Environmental Defence Society (Incorporated) v Auckland Regional Council

COURT OR TRIBUNAL

Environment Court of New Zealand

DATE FILED (OR FIRST HEARING DATE)

06/09/2002

LITIGATION TYPE

Project Approval - Mitigation

SUBJECT MATTER

Coal-fired / gas-fired power station

REVIEW TYPE

Merits review

SUMMARY

Contact Energy Limited was granted resource consents by the Auckland Regional Council to construct and operate a 400MW gas fired combined cycle power station in South Auckland. The Environmental Defence Society sought the imposition of a condition on the air discharge consent requiring Contact to offset all the CO2 emissions by planting trees to act as carbon sinks. 

This case was immediately followed by a case that raised similar questions - Environmental Defence Society Incorporated v Taranaki Regional Council A184/2002 [2002] NZEnvC 441. 

CASE DOCUMENTS

Environmental Defence Society (Incorporated) v Auckland Regional Council A183/2002 [2002] NZEnvC 315; [2002] NZRMA 492; (2003) 9 ELRNZ 1

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