Environment Canterbury and Waimate District Council request more information from SIRRL. ECan stated that the requested information is required to assist in preparing the Key Issues report, which the Council will be required to provide to the EPA under S149G RMA.
The 22-page request by ECan included Dr Emily Wilton’s assessment of SIRRL’s air quality emissions report, for which Wilton requested further information from SIRRL. Dr Wilton’s notes highlighted “inconsistencies” between the company’s operational, technical overview and air quality assessment reports in SIRRL’s resource consent application.
"It's important for the people to have answers" - Paul Taylor, SIRRL.
In an April 2023 Stuff article, director Paul Taylor said SIRRL had gone to the “next level” in many of the reports they commissioned, which “were not necessarily required”, but they did it “because we felt it’s important for the people to be able to have answers to those questions.”
As July 2024 rolls around, ‘the people’ still await ‘answers to those questions’, suggesting SIRRL continue to believe information about this proposal is ‘not necessarily required’.