17 Dec 2020
TE RŪNANGA O NGĀTI AWA v BAY OF PLENTY REGIONAL COUNCIL [2020] NZHC 3388
- Citation
- (2020) 22 ELRNZ323
- Court
- High Court
The High Court dismissed the appeals. The Environment Court did not err in law in its Jurisdictional Overview or substantive decision: (1) cultural effects of exporting bottled water were considered and the Environment Court's factual findings that there would be no loss of mauri and that kaitiakitanga would not be unreasonably prevented stand and are not susceptible to legal challenge on this appeal; (2) consequential effects of plastic bottle disposal and export were too remote or insufficiently connected to the grant of a regional water take or district land use consent to warrant inclusio…