Environment

A judgement was handed down by the Environment Court this week, with the Whakatāne District Council set to receive 90 percent of the $38,500 fine.

The new solar farm is expected to be built in 2025, and estimated to generate up to 32 GWh of clean energy each year.

The council has apologised for inaccurate information.

A sand mining company has been ordered to pay $500,000 in costs to community groups who fiercely opposed its plans to mine near Pākiri beach north of Auckland.

An environmentalist group says it is trying to stay positive over a promise by Mount Maunganui industrial businesses to clean up their act.

Forty years has passed since the first Hui Oranga which united Pacific peoples and brought home the nuclear free and independent Pacific to Aotearoa.

The goal of protecting 30 percent of the ocean by 2030 was made at the UN Convention on Biological Diversity Conference (COP15) in December 2022.

Artist and activist Michel Mulipola, who hails from Lefaga and Vaimoso in Samoa, says the sinking of Manawanui is not a small thing for Samoan people or the moana.

A 200,000-litre diesel leak into Tafitoala reef, Samoa, raises concerns of long-term ecological risks from toxic chemicals, despite Navy assurances.

Labour is calling for the government to make clear what it knows and what it does not, about the potential for salvaging the HMNZS Manawanui.