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DOC to appeal Mokihinui decision
DOC to appeal Mokihinui decision
The Department
of Conservation has today lodged papers with the Environment
Court appealing the decision to grant resource consent for
the Mokihinui Hydro Proposal on the West Coast.
Meridian Energy’s proposed 85 metre hydro dam will create a 14 kilometre lake, obstructing the Mokihinui River and inundating approximately 225 hectares of public conservation land in the Mokihinui Gorge.
DOC opposed the proposal during resource consent hearings arguing the hydro dam, the associated transmission line and other infrastructure would have significant environmental effects on the river, forests and threatened native wildlife.
DOC says the decision to grant resource consent does not adequately address the Department’s concerns and it is appropriate to take these issues to the Environment Court.
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