19 Dec 2008
GREENPEACE NEW ZEALAND INC V GENESIS POWER LTD SC 94/2007
- Citation
- GREENPEACE NEW ZEALAND INC V GENESIS POWER LTD SC 94/2007
- Court
- Supreme Court
By a majority the Supreme Court dismissed the appeal, holding that ss 70A and 104E are properly construed as confining the statutory exception permitting regard to greenhouse gas reduction benefits of renewable energy to rules or applications that involve the use and development of renewable energy; accordingly consent authorities generally must not have regard to the effects of greenhouse gas discharges on climate change except when the proposal itself involves renewable energy enabling an absolute or relative reduction.