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A Southland farmer was fined for breaches of the Resource Management Act, when he appeared in the Environment Court at Invercargill.
A Southland farmer has been fined $16,250 after a hundred truck loads of contaminated soil was dumped on his farm. Bradley Yorke, 54 of Wyndham, entered guilty pleas to two breaches of the Resource Management Act for an incident where more soil than allowed was dumped on his farm, and turned out to be contaminated. In the Environment Court at Invercargill on Monday, Yorke admitted discharging a contaminant, namely asbestos fibre soils, heavy metals and/or polycyclic hydrocarbons, onto or into land from an industrial or trade premises, when not expressly allowed to do so by a national environmental standard or other regulations or a resource consent between May 1, 2019 and July 24, 2019.
The leak at a plant in Hāwera was potentially lethal to staff, emergency services personnel and nearby residents and was New Zealand's worst fish kill event, a judge has observed.
Silver Fern Farms fined $337k over potentially lethal ammonia leak
24 Feb, 2021 06:58 AM
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RNZ
Silver Fern Farms has been fined $337,000 over an ammonia leak at its Hāwera plant that was potentially lethal to its staff, emergency services personnel and nearby residents.
The February 2020 leak is also being described as likely the worst single-point freshwater pollution event in terms of fish killed in New Zealand history.
In a departure from conventional practice, proceedings began today with a karakia from a Ngāti Ruanui kaumātua.
The iwi is manu whenua of the Tawhiti Stream, which bore the brunt of the ammonia spill.