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Waitaki MP does an about face on Waste-to-Poison’s plant
On September 27, 2023, at a public pre-election meeting in Waimate, Miles Anderson, National candidate for Waitaki, was asked whether he supported the Waimate incinerator proposal. His response was no. On an earlier occasion, following the re-lodgement of SIRRL’s resource consent application, Anderson was asked whether he would submit against the proposal if the Waitaki electorate opposed it. His response was “Yes,
Waste-to-poison’s plant included in Fast-Track list.
South Island Resource Recovery Ltd (SIRRL) has emerged in the Canterbury quotient of the long-awaited Fast Track Approvals Bill list. You could reasonably predict that many in the long-suffering Waimate community will feel cheated and disgusted at the consideration of a gigantic rubbish-burning incinerator on precious farmland as critical infrastructure. For three years, the company that wants to build the
Developer behind waste pyrolysis trial wants to keep it quiet.
Scrap metal recycler Rob Ofsoski, owner of a company conducting trials at a waste-to-energy (WtE) plant in the Bay of Plenty, says he doesn’t want anything written about it at this stage. That’s for a number of reasons, mainly “commercial sensitivity”, he says. “I’m not talking to anyone.” Ofsoski is the ultimate owner of Rainbow Mountain Renewable Energy, which received