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Maintenance firm Citycare has effort to drop charges over water contamination rejected

Citycare argued there was no case to answer over its alleged wastewater negligence, but a judge was having none of it.

Tairāwhiti Pharmaceuticals fined $28k for wetland breach

An East Cape pharmaceutical company has been fined $28,000 for planting in and taking water from a regionally-significant wetland without consent. Tairāwhiti Pharmaceuticals planted 200,000 mānuka trees in late 2019, some of which encroached on Te Whare Wetlands. Photo: Supplied/ LDR Tairāwhiti Pharmaceuticals has been convicted of modifying and taking water from Te Whare Wetlands in breach of the Resource Management Act after Gisborne District Council laid charges. In sentencing at Gisborne District Court yesterday, Judge Brian Dwyer said he believed Tairāwhiti Pharmaceuticals director Mark Kerr genuinely didn t know he was planting 3.1 hectares of mānuka through a protected area.

Taranaki company contracted for airport demolition fined $105,000 for illegal disposal of materials

Why Environment Southland's prosecution of two companies failed

A judge has outlined his reasons for dismissing charges against two companies Environment Southland attempted to prosecute in the Environment Court.

Waikato truck company and farmer fined $109k after effluent discharge

Paddy Smith Limited was fined $60k in relation to effluent from a stock truck cleaning operation. Meanwhile, Hauraki farmer William Gary Brunt was fined $49,000 by Judge Brian Dwyer in the Hamilton District Court for unlawfully discharging animal effluent into the environment at his Netherton farm. An effluent holding pond was found to be overflowing into a nearby paddock by regional council staff during a routine inspection in August 2019. The council had alerted Brunt to the risks the system posed to the environment during previous inspections, a council statement said. SUPPLIED Effluent overflowing from holding pond on Netherton farm. Council’s compliance manager Patrick Lynch said in both cases there was adequate infrastructure to manage effluent; however, they had been poorly managed resulting in two completely avoidable incidents.