McKnight v NZ Biogas Industries Ltd - [1994] 2 NZLR 664

Resource Management — Offences and penalties — Strict liability — Discharge of contaminant — Defendant responsible for construction and operation of waste disposal plant — Constructed without engineering advice — Failure of plant resulting in escape of contaminant — Whether "allow to escape" in definition of "discharge" means awareness of actual discharge or of facts from which escape could be expected — Whether offence one of strict liability — Resource Management Act 1991, ss 15, 338 and 341.