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Waste Management faces nine appeals The strength of opposition to Waste Management’s plan to build a massive landfill in the Dome Valley is gathering momentum, with nine appeals against the project lodged in the Environment Court by last week’s deadline. A government department, New Zealand’s largest conservation group and several influential Maori groups are among those objecting. The appeals were triggered when hearing commissioners voted four to one to grant a resource consent for the ...

Landfill opponents come together Environmental lawyer Andrew Braggins took questions from the crowd. Unity, hope and determination were on display in Wellsford today, when around 200 people packed into the Community Centre for an anti-landfill hui organised by Fight the Tip: Tiaki Te Whenua. An enthusiastic and vocal crowd loudly applauded vows from Fight the Tip members, MPs, councillors, iwi leaders and an environmental lawyer to fight Waste Management and Auckland Council and stop the develo...