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 that greenhouse gas emissions are taken into account...

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 of the proposed activity.” “This is a very...

“Dioxins(a group of three main families including dioxins, furans and polychlorinated biphenyls or PCB’s) are considered to include the most toxic synthetic chemicals known, and they are always produced in burning municipal and hospital waste. They cause cancer, birth defects and immune damage.” – Doctor Crispin Langston, Waimate GP. Langston’s immediate concern, should the plant be constructed, is for the town of Glenavy and its school just 2.5...