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Water   Our directors have represented a diverse range of clients; some recent projects are outlined below.   Property Development > Education > Coastal and Marine > Water > Minerals and Mining > Prosecutions and Enforcement >   NSEL has a great deal of experience representing a wide variety of water users including diary farmers, irrigators, the mining industry, tourism operators and hydroelectric generators. The increased commercial demands that have been placed on New Zealand's water resources means that obtaining water allocation is now an extremely competitive exercise. The different range of water users also means that water diversion and discharges can face stiff opposition. NSEL has a proven track record in securing approvals for water allocation, diversion and discharge. Examples of projects include: • NSEL has recently been engaged to obtain a suite of consents from ECAN for the construction of a dam for the purpose of providing up to 3 million cubic metres of water storage for irrigation activities. • Secured various water permits for Foveran and Winterberg Farms including consent to take surface water at a rate of 320 l/s for spray irrigation, construct a 28 metre high dam and dam up to 5.5 million cubic metres of water by way of water harvesting. The conditions of the water harvesting permits were appealed on the basis of flow sharing requirements. The appeal was successfully resolved without the need to go to court. • Appeared before Commissioner Skelton (former Environment Court Judge) together with Royden Somerville QC on behalf of irrigation applicants seeking priority over Meridian Energy Limited's application for water allocation from the Waitaki River. Commissioner Skelton's priority decision confirmed that many of the irrigation applications had priority over Meridian's North Bank Tunnel project. Testimonial "I was absolutely dismayed when my resource consent applications for Foveran and Winterberg Farms were caught up in the 2003 Ministerial call-in. ECAN had not heard my applications by 2009. I engaged NSEL around this time to sort things out. I now have all consents in hand with a set of conditions that will enable the Winterberg dam to be commercially viable. In a regulatory environment that seems indifferent to the needs of business I really value NSEL's ability to achieve strong commercial outcomes." Bob Robertson, owner of Foveran and Winterberg Farms (CEO of Infinity Investment Group Limited)

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