A Waimate District Council survey asking residents if they support a proposed $350 million waste-to-energy plant has received more than 700 responses with an emphatic majority stating their opposition. The result of the survey, which ran from November 5 to 19, showed 94% of respondents were against the proposal. The council received 735 responses to the question: “Do you support a waste-to-energy plant within the Waimate District?” Of those, 697 (94%) answered no, 28 (3.4%) answered yes, and 10 were undecided. The survey was launched on November 5, the same day councillors agreed that mayor Craig Rowley should write a letter to the Government requesting it remove the proposal from South Island Resource Recovery Limited (SIRRL) for a waste-to-energy plant from the list of projects to be fast tracked.
