Rotorua — Rotorua home owners now have more choices to upgrade their old wood burners and open fires to cleaner heating methods under Bay of Plenty Regional Council's Hot Swap scheme.

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Rotorua — From today (Tuesday 1 May) a new rule prohibits the sale of properties with solid fuel burners that do not meet clean air standards.

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Rotorua — From Tuesday a new rule prohibits the sale of properties with solid fuel burners that do not meet clean air standards.

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Rotorua — Rotorua residents can learn more about the variety of life in their own backyards and how to restore it at a Bay of Plenty Regional Council workshop this weekend.

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Rotorua — A new intervention technique to prevent sediment releases of nitrogen and phosphorous from the beds of Rotorua’s lakes will be tried in Lake Rotoehu in late January.

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Rotorua — Bay of Plenty Regional Council has released its consultant's report on potential land management and land use change in the Lake Rotorua catchment to improve the health of the lake.

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Rotorua — Envirogroups from around the region were invited to an annual Enviroschools hui in Rotorua hosted by Otonga School last week.

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Rotorua — [Rotorua District Council chief executive Peter Guerin's 'Council Talk' column from today's Rotorua Daily Post] When it comes to land and subdivision development Rotorua is building a real competitive edge over many cities and districts.

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Rotorua — The Minister for the Environment, Nick Smith, has released information on New Zealand-wide council consent processing for the 2010/11 year.

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Rotorua — The name ‘Rotorua’ is to be spelled out in giant letters on Lake Rotorua as part of a floating wetlands environmental initiative.

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Rotorua — Minister for the Environment Dr Nick Smith launched a 3000 square metre floating wetland in Lake Rotoehu this week as part of the Rotorua Lakes restoration programme.

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Rotorua — A health warning has been issued for parts of Lake Rotorua and Lake Rotoiti.

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Rotorua — Dr Cornel de Ronde, geologist/geochemist at GNS Science, lead the January 2011 project that investigated the bottom of Lake Rotomahana and uncovered ledges of silica, 60 metres deep, which are believed to be the base layers of the legendary Pink Terraces.

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Rotorua — A live monitoring buoy sitting quietly in Lake Rotorua is providing comprehensive information on lake conditions – and an insight into climatic factors that may be influencing algal bloom developing on Lake Rotorua recently.

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Rotorua — Bay of Plenty Regional Council is taking a closer look at what’s in backyard ornamental ponds in the Rotorua area to protect lakes from potentially harmful invaders.

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Rotorua — A pilot project has been launched on Lake Rotoiti to harvest green algae infesting the lake - and to possibly turn it into useful products.

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Rotorua — More than 70 people attended an open day to discuss the draft Air Quality Control Bylaw in Rotorua last week – the majority supporting measures to clean up Rotorua’s air according to Environment Bay of Plenty and Rotorua District Council staff.

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Rotorua — On Saturday [27 March] at 8.30pm, people in Rotorua and around the world turned their lights off for one hour to take action on global warming.

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Rotorua — The health of Lake Okaro is improving and blue green algae levels are down, according to the latest report on Rotorua lakes water quality.

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Rotorua —

The Maori Party is pleased that Government is finally taking responsibility for decades of cumulative pollution, in the Rotorua lakes restoration programme announced today.