EIA Permit

An Environment Impact Assessment (EIA) Permit is the permission granted to an Applicant that is conducting an activity, project or development that is likely to cause significant environment impact. 

The EIA permit is to protect the environment by ensuring that the regulatory authority objectively considers all potential environment impacts and their mitigation measures. 

The EIA process provides an opportunity for all relevant stakeholders, including the public, to participate in the decision-making procedures of the proposed project. 

This is specified in Tier 3 of the Environmental Compliance Services;

• Water Reticulation System instalment 
• Stream Development – relating to rock revetments, gabions and diversion
• All dredging 
• Foreshore Development and Protection (Gabions, rock revetments and Groynes and Coastal Protection Units)
• Filling of Wetlands
• Excavation of sloping land 
• Introduction of new species or biocontrol
• Tourism and Commercial Development
• Motu Development
• Manufacturing Industries
• Construction of an airport, airstrip or helicopter pad
• Construction of a harbour, port, jetty, slipway, dock, wharf, pier or bridge
• Mining
• Construction of a dam, reservoir, artificial lake, hydro-electric scheme, or large-scale irrigation projects
• Large-scale alternative energy production
• Commercial logging or a saw milling operation
• Reclamation of the sea, foreshore, streams or creeks
• Waste management facilities, or treatment, including storage, disposal and transfers 
• Trans-boundary movement of waste or pollution