Hawke s Bay orchardist again fined $14,000 for spray drift hitting cyclist
20 Apr, 2021 02:14 AM
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Johnny Appleseed director Paul Paynter said a second fine is unacceptable . Photo / Warren Buckland
A Hawke s Bay orchardist fined twice in four months for illegal spray drifts hitting cyclists says he wouldn t have planted trees had he known a cycle path was to be placed next to his orchard.
Johnny Appleseed Holdings Limited was fined $14,400 this week after a hazardous agrichemical hit a cyclist - the company s second prosecution in four months.
It s one of three Hawke s Bay companies fined a total of $37,840 this week for various breaches to the Resource Management Act 1991, in prosecutions brought by Hawke s Bay Regional Council.
The illegal Agnew fire in
Clive included rolls of polypropylene bird
netting
These three recent sentences bring the total
amount of fines so far this year to $125,090. Last month
Hawke’s Bay dairy company, Maxwell Farms Ltd, was fined
$48,750 for illegally discharging 80,000 litres of effluent
into a stream which turned it green. In February Hawke’s
Bay Protein Ltd was fined $38,500 for illegal odour
discharges.
This week, Judge Melinda Dickey has
sentenced three more companies for various breaches to the
Resource Management Act 1991.
Johnny Appleseed
Holdings Ltd has been fined $14,400 after an
illegal spray drift of a hazardous agrichemical hit a
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