Environmental Policy

• Section 17 of the Resource Management Act 1991 states that: 'Every person has a duty to avoid, remedy or mitigate any adverse effect on the environment arising from an activity carried on by or on behalf of that person.’
• Section 15 of this Act states that: 'No person may discharge any Contaminant into water; or Contaminant onto or into land in circumstances which may result in that contaminant entering water.'
• The Act's definition of 'contaminant' includes farm fertilizer.