High Court Here We come!
19 December 2019Hi all, we have had our decision come through as this article explains but I would like to clarify the last paragraph that our options are not limited to just refining conditions.
We also have a strong case to take to the High Court.
Sustainable Otakiri agrees wholeheartedly with the view that this expansion should have been publicly notified as this is an industrial scale expansion that will severely impact Tauranga city councils ability to plan for future rates and roading requirements.
By allowing a creep on existing resource consents to such an astronomical degree without public consultations would be devastating to our local traffic woes.
And could set a dangerous precedent for consent applications across the country.
Not only that, we have worked hard to raise awareness of the massive plastic production this business will cause and we are willing to keep up the good fight.
As such we call on the public to fund us, tell us if you will support our view that we need to appeal in the High Court.
Tell them your voice matters, support us and if we raise enough funds we will carry this all the way, as it stands our legal bills are already mounting.
If you're opposed to the public not being consulted on the actual long term affects and the massive increase in trucking this would allow (without consultation) into Tauranga- Please donate.
If you are opposed to 3.7million single use plastic bottles being produced in our region every single day (where they produced none before) - Please donate.
If you think that companies who apply to produce massive quantities of plastic should be required to take financial responsibility for the whole life of what they produce. - Please Donate.
See this extract from the following article.
"Environment commissioner David
Kernohan disagreed with the findings of
his colleagues and said he was of the
opinion that the water take application
and variation to land-use conditions
applied for should be declined.
''l recognise that mine is the minority
view,'' said Kernohan.
He said his concerns were not about the
water take but rather the adverse effects
on the environment of the end use of the
plastic bottles manufactured on-site and
that the resource application should have
been considered as industrial and
therefore be a non-complying activity
with wider public notification."
We will be setting up a Pledge me page to raise the first $35,000 we will require in the coming days or you can deposit here to help with our immediate mounting legal costs.
https://givealittle.co.nz/cause/funding-our-appeal-to-save-our-water
#nomoreplastic #notournz #notourfuture #water #environment #breakingnews #saveourwai
https://i.stuff.co.nz/business/118255435/appeals-against-chinese-water-bottling-plant-dismissed