LET’S LEARN FROM TOUGH DEADWOOD DECISION
Wow, those were tough penalties imposed by the Environment Court (see story ‘Big fine/costs for NZFWDA over RMA breaches’ in the Feb 2020 issue of NZ4WD) on a first offence for a breach of water quality!
It certainly appears that four-wheeling was to be made an example of. Compare that Wellington decision to a relatively recent Auckland prosecution that collectively fined a landowner and the manager of a property developer the sum of $67,000 for discharging sediment off a construction site in
