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The Minister of Local Government has directed the Department of Internal Affairs to publish briefings and other advice on the Government's investigation into the performance of Environment Canterbury. Some deletions have been made to these published documents consistent with the provisions of the Official Information Act 1982 in relation to the withholding of information.

The papers are listed in date order, with the earliest at the top. To read a paper, click on the highlighted title below. The papers are all in .pdf format. You need to have the Adobe Acrobat Reader installed on your computer. You can download a free version from the Adobe site.

For further background see: Independent Review of Environment Canterbury.

1.	Briefing: Powers and process for Ministerial Intervention in a local authority under the Local Government Act 2002 (.pdf) 200k	14 September 2009
2.	Briefing: Draft letter notifying Environment Canterbury of investigation into Ministerial intervention (.pdf) 96k	24 September 2009
3.	Briefing: Update on work to consider requests for Ministerial intervention in Environment Canterbury and the Waitomo District Council (.pdf) 110k	2 October 2009
4.	Briefing for meeting with Minister for the Environment on the approach to investigating issues with Environment Canterbury (.pdf) 276k	19 October 2009
5.	Briefing for meeting with the Minister for the Environment and the Chair and Chief Executive of Environment Canterbury (.pdf) 337k	22 October 2009
6.	Briefing: Biographical information on possible commissioners (.pdf) 57k	11 February 2010
7.	Briefing: Implications of appointing commissioners to Environment Canterbury (.pdf) 108k	12 February 2010
8.	Briefing: Meeting with Ministers about the Government's response to the Environment Canterbury review report (.pdf) 63k	17 February 2010
9.	Talking points: Environment Canterbury Review (.pdf) 206k	22 February 2010
10.	Briefing: Meetings with stakeholders to discuss Environment Canterbury report (.pdf) 294k	23 February 2010
11.	Letter from Minister of Local Government to Minister for the Environment (.pdf) 92k	4 March 2010
12.	Aide memoire for Cabinet paper "Response to Review of Environment Canterbury" (.pdf) 260k	5 March 2010
13.	Briefing: Possible candidates for Environment Canterbury commissioners (.pdf) 92k	8 March 2010
14.	Letter from Minister of Local Government to Minister for the Environment (.pdf) 93k	24 March 2010
15.	Aide memoire: Environment Canterbury Cabinet papers on 29 March 2010 (.pdf) 177k	26 March 2010
16.	Briefing: Draft speech notes and key messages for House debate on the Environment Canterbury (Temporary Commissioners and Improved Water Management) Bill 2010 (.pdf) 311k	29 March 2010
17.	Notes: Environment Canterbury Press Conference (.pdf) 297k	30 March 2010
18.	Notes for joint press conference on Environment Canterbury (.pdf) 73k	22 April 2010