Displaying items by tag: Environment Canterbury

Alliance Group’s Smithfield plant in Canterbury has been fined $57,000 for unlawfully discharging a contaminant of trade waste and ‘stickwater’ to land and then to sea near Waitarakao/Washdyke Lagoon earlier this week after a prosecution by Environment Canterbury.

Investing in precision agriculture has provided North Canterbury farmer Roscoe Taggart with benefits - environmental, social and financial.

Environment Canterbury (EC) is rejecting Greenpeace's latest claims on nitrate leaching impacting the region's water supply.

Environment Canterbury has announced that it will adopt its Long-Term Plan 2021-31.

Farms first have to be profitable if they are to meet environmental and other targets, say the Regional Supreme Winners of the 2020 Canterbury Ballance Farm Environment Awards, Tony Coltman and Dana Carver.

A national limit on dissolved nitrogen would “essentially eliminate” intensive agriculture in the Selwyn Waihora catchment, says Environment Canterbury chief scientist Dr Tim Davie.

A conservation and hunting lobby has criticised a call by Environment Canterbury for more funding to prevent a national plague of wallabies.

Regional councils won’t be anything more than “unpopular policemen” if the discussion document on freshwater goes the way the Government is proposing, says a newly elected Canterbury regional councillor.

A wallaby invasion helped by humans is tearing up farms and previous plantings, says Environment Canterbury (ECan).

Nitrate levels in Christchurch drinking water are not expected to exceed safe drinking levels in the future, says Waimakariri Irrigation Ltd.