Invitation for comments
On 2 March 2026 the Mahinerangi expert panel released Minute 3, recording their decision on which parties are to be invited to comment.
Minute 3 of the expert panel (PDF, 831KB)
The closing date for comments was 30 March 2026.
Late comments received
On the 10 April 2026 the panel decided to accept a late comment.
Comments received
Minister for Climate Change comments (PDF,41KB)
Minister for Energy comments (PDF, 68KB)
Minister for Economic Growth (PDF, 305KB)
Minister for Infrastructure comment (PDF, 47KB)
Minister of Conservation comment (PDF, 360KB)
Minister for the South Island comment (PDF, 114KB)
Clutha District Council comment (PDF, 289KB)
Dunedin City Council comment (PDF, 354KB)
Sue Keen and Lindsay Brown comment (PDF, 580KB)
Otago Regional Council
- Otago-Regional-Council-s53-comments-Mahinerangi-Wind-Farm-30-March-2026.pdf (PDF, 688 KB)
- Appendix-A-Ecology-Memorandum-Rossaak,-A.pdf (PDF, 304 KB)
- Appendix-A1-Ecology-Memorandum-Rossaak,-A.pdf (PDF, 390 KB)
- Appendix-B-Fish-Passage-Memorandum-Morgan,P.pdf (PDF, 549 KB)
- Appendix-B1-Second-Fish-Passage-Memorandum-Morgan,P.pdf (PDF, 502 KB)
- Appendix-C-Hydrogeology-Memorandum-Dally,-V.pdf (PDF, 830 KB)
Te Rūnanga o Ōtākou
- Mahinerangi Fast track s53 comment Te Runanga-o-Otakou (PDF, 179 KB)
- Final TIA Mahinerangi windfarm for Mercury updated 26th March (PDF, 2 MB)
- Appendix 1 Mahinerangi Wind Farm Stage 2 (PDF, 485 KB)
- Appendix 2 Mahinerangi Wind Farm Stage 2 (PDF, 251 KB)
- Appendix 3 Mahinerangi Wind Farm Stage 2 Evaluation of proposed conditions (PDF, 494 KB)
Department of Conservation
Applicant's response to comments received
On April 15, 2026 the applicant provided a response to comments.
- Part 1 - Memorandum of Counsel for Tararua Wind Power Ltd - response to s 53 comments and s 51 report (PDF, 324 KB)
- Part 1 - Supplementary legal submissions on behalf of Tararua Wind Power Ltd (PDF, 396 KB)
- Part 2-1 SOE Luke Gordon (Civil Engineering) (PDF, 1 MB)
- Part 2-2 SOE Stephen Rate ((Vegetation, Wetland and Terrestrial Invertebrate Ecology) (PDF, 649 KB)
- Part 2-3 SOE Benjamin Ludgate (Aquatic Ecology) (PDF, 211 KB)
- Part 2-4 SOE Stephen Fuller (Avifauna) (PDF, 17 MB)
- Part 2-5 SOE Tony Payne (Lizards) (PDF, 258 KB)
- Part 2-6 SOE Gavin Lister and Simon Button (Landscape and Visual) (PDF, 257 KB)
- Part 2-7 SOE Richard Turner and Sarah Edwards (Planning) (PDF, 272 KB)
- Part 2-8 Technical Memorandum Siiri Wilkening (Acoustic) (PDF, 860 KB)
- Part 3.1 Comments Received from Local Authorities (PDF, 257 KB)
- Part 3.2 Comments Received from Te Rūnanga o Ōtākou (PDF, 300 KB)
- Part 3.3 & 3.4 Comments Received from Department of Conservation (Administering Agency) (PDF, 308 KB)
- Part 3.5 Comments Received from Ministry for Culture and Heritage (Administering Agency) (PDF, 66 KB)
- Part 3.6 Comments Received from Ministry for the Environment (Administering Agency) (PDF, 47 KB)
- Part 3.8 Comments Received from Neighbours (Owners and Occupiers) REDACTED (PDF, 119 KB)
- Part 3.9 Comments Received in Support or Neutral (PDF, 97 KB)
- Part 4 A.12 Attachment 1 Wildlife Act Conditions (PDF, 733 KB)
- Part 4 E.01 Clutha District Plan RM1409 Variation Conditions (PDF, 1 MB)
- Part 4 E.02 Clutha District Council Proposed Conditions (PDF, 719 KB)
- Part 4 E.03 Index Otago Regional Council Consent Conditions (PDF, 64 KB)
- Part 4 E.03 Otago Regional Consent Conditions (PDF, 6 MB)
- Part 5 - B.14 Wildlife Approval Addendum Falcon REDACTED (PDF, 8 MB)
- Part 5 - C.01 Environmental Construction Management Plan (PDF, 6 MB)
- Part 5 - C.02 Earthworks Management Plan (PDF, 5 MB)
- Part 5 - C.08 Ecological Monitoring and Management Plan (PDF, 496 KB)
- Part 5 - C.09 Water Quality Management Plan (PDF, 1 MB)
- Part 5 - C.10 Rehabilitation Management Plan (PDF, 4 MB)
- Part 5 - C.11 Wetland Monitoring and Management Plan (PDF, 1 MB)
- Part 5 - C.12 Wetland and Aquatic Offsetting Plan (PDF, 2 MB)
- Part 5 - C.13 Native Fish Recovery Plan (PDF, 2 MB)
- Part 5 - C.14 Avifauna Management Plan (PDF, 10 MB)
- Part 5 - C.15 Lizard Management Plan (PDF, 14 MB)
- Part 5 - C.16 Woody Weed Management Plan (PDF, 2 MB)
- Part 5 - C.17 CarTen and EpiChi Management Plan (PDF, 4 MB)
- Part 5 - C.19 Mammalian Pest Control Plan (PDF, 2 MB)