Keeping and filing consent records
A misplaced quarry consent issued by the Whangarei District Council (WDC) in 1988 started a two-decade-long legal battle between the quarry owner and the Council....
Author : QM Mag
Environmental regulatory changes
Mike Doesburg, Partner at Wynn Williams who specialises in environmental and resource management law. As the meme goes: in 1920 we took children out of...
Early Hitachi excavators
This story is not an exhaustive history of Hitachi’s excavators, but more of an overview of how things progressed from their first steps after WW2,...
Time to get serious about silica
Australia is getting serious about Respirable Crystalline Silica (RCS) and so must we, says Wayne Scott, CEO of MinEx. From last month (July), manufactured stone...
RMA – will tinkering result in better outcomes?
Mike Doesburg, Partner at Wynn Williams, who specialises in environmental and resource management law, talks about the ongoing RMA reforms and the uncertainty in the...
A jam jar packed conference
Jayden Ellis, Chair, AQA. Sorry if you missed QuarryNZ – it was a heck of a conference. We are using this edition of Aggregate News to...
Wetland or minefield?
When the National Environmental Standards for Freshwater (NES-F) were passed in 2020, the wetland provisions felt like a hospital pass of a hand grenade to...
The advantage of reliable production data
Andy Loader, First Rock Consultancy. We in the extractive industries understand the vital need for aggregates; with the average usage being approximately eight to 10...
At last – a vision for minerals
The Government’s new vision for the minerals sector aims to increase national and regional prosperity, provide the minerals needed for new technology and the clean...