Fines handed down to owners of a Carterton piggery are a clear sign the courts will not tolerate environmental offending that degrades waterways, the Greater Wellington regional council says.

The Environment Court today convicted and fined Reid’s Piggery owners Noel and Elaine Reid $12,000 each and manager Stephen Shivas $5000 following an incident last November in which pig effluent was discharged from an open hydrant and flowed into a tributary of the Parkvale Stream. (Read on …)

Farm moguls Allan and Frank Crafar are in trouble again for dirty dairying.

The brothers who are selling their business have admitted allowing effluent to be discharged on a farm near Bulls in August last year.

It is the family’s sixth conviction in the past eight years for similar offences, with fines totalling almost $180,000 including a fine totalling $90,000 earlier this year. (Read on …)

A former director of a Brooklyn abattoir and meat processing company has been penalised $80,000 for allowing a breach of the Environment Protection Act to occur during his watch, in November 2006. (Read on …)

An EPA Victoria investigation of concrete discharges has resulted in a Ballarat company being fined.

EPA Geelong manager Gavan Mathieson said EPA officers responded to community reports of an offsite discharge from Eureka Concrete (Holdings) Pty Ltd in December last year. (Read on …)

Greater Wellington is prosecuting south Wairarapa landowner Lloyd Rayner and Hauroa Farms Ltd for works in a wetland bordering Lake Wairarapa.

The Council is laying three charges – excavating/disturbing a riverbed, damming water and diverting water from a river and wetland. (Read on …)

A Bay of Plenty man who allowed effluent to leak from his dairy farm into local waterways has been fined more than $12,000. (Read on …)

You told us what you wanted, and we listened.

We are very excited to announce that CS-VUE Version 3.0 will be uploaded to our live servers tonight, and from tomorrow, all users will be treated to a complete product refresh!

This is a huge product upgrade, and CS-VUE v3.0 contains literally hundreds of new features – a few of which are outlined below.

The CS-VUE team would like to say “thank you” to all of our users who took the time to provide all the suggestions and feedback that we have been able to use as direction for this new version, we appreciate it.

Users will login to find a complete re-design of the system, with a fresh new look and feel, an even more intuitive user interface, and huge improvements in workflow efficiency.

This latest release is also packed with new functionality, including enhanced search capabilities, map referencing, intra consent and project linking, and multiple condition signoffs… the list goes on. See the sections below for a more in depth breakdown of some of the changes.

CS-VUE is taking our software-as-a-service philosophy very seriously, and this product refresh is provided absolutely free of charge to all clients.

You are more than welcome to get in touch with us if you have any queries about v3.0.

PERMITS TAB NAVIGATION PANE The Browse tab has been renamed as the Permits tab, and all consents are now called permits, to allow users greater freedom in the type of documents that they wish to manage in the system. A new search drop down list has also been added to the navigation pane to allow users to filter permits by territorial authority.
UNIVERSAL PREDICTIVE SEARCH The wild text search field on the right hand side now has predictive text capability, with a list of possible matches based on information in the database in order to speed up search.
CLIENT SURVEY TOOLS From time to time you will notice a survey pop up above the navigation pane which allows you to provide feedback. We have made great strides to streamline the survey to make it as short and convenient as possible to complete.
PERMIT MAP REFERENCE We have added two new fields to the Edit Permit view to allow users to add GIS Easting and Northing coordinates to the permits. This will assist users with wider reporting capabilities.
LINKING – PERMITS TO PERMITS It is now much easier to make reference to other permits from within the Permit Edit fields. Previously, to make mention of another permit you would have had to add the hyperlink in the note field. We have now made it easier to link permits together by choosing the associated permit record from a drop down menu. This function is particularly useful in linking permit renewals to their historical permits.
LINKING – PERMITS TO PROJECTS Users can now quickly and easily add permits to a project from the Permit Edit view. It’s also now very easy to see what projects a permit is already a part of from this view.
MULTIPLE CONDITION SIGN-OFF It is now even easier than ever to attach proof of compliance. The new multiple condition sign-off feature allows users to add an attachment and signoff multiple conditions in one fell swoop.
DASHBOARD REPORT PRINT VIEW The new Dashboard tab allows users to view the compliance level of their permits at a glance without having to scroll to the bottom of the page. It is also now easier than ever to fulfil your reporting obligations with the new CS-VUE print dashboard report view. The new print view is compatible with most printers, PowerPoint, and PDF writers.
EDIT CONTACT All contact information, editing, and responsibility handover can be accessed from within the one location, simply click on the contacts name to bring up all contact management options.
SUPPORT All contact information, editing, and responsibility handover can be accessed from within the one location, simply click on the contacts name to bring up all contact management options. Please refer to the Support tab for a copy of the latest training manual or call Jasmine for assistance. If you have any suggestions about future enhancements or improvements, please let us know. Our technical team will review all development ideas, and as always, we roll-out product updates to all of the CS-VUE community – meaning everyone benefits. Warm regards, Jasmine Dickenson Customer Relations Manager