Environment Court to decide fate of water permits in Otago
7 Mar, 2021 08:30 PM
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Hundreds of Otago permit-holders were given until October to change to resource consents, but the case is now headed to the Environment Court. Photo / RNZ-Nate McKinnon
Hundreds of Otago permit-holders were given until October to change to resource consents, but the case is now headed to the Environment Court. Photo / RNZ-Nate McKinnon
RNZ
The future of water rights in Otago is headed to court this morning.
When the Resource Management Act came into effect in October 1991, Otago was an outlier.
Taking water from some catchments in Central Otago was permitted by rights dating back to the goldfields.
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NEW ZEALAND NEAR BOTTOM IN FOREIGN AID Submitted by admin on Fri, 05/20/2005 - 00:00
WELLINGTON, New Zealand (Radio New Zealand International, May 19) – The Council for International Development says it is disappointed in the money allocated for foreign aid in the New Zealand budget released yesterday.
But the Minister in charge of overseas aid, Marian Hobbs is delighted, saying the aid provided is up by 21 percent, or over NZ$59 million (US$41.9 million), the largest increase in decades.
CID says it’s a promising start but falls well short of New Zealand’s obligation to meet a United Nations Millennium Goal by 2015.
That goal is to contribute point seven of one percent of Gross National Income toward overseas aid.