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Central OtagoMay 3

No word on Hayes land

No decision has been made yet about the future of the land bought for Project Hayes, three months after Meridian Energy pulled the plug on the wind farm.

Central OtagoFebruary 1

Ratepayers paying $211,000 for Hayes

Ratepayers will be footing the bill - $211,000- for the Central Otago District Council's involvement in the Project Hayes appeal.

Central OtagoFebruary 1

Power companies undeterred by Project Hayes decision

In the wake of the Project Hayes decision, it is business as usual for Contact Energy, weighing up options for hydro development on the Clutha River, and Pioneer Generation, looking at small-scale wind farms.

Central OtagoFebruary 1

Meridian pulls plug on Project Hayes

Energy company Meridian is withdrawing its Environment Court appeal for resource consents for Project Hayes, the wind farm proposed for the Lammermoor Range in Central Otago.

OpinionJanuary 25

Project Hayes: A missed opportunity

Was Meridian Energy's decision late last week to shelve its $2 billion Project Hayes wind farm in Central Otago a lost opportunity for establishing renewable energy in this country on a grand scale - or simply a "prudent commercial decision" by the power company giant?

Central OtagoJanuary 19

Costs mounted up for all the parties

All parties involved in the battle over Project Hayes agree on one thing - it has been an expensive exercise.

Central OtagoFebruary 24

Lammermoors wind farm still in limbo

The $2 billion Project Hayes wind farm is still in limbo, tied up in legal proceedings, almost five years after Meridian Energy first sought resource consent for the project.

Central OtagoSeptember 26

Wind farm fight call this week

Project Hayes wind farm opponents Save Central will decide this week whether to pursue the case in the Court of Appeal.

Central OtagoSeptember 25

Wind energy group hails appeal decision

The Project Hayes appeal decision will have an impact on all infrastructure providers, lawyers and a national wind energy group says.

Central OtagoSeptember 16

Project Hayes legal talks in November

Details of the next round of legal proceedings on the Project Hayes wind farm will be decided at a conference in Dunedin in mid-November.

Central OtagoAugust 18

More court ahead for wind farm

The legal proceedings on Meridian Energy's planned $2 billion Project Hayes wind farm may be far from over.

NewsAugust 17

Door may be open to Project Hayes

Project Hayes is going back to the Environment Court, following a High Court decision one submitter believes "opens the door" for the wind farm to proceed.

NationalAugust 12

Meridian plans Australian wind farm

Meridian Energy has joined forces with an Australian generation company to build a wind farm in Victoria that will be the biggest in the southern hemisphere if Project Hayes does not proceed.

Central OtagoJune 29

Cross appeal focus on climate change

A battle between scientists was the likely outcome of reconsidering climate change issues in the Project Hayes wind farm case, Justice John Fogarty said in the Dunedin High Court yesterday.

Central OtagoJune 29

Landscape seen to be the issue on final day

The value of the Lammermoor Range landscape dominated much of the discussion on the final day of the main appeal against the Environment Court's Project Hayes decision in the High Court at Dunedin yesterday.

NewsJune 29

Wind-farm ruling sets impractical test: counsel

The Environment Court decision on the Project Hayes wind farm had set a new test for any major project, one that was unprecedented, impractical and perverse, Meridian Energy counsel Hugh Rennie told the appeal hearing in the High Court at Dunedin yesterday.

Central OtagoJune 24

Project Hayes: Hear we go again?

After four years of wrangling, appeal hearings in two different courts and several million dollars spent, the future of the Project Hayes wind-farm proposal on the Lammermoor Range may be debated again in a rehearing.

Central OtagoJune 23

Rehearing further `financial burden' on objectors

A rehearing of the Project Hayes case would impose a further financial burden on groups and individuals objecting to the wind farm, their counsel told the High Court yesterday.

Central OtagoJune 22

Reason for ruling ignored, say respondents

Meridian Energy had ignored the fact the Environment Court decision on Project Hayes was about the protection of a nationally important landscape from an inappropriate development, the appeal hearing was told yesterday.

Central OtagoMay 27

Power firms against scrapping clause

A Central Otago district plan change sparked by proposals for new power generation projects is likely to cause confusion rather than clarify the issues, power companies say.

Central OtagoMay 21

'Timeless Land' sales help campaign

Some of the proceeds from a new edition of Timeless Land will go to Save Central, the group fighting the Project Hayes wind farm.

NewsJanuary 1

Councillor wants role elucidated

Feeling guilty for speaking out publicly on the Project Hayes issue, Otago Regional councillor Gerry Eckhoff has asked the council for clarification of his role.

Central OtagoDecember 13

Meridian lodges appeal

Meridian Energy is appealing an Environment Court decision declining consents for its proposed $2 billion Project Hayes wind farm in Central Otago.

DunedinDecember 9

ORC to appeal Project Hayes decision

Concern about the "huge challenge" the Otago Regional Council could face as a consent authority because of the Project Hayes decision has led it to plan lodging an appeal with the Environment Court.

OpinionDecember 8

Hopes left blowing in the wind

John and Susan Elliot say one consequence of the failed bid by Meridian Energy to build a wind farm in the Lammermoor Range is its impact on the local community - the continued existence of which now hangs in the balance.