Court decision sets up a big year for freshwater

Court decision sets up a big year for freshwater

Analysis: Canterbury is, once again, putting freshwater issues front and centre – not just for the province itself but arguably for the country, in an election year. Three days before Christmas, the High Court found Canterbury’s regional council, ECan, errantly included a rule in its regional plan permitting farm pollution, under certain circumstances. But the Environmental Law Initiative, which took the judicial review, didn’t get everything it…