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.

CASE DOCUMENTS

Lower Waitaki River Management Society Incorporated v Canterbury Regional Council C80/2009 [2009] NZEnvC 242

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