AB Lime has applied for seven new consents and to vary an existing consent for its site at Kings Bend, about 5km east of Winton. In its application, it says it wishes to become “the premier landfill for the southern regions of the South Island.” It is seeking to receive an uncapped amount of waste at its landfill, where it can currently receive 100,000 tonnes of waste a year.
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Hearing Commissioner chair Allan Cubitt at the AB Lime Ltd resource consent hearing at the Invercargill Working Men’s Club on Wednesday. A resource consent hearing, before independent commissioner Allan Cubitt, began in Invercargill on Monday morning and continued on Wednesday.
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Mackenzie District councillors have asked for more time to fully understand Plan Change 18 before voting on it. (File photo)
A decision on how to protect native species in the Mackenzie Basin has been delayed as councillors say they don’t properly understand the proposal. The district council proposal, known as Plan Change 18, is to designate vast swathes of the Mackenzie as areas of natural significance, and mostly stop new clearance and irrigation of that land, as well as making it more difficult to clear native vegetation in the rest of the basin. At a Mackenzie District Council meeting on Tuesday, councillors were due to vote on whether to adopt the recommendations, which were made by independent commissioners.
George Empson captured this image of a westerly at sunset in the Mackenzie near Tekapo.
An inaugural festival celebrating literature, arts, the landscape and community will be held in the Mackenzie later this year. The Mackenzie Book and Art Festival, create. will take place on September 17 to October 3, with 40 events, aiming to ‘’bring the community together, attracting people from all over the country to our beautiful district and have a world-class celebration of New Zealand’s artists and authors’’, a release from festival organisers says. Authors taking part in the festival include Ockham New Zealand Book Awards finalist Alison Jones, two of the creators of Landmarks publication Owen Marshall and Grahame Sydney, and Otematata Station’s Phillippa Cameron with her new book