The following list of numbers are the top thirty fines that have been enforced by the environment court in relation to Resource Management Act infringements over the period of 2005 to 2008.
$86,500
$80,000
$55,000
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The Ministry for Environment reports that there were 260 prosecutions under the Resource Management Act in the period between 2005 and 2008,
The table below shows the maximum penalties that can be incurred for each type of offence: (Read on …)
The deliberateness of an offence is one of the sentencing factors identified in a case.
The prosecutions were divided into seven categories as set out in the Table below. In cases where there is more than one defendant, the Court often apportions responsibility.
| Commercial | Industrial | Agriculture | |
| Deliberate | 30 | 2 | 29 |
| Element of deliberateness | 30 | 3 | 26 |
| High level of carelessness/ negligence | 9 | 1 | 8 |
| Lowest end of scale of deliberateness | 1 | 2 | 1 |
| Careless | 14 | 7 | 21 |
| Accidental | 3 | 4 | 17 |
| No finding | 6 | 1 | 6 |
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Fish & Game New Zealand await with interest the launch of the Strategy for New Zealand Dairy Farming by the Prime minister, John Key on Tuesday.
The adverse environmental effects of intensive agriculture, and dairy framing in particular, are well understood and recognised by central and local government, the agricultural sector and the public of New Zealand. (Read on …)
National’s rushed amendments to the RMA came under further fire today with a former Environment Court Judge slamming a number of the provisions as seriously deficient, says Labour MP Shane Jones. (Read on …)
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