Advice & Info
For further advice and information please select a topic below.
- Public information sessions
- A Home Energy assessor will be available at the public library regularly, to provide information and answer your questions.
Call us to find out more.
- A Home Energy assessor will be available at the public library regularly, to provide information and answer your questions.
- Getting the most from your wood burner
A well managed fire produces more heat and less air pollution. This factsheet has information
and advice that will help you get more, for less »- Read New Zealand Home Heating Associations (NZHHA) article: A Guide to Good Wood »
- Watch NZHHA Burn Brighter video on YouTube »
- Types of clean heating appliances available
- A clean heating appliance is one that produces little or no air pollution and is efficient to run. Under the Warm Up New Zealand: Heat Smart programme, there are a variety of systems to choose from. Read more »
- Local service providers
- The problem with 'older' solid fuel burners
- Open fires and older solid fuel burners are far more polluting than ‘modern’ woodburners. Tighter emission criteria and technological advances mean that modern solid fuel burners emit considerably less suspended particulate than 'older' models. These older models are typically older than 2004, which was when the tighter emissions criteria were introduced in Canterbury. Replacement of these older woodburners, as well as open fires, will help Ashburton achieve the National Environment Standard for Air Quality.
- Winter air pollution and the effects on our health
- Many urban areas in New Zealand experience poor air quality, primarily due to home heating in winter. Read more »
Air Pollution factsheet »
- Many urban areas in New Zealand experience poor air quality, primarily due to home heating in winter. Read more »
- National air standards
- The Ministry for the Environment has set National Environmental Standards for Air Quality that Ashburton must meet. The standards include a requirement that Ashburton must only have a maximum of three exceedances of the PM10 standard by 2016 and one exceedance by 2020. You can see how many exceedances Ashburton has had this winter on our home page.
- Map of Ashburton Township - Clean Air Zone 1
- Clean Heat Ashburton brochure
- Environment Canterbury - Ashburton Air Rules Guide for Domestic Home Heating