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Central Wind windfarm resource consent application: all-of-government submission for lodging

To: Horizons Regional Council

Date: 28 August 2008

Name of submitter: Trevor Mallard; Minister for the Environment

Submission on land use consent to establish, operate and maintain the Central Wind windfarm (Proposal P30 – 1299, Ruapehu District Council, and Land Use Consent RM080065, Rangitikei District Council) by Meridian Energy Limited.

I refer to the application by Meridian Energy Limited for land use consents, to establish maintain and operate a windfarm on the Volcanic Plateau in the Central North Island, New Zealand.

Pursuant to Sections 96 and 141A(4)(c) of the Resource Management Act 1991, I wish to make the attached submission on behalf of the Crown. This submission in support of the application was endorsed by the Cabinet Economic Development Committee on 6 August 2008 [EDC Min (08) 15/4].

Read Minister for the Environment's submission on the Central Wind resource consent application online (HTML)

Read the Cabinet Policy Committee paper on Central Wind windfarm resource consent application: all-of-government submission for lodging

Last updated: 4 September 2008