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A controversial North Taranaki composting and worm farming business has flunked its latest environmental monitoring report.

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Taranaki composting business eyes appeal of consents decision Robin Martin © Getty Remediation NZ has been told by a hearing panel that it will not get fresh resource consents as the business is damaging both health and the local environment. The boss of a composting and worm farming business in North Taranaki says hes very likely to appeal a decision which removes his right to operate. Remediation NZ has been told by a hearing panel that it will not get fresh resource consen...

The future of a controversial organic composting site in North Taranaki is in doubt after the consents it needs to continue operating were not renewed.

Te Kōhanga Āhuru pest control involves three North Taranaki iwi - Ngāti Tama, Ngāti Mutunga and Ngāti Maru. Te Kōhanga Āhuru project administrator Marlene Benson said the project would create sustainable employment for the wider whānau and hapū, and ensure that the forests within their rohe are safe for kiwi. The three iwi involved in the project have a deep attachment to the land, she said. Experience Purangi conservation trust general manager Rebecca Somerfield said the funding w...

Supplied Waste processing company Remediation NZ is disappointed New Plymouth District Council is withdrawing support for its North Taranaki Uruti waste disposal site. New Plymouth’s household food waste will be trucked to a north Waikato facility for at least another two years after the district council pulled its support for a controversial Taranaki composting operation. Since 2019 the district’s food scraps have been shipped 300km to Hampton Downs while the local processor Remediation N...

Photo: Screenshot In an odd move, the council is looking to formally withdraw its submission in favour of renewing Remediation NZs consents - more than two weeks after they were considered at a public hearing. The company has a long history of non-compliance with consents and Ngāti Mutunga, neighbours, environmentalists and oil and gas industry watchdog groups oppose its consents being renewed. New Plymouth Council wanted to process its food waste collection at Uruti and it along with companie...

For many years it has suffered leaks into the stormwater system during heavy rainfall. For two years the district council has warned against collecting shellfish and using the popular Urenui River mudflats after testing detected high levels of E coli bacteria. This summer Ngāti Mutunga escalated those warnings with a rāhui on swimming, fishing and shellfish collecting in the river and estuary. Ngāti Mutunga rūnanga kaitiaki Rodney Baker said replacing the current system was essential. ...

Plastic clips from freezing works washing up on beaches from East Cape to Southland 7 Mar, 2021 10:19 PM 10 minutes to read RNZ By Anusha Bradley forRNZ They are showing up in fish stomachs and in beaches across the country, but how are oesophagus clips escaping the meatworks? It starts with a very puzzled fisherman in The Catlins. "Wondered why the big kahawai I caught recently was so skinny ... until I checked the stomach contents and found it full of plastic," he posts on Facebook. Advertise...