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Waimate

MGI Irrigation ask for letter of support to be retracted.

SIRRL’s resource consent application to build a waste incinerator in Glenavy/Waimate included MGI Irrigation’s support letter. However, MGI did not approve the letter used by SIRRL and has subsequently asked for it to be retracted.MGI owns the land adjacent to the site proposed for the Project Kea incinerator. MGI uses the land to carry water for irrigation via an open

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Waimate

SIRRL claim support from WasteCo, MGI Irrigation and Alpine Energy.

SIRRL claims that WasteCo will take the metal hydroxide sludge (MHS) produced at the Project Kea plant and treat it through their facility before the toxic material is landfilled. However, the facility they claim they will use to treat the MHS is still in the design phase.  The Project Kea incinerator will produce approximately 1 tonne per day of Metal

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Waimate

Land purchased for proposed W-t-E plant – on a flood zone.

SIRRL has announced that it has purchased farmland in Glenavy/Waimate for the proposed Project Kea waste incinerator, claiming it as the “perfect location.” But is it? Hundreds of kilometres from the waste source, population base, and infrastructure to support it, why choose productive farmland within a food-producing region in a flood zone to site a vast rubbish incinerator? SIRRL’s resource

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