FindLaw New Zealand : Property & Resources Law : Environmental & Resource Management Law

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Practical Articles

• Largest single fine for a Building Act matter confirmed by the High Court
  Firm: KPMG Legal
  Date: July, 2002
• Resource Consents: The Implications Of Giving Written Approval.
  Firm: Harkness Henry & Co
  Date: July, 2002
• Climate Change Response Bill
  Firm: Phillips Fox
  Date: June, 2002
• Overseas Investment Act - Recent Changes to Land Classification
  Firm: KPMG Legal
  Date: May, 2002
• Climate change - Government preferred policy package
  Firm: Phillips Fox
  Date: May, 2002
• Public Access Over Right of Way
  Firm: Phillips Fox
  Date: May, 2002
• RMA - waahi tapu
  Firm: Phillips Fox
  Date: May, 2002
• Sensitive tomatoes
  Firm: Phillips Fox
  Date: May, 2002
• Aquaculture Moratorium: Stemming the Goldrush or Killing the Goose?
  Firm: Chapman Tripp Sheffield Young
  Date: April, 2002
• How the New Local Government Bill Deals With Property Issues
  Firm: Phillips Fox
  Date: April, 2002
• Time is Money: Cost, Delay, and Notification under the Resource Management Act
  Firm: Chapman Tripp Sheffield Young
  Date: April, 2002
• What's New With Hazardous Substances?
  Firm: Pitt & Moore
  Date: April, 2002
• Council liability for flood damage
  Firm: Phillips Fox
  Date: April, 2002
• Prosecutions - RMA and Building Act
  Firm: Phillips Fox
  Date: April, 2002
• Resource Management (Aquaculture Moratorium) Amendment Bill - update
  Firm: Phillips Fox
  Date: April, 2002
• Resource Management Act - role of s271A parties
  Firm: Phillips Fox
  Date: April, 2002
• Untidy properties - clean up options
  Firm: Phillips Fox
  Date: April, 2002
• Proposed Changes to Resource Management Act 1991
  Firm: Anderson Lloyd Caudwell
  Date: March, 2002
• Discharges - potential council liability for negligent investigation/unnecessary remedial work?
  Firm: Phillips Fox
  Date: March, 2002
• Waste, What Waste? A Question of Liability
  Firm: Clendon Feeney
  Date: March, 2002
• Local Government Bill
  Firm: Phillips Fox
  Date: February, 2002
• Ten Years of the Resource Management Act 1991 - Understanding the Role of the Public in the Planning Process
  Firm: Davys Burton
  Date: January, 2002
• Proposed amendments to Te Ture Whenua Maori Act 1993
  Firm: Phillips Fox
  Date: December, 2001
• North Waikato Regional Landfill - effects, preparation and consultation
  Firm: Phillips Fox
  Date: December, 2001
• European Biotechnology Directive
  Firm: Baldwin Shelston Waters
  Date: December, 2001
• Public interest group - Environment Court costs
  Firm: Phillips Fox
  Date: December, 2001
• Venture Capital - What's in it for the Biotechnology Industry in New Zealand
  Firm: Simpson Grierson
  Date: October, 2001
• Bio-prospecting - The Implications For New Zealand
  Firm: Simpson Grierson
  Date: August, 2001
• Hazardous Substances & New Organisms (HSNO) Act
  Firm: Baldwin Shelston Waters
  Date: August, 2001
• The Resource Management Act 1991 - Friend Or Foe?
  Firm: Gascoigne Wicks
  Date: July, 2001
• Becoming Involved In The Resource Management Process
  Firm: Wynn Williams & Co
  Date: June, 2001

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Links & Resources

• Auckland Regional Council - Resource Consents - Auckland Regional Council resource consent application forms online
• Crown Minerals - Providing and promoting investment opportunities in the exploration and development of New Zealand's oil, gas, mineral and coal resources.
• Department of Conservation - The government agency responsible for conservation in New Zealand.
• ESR - Institute of Environmental Science & Research Ltd - New Zealand's leading forensic, public health and environmental science provider
• Environment and Conservation Organisations of NZ New Zealand - New Zealand?s network of groups which share a concern for the environment
• Environmental Business Network of New Zealand - The EBN consists of regionally based business support and information sharing networks concerning the environment.
• Environmental Risk Management Authority - A quasi-judicial body with up to eight members appointed by the Minister for the Environment
• Forest Research - Web site of the environmental research company Forest Research
• HortResearch - Research of plant science
• Institute of Geological and Nuclear Sciences Limited - A New Zealand Crown Research Institute offering independent scientific and technical advice
• Land Information New Zealand - Core Government land and seabed information
• Maori Language - Learn the meaning and pronunciation of around a hundred Maori words
• Ministry for the Environment - Reports on the state of the New Zealand environment, the way that environmental laws and policies work in practice and on action necessary to improve environmental management.
• Ministry for the Environment - Environment Update - A free newsletter which provides information on the development of environmental policy, Ministry activities and new publications
• Ministry of Agriculture and Fisheries - MAF creates opportunity for, and manages risk to, New Zealand's food, fibre, forestry and associated industries.
• Ministry of Women's Affairs - The Ministry providing advice to the Government on women's affairs
• National Institute of Water and Atmospheric Research - A New Zealand Crown Research Institute providing a scientific basis for the sustainable management of New Zealand's atmospheric, marine and freshwater systems and associated resources.
• New Zealand Centre for Environmental Law - A specialist centre hosted by the Faculty of Law at the University of Auckland, created to build on the Faculty of Law's expertise in the area of environmental law and resource management law.
• New Zealand Customs Service - NZ Customs ensures that all goods and persons entering and exiting New Zealand do so in accordance with all New Zealand laws and regulations.
• New Zealand Ecological Society - Promotes the study of ecology and the application of ecological knowledge
• New Zealand Government Online - Provides an overview of New Zealand and its government, access to government services information, as well as government agency contact details.
• New Zealand Landcare Trust - Landcare Research, an independent Crown Research Institute, focusing on management of land resources for conservation and for primary production
• New Zealand Pastoral Agriculture Research Institute Ltd - An independent research and development company set up under the Crown Research Institutes (CRI) Act
• New Zealand Planning Institute - NZPI provides information on planning practice and techniques and is an advocate of planning
• Parliamentary Commissioner for the Environment - Officer of Parliament who reviews and provides advice on the management, allocation, use and protection of natural and physical resources
• Water Magazine - Web site containing water policy advice and ideas