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Wednesday <strong>June</strong> <strong>19</strong> 20<strong>19</strong><br />
Latest Christchurch news at www.star.kiwi<br />
News<br />
Inquiry into cruise ship impacts<br />
BAY HARBOUR<br />
Local<br />
News<br />
Now<br />
In Brief<br />
PAGE 3<br />
Fire rages, homes at risk<br />
ECan expects<br />
draft report<br />
next month<br />
• By Louis Day<br />
AN INVESTIGATION into the<br />
environmental impact of cruise<br />
ships in Akaroa is under way.<br />
The report, being conducted by<br />
the Cawthron Institute on behalf<br />
of Environment Canterbury,<br />
will outline the<br />
impact of cruise<br />
ships and provide<br />
recommendations<br />
on how to<br />
minimise them. A<br />
draft is expected<br />
Jim Dilley<br />
Harry<br />
Stronach<br />
by the end of next<br />
month.<br />
ECan regional<br />
harbourmaster<br />
Jim Dilley said<br />
the results of the<br />
inquiry could<br />
potentially<br />
influence the<br />
size of cruise<br />
ships entering<br />
Akaroa in the<br />
future.<br />
ECan initiated<br />
the inquiry after naval architect<br />
Harry Stronach highlighted<br />
cruise ships in Akaroa were<br />
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DISTURBANCE: An investigation into the environmental impact of cruise ships on Akaroa<br />
<strong>Harbour</strong> is under way.<br />
likely to be in breach of harbour<br />
regulations.<br />
The Regional Coastal<br />
Environment Plan limits seabed<br />
disturbance to a total of 50m 3<br />
in any three-month period for<br />
any coastal area outside an<br />
operational port.<br />
Akaroa <strong>Harbour</strong> is not classed<br />
as an operational port.<br />
Mr Stronach said any ship<br />
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that is more than 40,000 gross<br />
tonnes – of which 90 per cent of<br />
the cruise ships visiting Akaroa<br />
are – is likely to cause a seabed<br />
disturbance at least 10 times the<br />
permitted level, per visit.<br />
This would be a breach of the<br />
Resource Management Act’s<br />
section 338. Every person who<br />
commits an offence against this<br />
section could be sent to prison<br />
for up to two years or fined<br />
$300,000. Organisations can be<br />
fined up to $600,000.<br />
Mr Dilley told <strong>Bay</strong> <strong>Harbour</strong><br />
News ECan acknowledges cruise<br />
ships operating in Akaroa are<br />
likely to be in breach of the<br />
RMA.<br />
However, he said without any<br />
evidence, enforcement action<br />
was not warranted.<br />
RATES INCREASE<br />
Akaroa residents could see their<br />
rates bills increase by up to $520<br />
over the next four years. The<br />
potential rise comes after the city<br />
council signed off on an annual<br />
targeted rate of $130 to help fund<br />
the Akaroa Health Centre. The<br />
targeted rate would pay for $1.3<br />
million of the $5.9 million health<br />
centre. However, the amount of<br />
the annual fixed charge could<br />
lessen over the four-year period<br />
depending on funding for the<br />
health centre.<br />
SPEED LIMIT CHANGES<br />
Public consultation is now open<br />
on planned speed limit decreases<br />
in Sumner. The city council is<br />
proposing to change the speed<br />
limit in Sumner Village from<br />
50km/h to 30km/h and slow<br />
traffic on residential roads to<br />
40km/h. The plan will be open<br />
for consultation until July 8.<br />
Submissions can be made at<br />
www.ccc.govt.nz/the-council/<br />
consultations-and-submissions/<br />
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SHELLFISH LIMIT<br />
A public meeting on shellfish<br />
harvesting in the Avon Heathcote<br />
Estuary will be held today at the<br />
Mt Pleasant Community Centre<br />
at 7.30pm. The sustainability of<br />
the daily cockle and pipi limit<br />
will be discussed.<br />
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