Displaying items by tag: Waikato Regional Council

Following twelve years of litigation, a conclusion could be in sight of Waikato’s controversial Plan Change 1 (PC1).

OPINION: It's Moving Day end of this week.

Third-year student Cady Burns has won the Waikato Regional Council Prize in Water Science for 2024.

Waikato Regional Council is taking Te Aroha piggery farm to court following an investigation into the discharge of effluent into a stream.

Waikato Regional Council has sought an interim Enforcement Order from the Environment Court to stop piggery effluent from entering a waterway north of Te Aroha.

Farming company JB Thomas and Sons Limited has been convicted and fined $71,250 for unlawfully discharging dairy effluent into the environment at its Reporoa farm in November 2021.

A prosecution by Waikato Regional Council against a dairy farming operation in Ngaroma, near Ōtorohanga, has resulted in numerous convictions, significant fines and the imposition of an Enforcement Order.

Climate Commission chair Dr Rod Carr recently shared the commission's views - and some personal ones - with the Waikato Regional Council Climate Action Committee.

Waikato Regional Council has secured $2.8 million from the Ministry for Primary Industries’ Hill Country Erosion (HCE) Programme in the latest round of funding announced on Sunday.

Reports of effluent being illegally dumped from trucks in three locations in Waikato have prompted calls for trucking companies and farmers to improve their practices.