Statements lodged with the Board of Inquiry

The Board of Inquiry has directed questions to Ministry for the Environment; Ministry of Economic Development; Electricity Commission; Energy Efficiency and Conservation Authority; and Te Puni Kōkiri. These statements were lodged with the Board of Inquiry on the date indicated.

Date Lodged
27 April 2009	Statement of Caroline Ryder (PDF, 343 KB)– Ministry of Economic Development, the Energy Efficiency and Conservation Authority, and the Electricity Commission
27 April 2009	Statement of Andrew Schollum (PDF, 206 KB) – Ministry for the Environment Appendix 1: National Institute of Water and Atmosphere – median annual average wind speed figures. (Available on NIWA’s website: https://secure.niwa.co.nz/climate-explorer/home.do ) Appendix 2: Energy Efficiency and Conservation Authority – renewable energy potential figures (PDF, 5.2 MB) Appendix 3: Ministry for the Environment – recent examples of strategies, plans and policy statements that are relevant to the generation of electricity from renewable sources (PDF, 97 KB) Appendix 4: Ministry for the Environment and Ministry of Economic Development – evidence given on behalf of the Crown at the Project Hayes Environment Court hearing: Crown legal submission - August 2008 (PDF, 1.41 MB) Crown legal submission - January 2009 (PDF, 70 KB) Statement of evidence of Philip Gurnsey - Ministry for the Environment (PDF 3.15 MB) Rebuttal evidence of Philip Gurnsey - Ministry for the Environment (PDF, 107 KB) Statement of evidence of Stuart Calman – Ministry of Economic Development (PDF 736 KB) Statement of evidence of John Gleadow – Electricity Commission (PDF 912 KB) Memorandum of Counsel for Ministry for the Environment on behalf of the Crown in response to questions to John Gleadow by Commissioner Fletcher (PDF 244 KB) Further supplementary statement of John Gleadow (PDF 930 KB) Statement of Evidence of Timothy George – Transpower (PDF 2.78 MB) Appendix 5: Ministry for the Environment – December 2008 update of greenhouse gas mitigation response and cost curves for energy. (This document is currently in draft form and not available to the public. Once the document has been finalised it will be made available on the Ministry’s website).
27 April 2009	Supplementary statement of Andrew Schollum (PDF, 101 KB)
2 July 2009	Submission on Proposed National Policy Statement for Renewable Electricity Generation (PDF, 2.06 MB) - Te Puni Kōkiri
3 August 2009	Further supplementary statement of Andrew Schollum –Ministry for the Environment (PDF, 248 KB)
3 August 2009	Supplementary statement of Richard Hawke – Ministry of Economic Development, the Energy Efficiency and Conservation Authority, and the Electricity Commission (PDF, 130 KB)
4 September 2009	Independent legal advice (Cowper Campbell) in response to the Board’s question directed to MfE “Do the provisions of a National Policy Statement take precedence over Water Conservation Orders where both are relevant considerations?” (PDF, 177 KB)

Last updated: 7 June 2011