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Plant opponents kick up stink over hearing charge
13 Sep 2020Opponents of an application to renew consents for an oil and gas drilling waste processing operation in Taranaki say they are being asked to pay an "extortionate" amount for an independent hearing.
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Global warming in PNG: 'More houses are going to be in danger now'
12 Sep 2020Global warming is being blamed for the king tides that have washed away houses in a village on Papua New Guinea's south coast.
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Study records one of highest rat densities on mainland
7 Sep 2020Researchers are utilising a kind of tag-and-release programme on rats in Fiordland to estimate their numbers and improve conservation efforts.
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Predator Free 2050: $7.5m funding boost for Wellington programme
7 Sep 2020Predator Free Wellington says a $7.6 million funding boost should see rats, stoats and weasels banished from the city twice as fast as originally planned.
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Darfield, Christchurch, Cook Strait, Kaikōura: A decade of earthquakes
2 Sep 2020Our Changing World - In this earthquake special, three GNS Science seismologists from GeoNet recollect their experience of the Big Ones and talk about the lessons learned. Audio
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Microplastic research reveals impact reaches underground food chains
Researchers in China say the contaminant has significant impacts on some of the "tiny critters" that live in the dirt.
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Activists block fertiliser trucks leaving Richmond plant
31 Aug 2020Police are at the scene of a fertiliser plant in the Tasman where protesters have locked themselves to the gates.
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Fight to protect Hamilton's rare bats heads to Environment Court
31 Aug 2020Environmentalists worried a population of bats could be pushed to extinction by a housing development are taking their fight to court.
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The murky depths of water reform
26 Aug 2020The Detail - Councils are wary about signing up to the Three Waters programme, aimed at improving drinking water, wastewater and stormwater.
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Golf resort owner fined $86k for wastewater discharge
26 Aug 2020A former golf course owner in Auckland has been slapped with a $86,000 fine for discharging wastewater into a creek.
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Three farmers fined a total of $116k for effluent discharge
They were prosecuted under the Resource Management Act by the Waikato Regional Council in the Hamilton District Court.
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More than 100 wastewater treatment plants breaching consent
24 Aug 2020New Zealanders flush toilets millions of times each day, and most of them lead to treatment plants that are not complying with their conditions for treating wastewater.
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'It will kill the wildlife, wetlands will be stuffed, it'll just annihilate them'
21 Aug 2020A Taranaki couple are vowing to fight to the bitter end to stay in their home which is in the path of the province's biggest roading project in generations. Audio
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Expert warns controversial plant needs testing for dioxin contamination
20 Aug 2020The land that a controversial chemical plant in New Plymouth is built on should be thoroughly tested for contamination before it is ever used again, according to an expert.
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Why a new product stewardship scheme isn't just rubbish
14 Aug 2020The Detail - Reduce, re-use, recycle is taking on a new and more formal meaning with the government's product stewardship scheme.
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Plan to phase out hard-to-recycle PVC, polystrene and single-use plastics
12 Aug 2020Plastic cotton buds, sushi trays, straws and tableware are all on the chopping block as part of the latest government plan to reduce waste.
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Kiwi roaming in backyards? Minister launches biodiversity strategy
10 Aug 2020The biodiversity strategy - Te Mana o te Taiao - sets out goals for protecting and restoring nature.
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Lockdown climate benefits not lasting, scientists warn
8 Aug 2020Reduced emissions during lockdown will not produce lasting benefits without further action, a leading climate change policy expert says.
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Environmental group 'incredibly disappointed' about mining permit
7 Aug 2020An environmental group said a permit granted this week to a mining company in the south Coromandel showed the government had failed its promise there would be no new mines on Department of…
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Project to restore water quality 'not about farmer bashing'
4 Aug 2020Farmers are concerned about receiving fair treatment during a multimillion-dollar project to clean up a Marlborough catchment.
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Climate change risks and opportunities outlined in government report
3 Aug 2020The country's first national climate change risk assessment has identified 10 significant areas that need to be urgently addressed by the government in the next six years.
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James Shaw on national climate change risk assessment: 'Forewarned is forearmed'
3 Aug 2020The first national climate change risk assessment provides a specific snapshot of the risk, and now New Zealand must respond, Climate Change Minister James Shaw says. Video
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Study on eco-friendly alternatives to forestry blocks gets backing
27 Jul 2020Marine farmers, forestry harvesters and Marlborough Sounds residents have asked for a study on how unwanted pine forests could be turned into nature blocks to stop sediment clogging seabeds.
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New Zealand's largest ever wind turbines appear in Taranaki
31 Jul 2020The largest wind turbines ever erected in New Zealand are beginning to appear on the South Taranaki landscape between Waverley and Patea.
