A company which spent more than $1 million trying to stop foul smells escaping from its rendering plant has been fined $13,000 after another stinky airborne discharge.
A company which spent more than $1 million trying to stop foul smells escaping from its rendering plant has been fined $13,000 after another stinky airborn
The illegal Agnew fire in
Clive included rolls of polypropylene bird
netting
These three recent sentences bring the total
amount of fines so far this year to $125,090. Last month
Hawke’s Bay dairy company, Maxwell Farms Ltd, was fined
$48,750 for illegally discharging 80,000 litres of effluent
into a stream which turned it green. In February Hawke’s
Bay Protein Ltd was fined $38,500 for illegal odour
discharges.
This week, Judge Melinda Dickey has
sentenced three more companies for various breaches to the
Resource Management Act 1991.
Johnny Appleseed
Holdings Ltd has been fined $14,400 after an
illegal spray drift of a hazardous agrichemical hit a
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