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A judge has outlined his reasons for dismissing charges against two companies Environment Southland attempted to prosecute in the Environment Court. ....
Environment Court Judge Brian Dwyer is presiding over a case in Invercargill. Two companies accused of discharging contaminants onto a rural property from an old industrial site in Gore have been taken to the Environment Court. The trial, before Judge Brian Dwyer started in Invercargill on Wednesday and pits Environment Southland against Johnstone Construction Limited and Marshalls Excavating Limited. Both companies have been charged with discharging a contaminant onto or into land from industrial or trade premises. An Environment Southland summary of facts outlining the case says in 2017 an industrial site in Mersey St, Gore was being redeveloped, with Johnstone Construction engaged to demolish existing structures and build a service station. In turn, Johnstone Construction engaged Marshalls Excavating to dispose of waste from the site, contaminated or otherwise. ....
Kavinda Herath/Stuff 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. ....