A major strategy to resolve issues with water shortages and future use in Canterbury has not yet won support from the Waitaki District Council.
About 60 adult rare lowland longjaw galaxias were released at a special "translocation celebration" into the Waianakarua River yesterday by Te Runanga o Moeraki chairman Patrick Tipa, Department of Conservation Otago conservator Marian van der Goes and Waitaki MP Jacqui Dean.
The public is being given the chance to comment on proposals by three developers to set up 16 new dairy farms in the Omarama and Ohau areas of the Waitaki basin.
A bylaw banning "boozing and cruising" in the Waitaki district, possibly a first in New Zealand, will be investigated by the Waitaki District Council next year.
Opposition is growing against plans to establish 16 new dairy farms in the Omarama and Ohau basins.
An internet-based tax refunds company is proposing to make 67 people redundant at its call centre in Oamaru.
A public meeting has been called in Twizel to give people the chance to learn about and debate proposals for 16 new dairy farms, with up to 17,850 cows, intended for the Ohau and Omarama areas.
A director of two companies wanting to develop dairy farms in the Omarama area has broken his silence because of what he calls "hysteria" over the proposals.
Strawberry jam was an extra for the thousands to enjoy at Waimate's Strawberry Fare on Saturday.
A free Christmas dinner is being planned in Oamaru again this year after the inaugural event last year proved successful, with 15 volunteers putting on a repast for 35 people.
The Ahuriri rural fire district could be split from the Waitaki district and put into an enlarged South Canterbury district.
Three companies which want to develop 16 dairy farms in the Omarama and Ohau areas have already been granted approval by the Waitaki District Council.
Further investigations into a new $400 million cement plant near Weston have been given the go-ahead as Holcim (New Zealand) Ltd prepares a case for its parent company in Switzerland.
Concept plans are being prepared to transform the Omarama Memorial Hall into a multipurpose community centre.
A $100 million dairy plant planned near Glenavy is not connected with a proposal to develop 16 new dairy farms in the Omarama and Ohau areas.
International opposition to plans for 16 dairy farms with up to 17,850 cows in cubicles, in the Omarama and Ohau areas, is resulting in a flood of submissions to Environment Canterbury.
The future of an agreement under which Meridian Energy Ltd agreed to supply water to irrigate up to 25,000ha in the Mackenzie Basin is now uncertain under Government proposals to overhaul the electricity industry.
An investigation will start next week into the land the Waitaki District Council wants to use for the Forrester Heights subdivision, on Cape Wanbrow.
Waitaki First has issued a challenge to the Government to "walk the talk" and get involved in the resource consents process to establish 16 new dairy farms with up to 17,850 cows at Omarama and Ohau in the upper Waitaki Valley.
Establishing an Oamaru waste-disposal station for camper vans and caravans has been delayed while the Waitaki District Council works through issues with the facility's location and design.
