Environment & Resource Management

We’re not one dimensional.  Our team has represented and advised on every side of resource management disputes, and for third parties, regulators and consenting authorities.  Our lawyers have worked for the busiest district and city councils, and for environmental and residents’ groups.

This gives us unique insight.  We see 360 degrees of the regulatory, social and political terrain when we’re helping you strategise, so we can anticipate and deal with potential problems long before they arise. 

We speak the language of all the players you need to deal with in taking a big project to completion. We are the team you want when it comes to resolving disputes and tying together all the threads of a complex multi-stakeholder process.

Plus we are one of the most formidable environmental litigation firms in the country.

• Resource consenting for thermal, geothermal, hydro and wind power generation projects.
• Securing designations for infrastructure including gas pipelines and social assets such as schools and police stations.
• Concession applications under the Conservation Act for power and mining proposals.
• Litigation over fresh water allocation in the Waikato Region.
• Advising Auckland Council on its Air, Land and Water Plan, and its Proposed Unitary Plan.
• Judicial review of Council decisions to process applications without notice.
• Obtaining Plan Changes to facilitate development.
• Seeking enforcement orders from the Environment Court and prosecuting environmental offending.
• Advising Boards of Inquiry on call-in matters and policy development.