A man who owed almost $3 million after abandoning thousands of bales of rubbish on land in Christchurch is now living in Australia. In September 2023, the High Court ordered Michael Denis Corcoran to pay his landlord $2.8 million. Now, he is being chased for bankruptcy.
Corcoran’s ERP Group company had been unlawfully storing baled waste at several locations in and around Christchurch. Mr Corcoran said he had been baling the waste for a proposed Waste-to-Energy plant in Waimate.
See below for more on Michael Corcoran and ERP Group’s involvement with Renew Energy Limited.