Friday, 21 May 2021, 3:48 pm
The Hawke s Bay Regional Council’s catchment plan
change hearing for the Heretaunga Plains waterways starts
this Monday 24 May in Hastings – nine years after this
process began.
This plan change hearing is specific to
the Tūtaekurī, Ahuriri, Ngaruroro and Karamū catchments.
The Plan proposes to add new objectives, policies, and rules
to the Regional Resource Management Plan to better manage
water quality and quantity. The work behind it first started
in 2012 and has been known throughout as the TANK
Plan.
Hawke’s Bay Regional Council’s chief
executive James Palmer sees the hearing as a milestone in
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Hawke s Bay orchardist again fined $14,000 for spray drift hitting cyclist
20 Apr, 2021 02:14 AM
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Johnny Appleseed director Paul Paynter said a second fine is unacceptable . Photo / Warren Buckland
A Hawke s Bay orchardist fined twice in four months for illegal spray drifts hitting cyclists says he wouldn t have planted trees had he known a cycle path was to be placed next to his orchard.
Johnny Appleseed Holdings Limited was fined $14,400 this week after a hazardous agrichemical hit a cyclist - the company s second prosecution in four months.
It s one of three Hawke s Bay companies fined a total of $37,840 this week for various breaches to the Resource Management Act 1991, in prosecutions brought by Hawke s Bay Regional Council.