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COVID Fast-Track Consent Declined For Southland Wind Farm
An independent panel has declined resource consent for a wind farm in Oware and Gore, Southland.
Contact Energy Limited applied for resource consent under the COVID-19 Recovery (Fast-track Consenting) Act 2020.
The decision comes 234 working days after the application was lodged with the Environmental Protection Authority.
The Environmental Protection Authority is not involved in the decision-making. We provide procedural advice and administrative support to the panel convenor, Judge Laurie Newhook, and the expert consenting panel he appoints.
Note that this application was made under the COVID-19 Recovery (Fast-track Consenting) Act 2020 and not the more recent Fast-track legislation.
Read the Southland Wind Farm decision report
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