Sustain Our Sounds Inc v The New Zealand King Salmon Co Ltd - [2014] 1 NZLR 673

Resource management — Adverse environmental effects — Uncertainty as to effects — Whether adaptive management regime permitted — Resource Management Act 1991.

Resource management — Plan changes — Application to change salmon farming from prohibited activity to discretionary activity at certain sites — Whether Board of Inquiry entitled to take proposed consent conditions into account in considering application for plan change — Whether adaptive management approach permitted in face of uncertainty as to effects — Relationship between precautionary principle and adaptive management approach — Resource Management Act 1991, s 149P.

Resource management — Sustainable development — Whether economic and social effects to be balanced with sustainable development — Resource Management Act 1991, s 5.