The Bills remove established environmental limits, enable more pollution by opening new rights not previously legally available to polluters, limit public standing to participate, as well as judicial review rights, hollow out existing accountability mechanisms, and establish potential conflicts with the Wildlife Act 1953.

We have filed an appeal against a key part of the recent High Court judgment concerning Environment Canterbury’s (ECan) rule allowing nitrate pollution.

ELI’s appeal focuses specifically on the Court’s interpretation of section 83 of the Resource Management Act, which the Court found prevented ELI’s judicial review challenge.

Although ELI was not successful on the specific grounds of the judicial review, the judgment delivers powerful clarity about the Minister’s legal duties to protect hoiho.

The High Court has found that Environment Canterbury (ECan) made an error of law when it allowed nitrate discharges from farming as a region-wide permitted activity in its regional plan.  

The Environmental Law Initiative (ELI) welcomes today’s announcement of a significant closure of the Northland spiny rock lobster (kōura) fishery, a long‑overdue response to the ecological crisis unfolding across northeast Northland. 

Submission on the establishment of Puketeraki mātaitai reserve in East Otago.

ELI says Fisheries New Zealand needs to act quickly to improve its long-term options for protecting hoiho, as the urgent hearing on emergency measures wrapped up today in the Wellington High Court.

ELI is in the High Court this week for an urgent hearing challenging the Minister for Oceans and Fisheries’ emergency set-net fishing closure, which ELI argues is inadequate to protect the critically endangered northern hoiho (yellow-eyed penguin). 

We’re calling on the government to take immediate action to prevent fishing-related deaths of critically endangered West Pacific leatherback turtle in New Zealand waters. 

Appeal challenges legal interpretation of HSNO and EPA’s approach to glyphosate risk assessment. 

Our submission to the DOC and Fisheries NZ consultation on the future of marine management in Kaikōura.

Z Energy has apologised for any confusion caused by aspects of its advertising campaign, which claimed it was moving with the times and in the business of getting out of the petrol business. 

The High Court has ruled that the Environmental Law Initiative (ELI) did not establish “a reviewable error” in the Environment Protection Authority’s (EPA) decision that grounds did not exist to reassess the herbicide glyphosate.

In ELI’s view, there are significant issues with the proposals and their underpinning analysis.

The most significant issue is the lack of a proper justification for the proposal that the Crown bear the proposed $3.76 million in annual costs associated with the on-board camera programme.

The legal and policy analysis underpinning this proposal is seriously deficient.

The Environmental Law Initiative (ELI) has filed High Court proceedings against the Minister for Oceans and Fisheries, challenging a recent decision to close a portion of northern hoiho habitat to setnet fishing.

We are appealing the recent High Court judgment which upheld Environment Canterbury’s decision to allow the MHV irrigation scheme to pollute water for 10 years.

The Environmental Law Initiative (ELI) says today’s announcement of an emergency three-month closure of set-net fishing around the Otago Peninsula by Minister for Oceans and Fisheries Shane Jones will protect some hoiho, while leaving others unprotected.