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Motorimu Wind Farm Ltd. v. Palmerston North Council

Geography
🇳🇿 New Zealand
Year
2008
Document Type
Litigation

About this case

Filing year
2008
Status
Dismissed
Geography
🇳🇿 New Zealand
Court/admin entity
New Zealand → Environment Court
Case category
Suits against governments (Global) → Environmental assessment and permitting (Global) → Renewable projects (Global)
Principal law
New Zealand → Resource Management Act 1991
At issue
Appeal partial denial of resource consents for proposed wind farm
Topics
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Documents

Filing Date
Document
Type
Topics 
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09/26/2008
Decision

Summary

Motorimu Wind Farm appealed a city council’s partial denial of resource consents for a proposed wind farm. The council only approved only 75 of the 127 proposed turbines due to significant adverse landscape impacts. The Environment Court of New Zealand acknowledged that the additional turbines would markedly increase the wind farm’s contribution to New Zealand’s renewable energy needs but ultimately agreed with the city council and declined the appeal for all but 4 turbines.

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Group
Topics
Target
Policy instrument
Risk
Impacted group
Just transition
Renewable energy
Fossil fuel
Greenhouse gas
Economic sector
Finance