The Timaru Herald put the following question to candidates running in the Waimate local elections. “The Waste-to-Energy plant proposed for the district has been a major topic of discussion over the past year. Do you support it or are you against the proposal and why/why not?” Read Responses Here At the Waimate Event Centre meet the candidates meeting, the candidates were

SIRRL lodged a resource consent application with Waimate District Council and Environment Canterbury in September 2022.  The application was rejected due to a lack of information, including a cultural impact assessment report (CIA). SIRRL has now relodged their resource consent application again without a site-specific CIA. The second application comes just days before new RMA requirements come into force, ensuring

Environment Canterbury (ECan) confirmed it had returned South Island Resource Recovery Limited’s (SIRRL) resource consent application due to “insufficient information” being supplied regarding the proposed activities of the plant and their effect on the environment. ECan consents planning manager Aurora Grant explained the “key concern” held by the council was a “lack of information regarding the scale and potential effects