numerous convictions, significant fines and the imposition of an Enforcement Order.