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Former paper mill in Mataura, Southland.
Photo: RNZ / Rebekah Parsons-King
The waste - a by-product of aluminium production at the Tiwai Point smelter - releases deadly ammonia gas if it gets wet.
The Southland town s old paper mill site is situated next to the Mataura River.
The dross is a form of metal-rich scum off the top of aluminium processing pods, that is processed to remove the metal into a product that can then be converted into other materials, including ouvea premix which itself is a hazardous substance.
Environment Minister David Parker said the last bags of dross were moved from Mataura last Wednesday.
My overall answer would be no : Pundit on whether Ardern s Govt is open and transparent Newshub 5 hrs ago © Reuters/Newshub Nation. Ben Thomas and Jacinda Ardern.
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A political pundit says overall, the current Labour Government isn t open and transparent - despite portraying itself as being so.
Political commentator Ben Thomas comments come after a Radio New Zealand report earlier this week revealed that despite the Government saying before election 2020 it wouldn t give mining giant Rio Tinto a subsidy to prevent its Tiwai Point smelter from closing, it offered to cough up millions of dollars just months later.
It s been a slow winding back of that transparency and each Government is worse than the one before.
He added the Government had been very good at not giving in to Rio Tinto. The company had received hundreds of millions of dollars in direct and indirect Government subsidies over the years, including a $30 million bailout under former Prime Minister Sir John Key.
Despite receiving that money, Rio Tinto announced plans to shut up shop last year at its Tiwai Peninsula facility, New Zealand s only aluminium smelter, because of high energy costs - but later reached a four-year agreement with Meridian Energy to keep it open until at least the end of 2024.
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