Court backs green groups, overturns Ruataniwha 'factual fiction'

Court backs green groups, overturns Ruataniwha 'factual fiction'
By Pattrick Smellie Dec. 12 (BusinessDesk) - A High Court judge has ordered the board of inquiry for New Zealand's largest irrigation scheme, the Ruataniwha Water Storage Scheme in Hawke's Bay, back to the drawing board on the out-clause it created to allow 615 larger farms to dodge a stringent new water quality rule relating to nitrogen leaching into waterways. The decision is a significant win for the Royal Forest and Bird Protection Society, the Hawke's Bay and Eastern Fish and Game Councils and the Environmental Defence Society, all o...