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 and 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.
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