Environmental Defence Society Incorporated v Taranaki 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

The Environmental Defence Society sought conditions to offset the greenhouse effects caused by CO2 emissions that would be emitted from a combined cycle station (burning gas to generate electricity). Stratford Power had obtained resource consents to build a 500MW plant in Stratford.

This decision immediately followed, and raised similar issues to, Environmental Defence Society (Incorporated) v Auckland Regional Council A183/2002 [2002] NZEnvC 315; [2002] NZRMA 492; (2003) 9 ELRNZ 1.

CASE DOCUMENTS

Environmental Defence Society Incorporated v Taranaki Regional Council A184/2002 [2002] NZEnvC 441