Hearings bound for Environment Court
Hearings for retrospective consents to allow the Shotover wastewater treatment plant to discharge treated wastewater directly into the Shotover River will take place in the Environment Court.
Hamish MacLean
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Climate change response timeframe at odds with visions
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Climate change response timeframe at odds with visions
Responding to climate change risks in South Dunedin needs to happen much sooner than the 75-year visions promoted for the suburb earlier this year, a new report suggests.
Mayor suffers ‘mini stroke’
Mayor suffers ‘mini stroke’
Invercargill Mayor Nobby Clark is recovering at home after a minor stroke at the weekend, his deputy says.
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Mayor confident gondola on the horizon
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Mayor confident gondola on the horizon
Gondolas are a go and maybe congestion charges, too, Queenstown Mayor Glyn Lewers says.
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Flood response ‘incompetent’, ‘ignorant’
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Council response to flooding ‘incompetent’, ‘ignorant’
The city council’s response to flood-weary Surrey St residents has been slammed as "disingenuous", "incompetent" and "ignorant".
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Committee formed to look at any regional deals
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Committee formed to look at any regional deals
Otago regional councillors wary of a potential Otago Central Lakes regional deal claim its proposals could undermine the public health system, or the council’s role as a mining regulator, and say...
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Wastewater may exceed ammonia bottom lines: ORC
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Wastewater may exceed ammonia bottom lines: ORC
Treated wastewater being discharged into the Shotover River may be exceeding national bottom lines for ammonia, the Otago Regional Council (ORC) says.
‘Kremlin’ councils need to go: Jones
‘Kremlin’ councils need to go: Jones
Resource Minister Shane Jones has called the Otago Regional Council "the Kremlin of the South Island" after an application to expand the Macraes gold mine ran into trouble.
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‘Tricky balance’: free child bus fares end
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‘Tricky balance’: free child bus fares end
Making children pay bus fares was a bitter pill to swallow for Otago regional councillors yesterday.
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‘Hard look’ at operation kept rates rise down
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‘Hard look’ at operation kept rates rise down
Keeping the rates rise to 5.5% was the result of having "a really hard look" at how things are done at the Otago Regional Council, its chairwoman says.
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5.5% rates rise set to be approved
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5.5% rates rise set to be approved
Otago regional councillors are due to approve a 5.5% rates rise today, down from an earlier projected increase of 13.8%.
Bus fare hike among transport changes
Bus fare hike among transport changes
Increases in bus fares and a fleet of other public transport changes are set to be approved by the Otago Regional Council tomorrow.
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Scrapping councils would incur ‘damaging cost’
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Scrapping councils would incur ‘damaging cost’
Scrapping regional councils would come at a ‘‘damaging cost’’ to New Zealand’s clean green image, a regional councillor says.
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DCC accused of hindering development
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DCC accused of hindering development
The council is again being accused of stymieing development with excessive red tape adding $15,000 to $30,000 to the cost of new homes in Dunedin.
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Effluent issue unresolved
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Effluent issue unresolved
The Shotover wastewater treatment plant has now discharged the equivalent of about 400 Olympic-sized swimming pools of effluent into the Shotover River and the consideration of its effects has yet...
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'Significant' bus hub disorder included BB gun
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'Significant' bus hub disorder included BB gun
Security guards recorded an average of one "significant" incident every 10 days after taking over at Dunedin’s bus hub in the wake of last year’s fatal stabbing, official information shows.
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'Devastating': Hundreds of birds caught by trawler
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'Devastating': Hundreds of birds caught by trawler
A single fishing vessel hauled in 207 seabirds in one "devastating" go while trawling off Southland’s coast earlier this year, Forest & Bird revealed yesterday.
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Bus hub issues: councils ‘doing exactly what we said we would’
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Bus hub issues: councils ‘doing exactly what we said we would’
Dunedin Mayor Jules Radich says who should take the lead on making the bus hub safer is not a "hot potato" despite staff from the two councils pointing the finger at each other.
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ORC apologises for more privacy breaches
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ORC apologises for more privacy breaches
The Otago Regional Council has admitted further privacy breaches after an investigation into how the council unwittingly came to break confidentiality and share the email addresses of hundreds of...
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Music proposed as way to calm bus hub conduct
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Music proposed as way to calm bus hub conduct
Music could be used to soothe savage behaviour at Dunedin’s city centre bus hub, a regional councillor has suggested.