The Environment Court in NZ has disallowed a large windfarm on the basis of general and Maori landscape values. The farm would have been in an area of landscape which represents a waka or canoe to the local people, Ngati Hineuru. This was stage 2 of a farm, with the first part already being allowed. Nevertheless the decision is significant where landscape and tangata whenua values have overidden the arguments about the urgent need for renewable energy.
Will it be appealed? In part, the decision talks about the need to protect the value the tangata whenua have in the mountain range on which the wind farm was to be placed. An amendment to the RMA to include "cultural landscapes" was specifically rejected several years ago.
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