A consent application for groundwater from the Cannington Basin inland from Timaru has been declined by Commissioners Robert Nixon and Mike Bowden, acting for Environment Canterbury. (Read on …)

Aucklanders can breathe easier – the Ministry for the Environment says the city’s air quality is on track to meet health guidelines by 2013.

A report card released by the ministry yesterday shows air quality in cities the length of the country regularly breached daily standards for the amount of dangerous pollution in 2007.

But for the first time since monitoring began a decade earlier, air quality in all five main centres – Auckland, Wellington, Hamilton, Christchurch and Dunedin – met national guidelines for the amount of air pollution over a year. (Read on …)

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