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South Island Resource Recovery Ltd (SIRRL) has emerged in the Canterbury quotient of the long-awaited Fast Track Approvals Bill list. You could reasonably predict that many in the long-suffering Waimate community will feel cheated and disgusted at the consideration of a gigantic rubbish-burning incinerator on precious farmland as critical infrastructure. For three years, the company that wants to build the huge ‘Project Kea’ waste-to-energy incinerator has publicly made...
Scrap metal recycler Rob Ofsoski, owner of a company conducting trials at a waste-to-energy (WtE) plant in the Bay of Plenty, says he doesn’t want anything written about it at this stage. That’s for a number of reasons, mainly “commercial sensitivity”, he says. “I’m not talking to anyone.” Ofsoski is the ultimate owner of Rainbow Mountain Renewable Energy, which received a discharge to air resource consent in 2022...
Viridor has categorised the fire as a ‘significant incident’. This means it is considered less serious than a ‘major incident’, which would require it to be reported to the Health and Safety Executive as a ‘dangerous occurrence’ under 2013 RIDDOR regulations. Four fire engines and around 25 firefighters attended the scene. In their incident report Viridor wrote: “The Beddington WTS fire was a significant event that was managed...