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A biologist with specialist knowledge in business and the environment, Dr Lin Roberts, has been appointed to the Environmental Risk Management Authority (ERMA), Environment Minister, Marian Hobbs, announced today.
- Marian Hobbs
- Environment
Further moves to improve the implementation of the Resource Management Act and reduce compliance costs have been announced by Environment Minister, Marian Hobbs.
- Marian Hobbs
- Environment
Mr Speaker, I move that the Resource Management (Aquaculture Moratorium) Amendment Bill be now read a first time
- Marian Hobbs
- Environment
A multi-storey development across the street, a motorway designation through the backyard, or noise from the nightclub next door - all factors that could potentially ruin the perfect property.
- Marian Hobbs
- Environment
Hello and welcome to the launch of the Ministry for the Environment’s new guide 'thinking of buying a property - some things to think about.’
- Marian Hobbs
- Environment
Environment Minister Marian Hobbs and Green Party health spokesperson Sue Kedgley today announced a $500,000 programme of dioxin soil testing for up to 45 residential and former sawmill sites and air testing for up to 15 industrial plants around the country.
- Marian Hobbs
- Environment
Environment Minister Marian Hobbs has paid tribute to yachtsman and environmentalist Sir Peter Blake.
- Marian Hobbs
- Environment
Mr Speaker, I move that the Hazardous Substances and New Organisms (Genetically Modified Organisms) Amendment Bill be now read a first time.
- Marian Hobbs
- Environment
Applications for environment centre funding have poured into the Ministry for the Environment from the Bay of Islands to Invercargill.
- Marian Hobbs
- Environment
Applications for environment centre funding have poured into the Ministry for the Environment from the Bay of Islands to Invercargill.
- Marian Hobbs
- Environment
Controls imposed on genetic research will ensure that no animals used as bioreactors can end up in the food chain, Environment Minister, Marian Hobbs said today.
- Marian Hobbs
- Environment
Green Party co-leader Jeanette Fitzsimons is quite wrong in her conclusions about the government's response to the Royal Commission on Genetic Modification, Environment Minister Marian Hobbs said today.
- Marian Hobbs
- Environment
The government has completed its response to the 49 recommendations from the Royal Commission on Genetic Modification, Environment Minister, Marian Hobbs said today.
- Marian Hobbs
- Environment
At the end of October the Government announced its key decisions on the recommendations of the Royal Commission on Genetic Modification. Today, I want to talk to you about those decisions in some detail and to outline next steps.
- Marian Hobbs
- Environment
¡§HSNO ¡V Let¡¦s make it work better¡¨.
- Marian Hobbs
- Environment
I see you have invited the same keynote speakers to Christchurch as were invited to WasteMINZ in Auckland last year. Brian and I should be flattered that we have been given the opportunity of an encore.
- Marian Hobbs
- Environment
I see you have invited the same keynote speakers to Christchurch as were invited to WasteMINZ in Auckland last year. Brian and I should be flattered that we have been given the opportunity of an encore. I notice that our order of speaking has been changed. Is this politeness due to the fact that Brian is such a hard act to follow?
* A year later and what’s changed? Well I have.
- Marian Hobbs
- Environment
New guidelines will see environmental issues considered alongside economic objectives when trade agreements are negotiated, Trade Negotiations Minister Jim Sutton and Environment Minister Marian Hobbs announced today.
- Marian Hobbs
- Environment
Sand, Sea, Surf, and Settlements - words that most New Zealanders eagerly relate to.
- Marian Hobbs
- Environment
As Minister for the Environment, I have a vision to make our clean green image a reality
- Marian Hobbs
- Environment
"a picture is worth a thousand words".
- Marian Hobbs
- Environment
Landfill fires and the 'backyard burning' of such rubbish as plastics and treated timber would be banned under a proposed national environment standard to reduce the amount of dioxins released into the environment.
- Marian Hobbs
- Environment
Thank you for inviting me here today to discuss the development of an Oceans Policy.
- Marian Hobbs
- Environment
New Zealand has not made a strong-enough commitment to the environment over the past 10 years according to findings from the Rio+10 community consultation released today by Environment Minister, Marian Hobbs.
- Marian Hobbs
- Environment