Banks Peninsula dairy farmer Philip Ross Curry has been fined $5,000 after pleading guilty to a charge of discharging dairy shed solids onto land that may have resulted in contaminants entering nearby Barrys Bay Stream. The case was heard in the Christchurch District Court earlier this year. (Read on …)

Two companies have been fined $14,250 each because of a diesel spill which closed Warkworth’s water treatment plant for 17 days. (Read on …)