News & events

Date: Tue, 13 Nov 2018

The Ōtūkaikino River has won the Supreme Award for Most Improved River at the 2018 New Zealand River Awards in Wellington.

Date: Mon, 5 Nov 2018

Information on matters relating to water bottling, including decisions made by Environment Canterbury.

Date: Mon, 5 Nov 2018

Consents from Environment Canterbury and the Mackenzie District Council are now in place for Simons Pass Station to begin irrigating a portion of its land.

Date: Mon, 15 Oct 2018

Recent media coverage of the Five Star Beef feedlot in Ashburton raised issues around compliance monitoring of the operation’s resource consents.

Date: Thu, 27 Sep 2018

Environment Canterbury has laid charges against two parties in relation to the death of hundreds of eels in Kaputone Creek.

Date: Fri, 7 Sep 2018

Today Environment Canterbury cancelled an abatement notice issued to Cloud Ocean Water which had stopped it taking water.

Date: Fri, 24 Aug 2018

Today Environment Canterbury issued Cloud Ocean Water an abatement notice to stop taking water from its shallow well.

Date: Thu, 23 Aug 2018 by Hamish McFarlane - Orari Temuka Opihi Pareora Water Zone Committee chair

Hamish McFarlane, was elected as the new Chair taking over from John Talbot to develop water management with the community.

Date: Fri, 3 Aug 2018

Earlier this week Environment Canterbury welcomed Their Excellencies, The Rt Hon Dame Patsy Reddy and Sir David Gascoigne, to Selwyn District.

Date: Tue, 17 Jul 2018

Two companies have been fined a total of $41,000 for causing sediment contamination of a Christchurch stream.

Date: Mon, 25 Jun 2018

Could aluminium bands wrapped around old trees be one way of preventing one of NZ’s native bat species from extinction?

Date: Thu, 31 May 2018

A popular little lake in the Mackenzie Basin, Lake Poaka, is getting some help to reduce invasive trees that are clogging its shoreline and surrounding wetlands.