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The Minister for the Environment, Hon Simon Upton, is extremely concerned that open burning lingers as a traditional approach to reduce the volume of waste in the landfills of many smaller communit

  • Simon Upton
  • Environment

The Minister for the Environment, Hon Simon Upton, has confirmed that the target date for bringing into force the Hazardous Substances and New Organisms Act (HSNO) is now 1 July 1998.

  • Simon Upton
  • Environment

The efficiency of the Resource Management Act will be improved by a raft of minor technical improvements which came into force yesterday, the Minister for the Environment, Hon Simon Upton, said tod

  • Simon Upton
  • Environment

The Minister of Commerce, Hon John Luxton, and Minister for the Environment, Hon Simon Upton, today said that there was good news and bad news in the results from a study on the impact of the Resou

  • Simon Upton
  • Environment

New Zealand's call for the progressive inclusion of developing countries in any legally binding commitment on greenhouse gases is a long standing one, according to Environment Minister Simon Upton.

  • Simon Upton
  • Environment

New Zealand will be advocating a uniform greenhouse gas reduction target of up to 5% below 1990 levels, the Minister for the Environment, Hon Simon Upton, said today.

  • Simon Upton
  • Environment

While the average Kiwi would prefer to deal with authorities as little as possible, few really want our country to become an environmental 'wild west', the Minister for the Environment, Simon Upton

  • Simon Upton
  • Environment

The Minister for the Environment, Simon Upton, announced today that the Government has agreed to a phase-out schedule for methyl bromide.

  • Simon Upton
  • Environment

New Zealand's Environment and Associate Foreign Affairs Minister, Hon Simon Upton, is travelling to Tokyo today to attend a Ministerial meeting on Climate Change.

  • Simon Upton
  • Environment

Simon Upton, Minister for the Environment, announced today that New Zealand had for the first time secured a position on the Bureau (the governing body) of the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Ch

  • Simon Upton
  • Environment

The Minister for the Environment, Simon Upton, warned today that the commitment to better environmental outcomes could well be lost sight of because of an increasingly restive debate about ineffici

  • Simon Upton
  • Environment

The latest information on New Zealand's approach to the risk of climate change is now available.

  • Simon Upton
  • Environment

Environment Minister Simon Upton today announced details of successful New Zealand pilot studies of a groundbreaking new technology that can destroy persistent organochlorine chemicals such as diox

  • Simon Upton
  • Environment

The Minister for the Environment, Hon Simon Upton, is concerned that Macraes Mining Company Ltd is blaming planning delays for the deferral of their expansion plans.

  • Simon Upton
  • Environment

The Minister for the Environment and Associate Minister of Foreign Affairs and Trade, Hon Simon Upton, has called for developed country Parties to the Framework Convention on Climate Change to meet

  • Simon Upton
  • Environment

"ACT's 'support' for the referendum on retirement savings is the most exquisite piece of Clayton's support I have ever seen," the Environment Minister, Simon Upton, said today.

  • Simon Upton
  • Environment

Today's decision on the application to import rabbit calicivirus as a control for feral rabbits will necessitate a concerted effort on the part of the Ministries of Agriculture and Environment to e

  • Simon Upton
  • Environment

Today's decision on the application to import rabbit calicivirus as a control for feral rabbits will necessitate a concerted effort on the part of the Ministries of Agriculture and Environment to e

  • Simon Upton
  • Environment

Environment Minister Simon Upton has challenged Labour's Energy spokesperson Pete Hodgson to spell out just which bit of the European Union's greenhouse gas policy he supports.

  • Simon Upton
  • Environment

Mr Sutton's claims about the RCD response plan are cheap politics of the sort for which he is renowned.

  • Simon Upton
  • Environment

State Owned Enterprises Minister Jenny Shipley, Forestry Minister Lockwood Smith and Environment Minister Simon Upton are today releasing material requested under the Official Information Act on Ti

  • Simon Upton
  • Environment

New Zealand will supply a package of relief assistance to Tonga in the wake of Cyclone Hina, Associate Foreign Affairs Minister, Simon Upton announced today.

  • Simon Upton
  • Environment

The Ministry for the Environment has today released its first ever Findings of the Annual Survey of Local Authorities.

  • Simon Upton
  • Environment

The Governor General yesterday signed a water conservation order for the Kawarau river and its tributaries.

  • Simon Upton
  • Environment