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Warning over backyard burning in Northland this autumn 11 Apr, 2021 05:00 PM 3 minutes to read Complaints about burning and smoke nuisance to the NRC s Environment Hotline average 252 each year. Photo / Supplied Complaints about burning and smoke nuisance to the NRC s Environment Hotline average 252 each year. Photo / Supplied Northern Advocate Northland s chief environment watchdog is warning people planning to burn unwanted waste material this autumn to follow the rules or risk stiff penalties, including court action. The warning by the Northland Regional Council follows an average of 252 burning and smoke nuisance complaints it receives each year, or 25 per cent of all incidents reported on its Environment Hotline. ....
Consents sought for massive power station in Northland 17 Mar, 2021 05:00 PM 5 minutes to read Millan Ruka of the Whatitiri Resource Management Unit is calling for proper consultation over the proposed hydro-electric power station. Photo / John Stone Imran Ali is a reporter for the Northern [email protected] A Northland farm trust is seeking consents to build a hydro-electric power station capable of generating 3 megawatts of electricity that would help secure the region s energy supply in disasters. Glenview Estate, owned by Neil and Dianne Lewis, has applied to the Northland Regional Council for consents to divert water from the Wairua River by building a low weir, digging, drilling, and blasting a short power canal. ....
NRC is the consenting authority for the WDC-run scheme. Rob Forlong, WDC chief executive, said the council was not breaching its resource consent with pumps killing the tuna whakaheke. “But our aim is to minimise deaths to eels,” Forlong said. Eight Ngā Kaitiaki o Ngā Wāi Māori hapū members on Friday dumped 20 litres of rotting tuna, chopped up by the pumps about 10 days earlier, at the front doors of NRC and WDC in Whangārei. “We have had enough,” Chantez Connor-Kingi, Ngā Kaitiaki o Ngā Wāi Māori hapū member, said. Supplied The tuna whakaheke (migrating eels) were chopped up in the Hikurangi Swamp pumps on Valentine’s Day, halting a 2500km migration. ....
Earthworks at Ōpua boatyard and reserve spark concerns 5 Mar, 2021 04:00 PM 4 minutes to read Earthworks are underway at Doug s Ōpua Boatyard to lower a slipway used to haul boats ashore. Photo / supplied Earthworks are underway at Doug s Ōpua Boatyard to lower a slipway used to haul boats ashore. Photo / supplied Peter de Graaf is a reporter for the Northern [email protected] Earthworks at an Ōpua boatyard at the centre of a decades-long stoush over a public reserve have raised neighbours hackles but the owner says the work is consented and will create a boatyard that s better for the environment. ....
Eels minced by Hikurangi Swamp pumps dumped at council offices 4 Mar, 2021 04:01 PM 5 minutes to read Hori Kingi and Chantez Connor-Kingi at Hikurangi Swamp s Ngārāratunua pumping station where eels were chopped up by pumps. Photo / Michael Cunningham Hori Kingi and Chantez Connor-Kingi at Hikurangi Swamp s Ngārāratunua pumping station where eels were chopped up by pumps. Photo / Michael Cunningham Susan Botting is the Local Democracy Reporter for [email protected] A Hikurangi Swamp kaitiaki wants the Whangārei District Council prosecuted over ongoing issues with its $23 million Hikurangi Swamp flood management scheme killing thousands of tuna whakaheke (migrating eels). ....