Preston Russell Law

Russell Ibbotson (partner) specialises in environmental law and resource management for Preston Russell Law.

 

 

Providing professional advice in the area of resource management requires an understanding of the legal issues as well as an appreciation of the need to ensure applications, submissions, disputes or appeals are handled effectively, efficiently, and with the minimum of cost.

 

Russell also acts as consultant to the Invercargill City Council, Gore District Council, the Minister of Conservation (in the southern region), and a number of government departments including the Department of Conservation.

 

Russell is a resident partner in our Queenstown office, and travels to Invercargill, Wanaka, Central Otago,  Stewart Island and beyond to meet the needs of our clients across a full range of resource management issues and environmental law.

Russell has been involved in advising on a wide range of activities, including;

- Appearances before an array of territorial local and regional councils, the Environment Court and the High Court to achieve the best possible outcomes for Preston Russell Law clients and their business activities.

- advising on a wide range of issues for business and private clients arising from District Plans and Regional Plans, including submissions and hearings on coastal, fresh water, and management plans and strategies

- protection of significant indigenous flora and fauna and protection of significant habitats.
- protection of outstanding natural features and landscapes in the Queenstown and Wanaka areas from inappropriate subdivision and development.
- marine farming in Paterson Inlet, Stewart Island, and the tension with the values of Rakiura National Park
- conservation and proposals to take fresh water by tankers from Deep Cove and Doubtful Sound in Fiordland
- subdivision and property development proposals in and around the Queenstown, Wanaka, and Central Otago areas
- tourism and associated infrastructure including related consents and coastal permits in Southland, Fiordland, and South Westland
- habitat protection and the setting of minimum flows for the rivers and streams of Otago
- timber and the logging of southern native forests in private ownership and the SILNA lands
- mining and the development, monitoring, and remedial measures for the open cast mining of gold
- waste management and the proposed location, development, and use of a regional sanitary landfill for Southland
- quarrying and the opening up of several hard rock quarries to provide aggregate for a range of uses including roading

- gravel extraction and processing on river margins in Southland, Otago and Central Otago.

- water and the right to protect valuable farm land from flooding with extensive stopbanking systems;

 
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