Some cases that he presided over for the Court , and later on boards of inquiry , included the Tongariro Power Development Flood Control Scheme reconnecting appeals , geothermal power station appeals , the Waikato Expressway Designation Hamilton Section Appeals ; the King Salmon Board of Inquiry , the Basin Reserve Board of Inquiry , Canterbury water allocation cases for the Canterbury Regional Council , the Te Kuha Coal mine inquiry on the West Coast and the Rena wreck consents in the Bay of Plenty . Whiting also heard and determined a number of strategically important cases on policy instruments for infrastructure and natural resource use around Lake Taupo and the Waikato River
Rena wreck consents in the Bay of Plenty
Rena oil spill
Gordon Whiting