2011-08-25 11:51:09 // Sustain Team
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News the government has introduced new environmental legislation governing offshore mineral exploration and extraction in the exclusive economic zone and extended continental shelf has failed to find favour with some groups, while others have said it provides needed certainty over the development of ocean resources.
2011-08-19 10:39:07 // Sustain Team
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When it comes to the Government and the Green Party, it’s not a common occurrence to see the two agreeing on policy relating to the environment. But why has a proposal put forward by environment minister Nick Smith yesterday, to move national environmental reporting to the independent Parliamentary Commissioner for the Environment (PCE), struck a harmonious chord with the Green Party?
2011-08-01 12:45:27 // Deirdre Robert
It was only a few months ago that John Key was trumpeting our clean waterways on BBC show Hardtalk. Interviewer Stephen Sackur wasn’t suffering fools on that occasion, and neither is a new report released by the Cawthron Institute that says freshwater water pollution is likely to get worse over the coming years.
2011-07-07 10:39:49 // Deirdre Robert
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While we can applaud the efforts of those that choose to use reusable nappies, the reality is that disposables are by far and away still the most popular option (and let’s face it, the most convenient). But what if you could compost them? That’s exactly what EnviroComp plans to do in Wellington, and an announcement by the Government that it will contribute $700,000 in grant money to further support the business initiative has provided a valuable booster. But that's not the only big news for the company, which has also announced it will expand operations overseas as part of recent acquisition by the New Zealand office of UK-based facilities services company OCS.
2010-09-02 17:07:28 // Design Daily Team
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The state of urban planning in New Zealand has been a contentious issue for sometime now, and in a recent speech to the New Zealand Planning Institute at their Auckland Spatial Plan conference, Nick Smith revealed the Government’s plans to make urban and infrastructure planning a more effective process, both nationally and in the context of Auckland’s Super City.
