Ngā Kōrero o te Wā / What's Happening
Thu 5 Apr 2012: EDS welcomes appointment of new Minister for the EnvironmentThe Environmental Defence Society welcomes the appointment of Amy Adams as Minister for the Environment.
Pānui mai »Tue 27 Mar 2012: Foodies back Best Fish Guide
We believe empowered consumers can help take pressure off the most over-exploited species, and help keep our oceans healthy.
Pānui mai »Wed 21 Mar 2012: EDS expresses regret at loss of a very capable Environment Minister
The Chairman of the Environmental Defence Society, Gary Taylor, has expressed regret at the resignation of Hon Dr Nick Smith as Minister for the Environment.
Pānui mai »Thu 15 Mar 2012: Notice of Meeting, MANAWATU RIVER LEADERS' FORUM
Horizons will receive $5.2m of funding from the Fresh Start for Freshwater Clean up Fund. Time: Wednesday 28 March 10.15am - 12.30. Venue - The CHALET, Centennial Drive, Palmerston North
Pānui mai »Thu 15 Mar 2012: Appointments Sought to the Environmental Protection Authority Board
The Minister for the Environment is calling for appointments to the Environmental Protection Authority Board. It is important that Board members have knowledge and experience relating to the Treaty of Waitangi / Te Tiriti o Waitangi and tikanga Māori (Māori customary values and practices). Applications close Friday 30 March 2012.
Pānui mai »Thu 15 Mar 2012: Waitangi Tribunal directions on research programme for the Manawatu ki Porirua Inquiry
The Waitangi Tribunal hearing the Manawatu ki Porirua Inquiry (Wai 2200) has just released its Directions concerning the research programme for the district. Hui Workshops will be called and claimants are encouraged to provide their draft project descriptions five days before the relevant workshop, to serve as a basis for discussion. Submissions on the casebook research programme must be filed by midday Thursday 29 March 2012.
Pānui mai »Thu 15 Mar 2012: Rangitikei River Research Report released by CFRT
The Rangitikei River, it’s Tributary Waterways, and other Taihape Waterways final scoping report, by David Alexander, and commissioned by the Crown Forestry Rental Trust for the Taihape and Manawatu ki Porirua Inquiry districts, has now been released and is available to claimants in those district inquiries.
Pānui mai »Thu 8 Mar 2012: Hauraki Gulf Whale-strike workshop seeks answers
A recent workshop convened by the Environmental Defence Society, the Hauraki Gulf Forum and The University of Auckland has agreed to try to find a solution to the incidence of whale ship-strikes in the Hauraki Gulf.
Pānui mai »Thu 1 Mar 2012: Feilding Wastewater Treatment Plant - Update on Statutory Approvals
The Manawatu District Council’s (‘Councils’) statutory approvals to discharge treated wastewater from the Feilding Wastewater Treatment Plant to the Oroua River have now expired. I am writing to outline our approach for the continued operation of the treatment plant and the process from this point onwards.
Pānui mai »Wed 15 Feb 2012: From cesspits to sewers: a tale of wastewater treatment
In the 1870s, the early years of the Palmerston North township, there was no sewage network. Instead, households had “long-drops”, while hotels and boarding houses built cesspits to bury “nightsoil”. By 1877, the odour from these was becoming unbearable in some locations, and in 1879, the borough council prohibited the digging of open cesspits, instead creating a ten acre “sanitary reserve” for the burial of nightsoil and household refuse.
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