Lower Waitaki River Management Society Incorporated v Canterbury Regional Council
COURT OR TRIBUNAL
Environment Court of New Zealand
DATE FILED (OR FIRST HEARING DATE)
22/06/2009
LITIGATION TYPE
Project Approval - Mitigation
SUBJECT MATTER
Hydropower
REVIEW TYPE
Merits review
SUMMARY
(Excerpt from judgment)
[1] Should Meridian Energy Limited (“Meridian”) be granted resource consents to take water from the Waitaki Dam Reservoir – thus reducing the flow in the Waitaki River by (on average) 211 m3/sec between the dam and a place called Stonewall about 30 kilometres downstream and then to discharge it back into the river at Stonewall after generating energy at a power station?
Avoided greenhouse gas emissions was taken into consideration as a relevant factor.
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