Category Sustainable Future

In the mid 1990s, Canterbury’s councils came together, with two private firms, to solve a rubbish problem. Dumps had been peppered over the landscape and some were running out of space. The advent of the Resource Management Act forced the…

Ambitious and controversial attempts to remove iwi and environmental voice from fast track panels and give ministers the final say were not just a government back-down – they were a u-turn. It’s emerged that last week’s changes to the fast-track…