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A whitebait farm to be built at Westport Harbour will be allowed to discharge contaminated water into the Buller River for 30 years. New Zealand Whitebait Ltd’s planned farm is gaining momentum with the granting of resource consent from the West Coast Regional Council and a $2 million of Government funding. The grant requires a governance group made up of West Coast leaders to have wide-ranging oversight of the project. Regional council compliance team leader Colin Helem said the application to discharge water into the Buller River was not publicly notified because the effects on the environment were deemed to be minor at most. The consent conditions were still being finalised, he said.
Auckland Council’s
Retrofit Your Home customers will soon be receiving refunds in relation to their Retrofit loan interest payments.
Auckland Council Group Treasurer John Bishop says the council suspended new applications for the Retrofit scheme, and stopped charging interest to existing customers, when it discovered errors in calculating the loan interest payments and has been working to remedy the situation.
Mr Bishop says that when looking into the interest error, the council also identified some potential issues relating to legislative and compliance requirements of the scheme.
“We are now at the point where we can start issuing refunds to customers,” says Mr Bishop. “Due to the complexity of working through 20,500 customer accounts, we will be managing refunds in tranches over the next few months.”