News & events

Date: Thu, 18 Dec 2025

Monitoring across our seven towns and cities in Waitaha Canterbury shows a clear downward trend in high-pollution days between 2000 and 2025.

Date: Thu, 2 Oct 2025

A local first home-buyer was back in summer pyjamas in winter – thanks to a fully subsidised heat pump installation through a regional clean heating programme.

Date: Wed, 27 Aug 2025

As thousands of wood burners around Canterbury are set to expire, subsidies are available to replace them with new, cleaner forms of heating.

Date: Wed, 30 Jul 2025

We’re clearing the air on smoky chimneys and what the rules really mean for Waitaha Canterbury households.

Date: Tue, 3 Jun 2025

While air pollution in Waitaha Canterbury has been trending downwards over the past 20 years, smoke from wood burners is still impacting our winter air quality.

Date: Thu, 22 May 2025

When you use your wood burner efficiently, it consumes less wood, reduces your costs, and reduces chimney smoke and subsequent air pollution.

Date: Thu, 27 Mar 2025

Burning chemically treated wood creates toxic smoke and ash that endangers human health and contaminates our environment.

Date: Thu, 4 Jul 2024

Winter weather has settled in, and as Cantabrians crank up their wood burners, we start to see high-pollution days in many of the areas we monitor.

Date: Thu, 7 Mar 2024

Is your wood burner expired or expiring? Replace it to help clear the air in Waitaha/Canterbury.

Date: Wed, 14 Jun 2023

Environment Canterbury has committed to refunding all interest payments made by current and former borrowers in the Healthier Homes Canterbury scheme.

Date: Thu, 1 Jul 2021

LAWA has released its Air Quality National Picture Summary, which confirms air quality in New Zealand towns is generally good, and has improved.