Mike Sanford

We are very excited to announce, our Southland Chair, Cathie Cotter has been successful in being appointed as a member of the National Council of Rural Support Trusts (RST). Cathie replaces Gavan Herlihy from the Otago Rural Support Trust. Southland Rural Support Coordinator Lindsay Wright says, “It

Leading New Zealand energy companies Meridian Energy and Contact Energy are co‐funding a $2 million feasibility study to investigate the potential of a large scale, renewable hydrogen production facility in the lower Southland. Contact CEO Mike Fuge said the hydrogen production, export and dry year

Hopes the thousands of tonnes of toxic waste stored in Mataura would be removed this year are now gone. The Environment Court mediation between the Environmental Defence Society and the waste’s producer New Zealand Aluminium Smelters and their owner Rio Tinto continued this week. The society had hop

Two Southern Institute of Technology (SIT) Bachelor of Environmental Management year-3 students, Brennan Mair and Xinxin Zhang, were selected to present at the “Weathering the Storm” conference in Invercargill last week, highlighting quality research which is taking place locally at undergraduate le

Southland Mayors and their Deputies, the Chair of Environment Southland and Deputy together with local iwi met with Cabinet Ministers Grant Robertson and Megan Woods in Invercargill today. Mayor of Gore District Tracy Hicks, speaking as the Chair of the Southland Mayoral Forum said the meeting was u

Some residents in Otago and Southland woke to freezing temperatures and fresh snow with more falling this morning. The unusual weather event comes as parts of the North Island are recording temperatures above 20 degrees. MetService meteorologist Mmathapelo Makgabutlane said a cold front was making i

Southern Institute of Technology (SIT), Degree Graduation Ceremony takes place today at the Civic Theatre in Invercargill; the guest speaker is a successful entrepreneur and SIT graduate who says studying gave her the self-confidence to start her own company, and helped pave the pathway to success f

Recently released fantastic survey results from farmers in the Aparima catchment in Southland confirm the value of farm environment plans, Invercargill MP and National’s associate Agriculture spokesperson Penny Simmonds says. The survey was of 151 dairy and sheep and beef farmers in the Aparima Comm