Week 6 - People
Completion requirements
1. People
1.1. Environmental Effects
Under the legislation, environmental effects cover a huge range of activities including:
- Noise and vibration.
- Discharge to air, water and environment.
- Emission of contaminants.
- Odours.
- Visual effects particularly where they are negative.
- Overshadowing other properties.
- Increased traffic flow.
- Reduction of privacy.
When roads and transportation routes are built, the following affects on people may be observed:
- Separation of communities from new roads through the physical barrier they represent
- Change of nature of the aesthetic environment – landscape impacts
- Increases in pedestrian or road traffic resulting in safety effects including stranger danger
When the proposal for the new 400kV transmission line was submitted, public opinion played a role in the eventual rejection of the proposal. A letter from Catherine Tuck (Chairperson of the Whitford residents and ratepayers association) was taken into account.
The response from the electricty commission was as follows:
"There are alternatives that provide the same level of electricity security but are less expensive than Transpower's proposal to build a new 400kV line between Whakamaru and Auckland, according to Roy Hemmingway, Electricity Commission Chair. The Electricity Commission has therefore issued a draft decision to turn down Transpower's proposal to build the 400kV line"