Keam v Minister of Works and Development - [1982] 1 NZLR 319

Water and water control — Water right — Application for a right to take geothermal water — Planning Tribunal refused water right holding that any proposed use of natural water should be a beneficial use and that the benefit which might follow from the exercise of the right sought was not sufficient to justify the detriment which might be caused by its use — Whether Tribunal had applied the policies and objects of the 1967 Act — Geothermal Energy Act 1953, ss 2 and 3 — Water and Soil Conservation Act 1967, ss 2, 20, and 23.