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Rawhiti Pork is dumping effluent in our rivers and it could take years to stop them

Could take years to shut down polluting piggery - council

https://www.rnz.co.nz/news/national/496447/could-take-years-to-shut-down-polluting-piggery-council

While the "volume and frequency" of the discharge has decreased, effluent is still leaving the Waikato farm.

In the photo on RNZ there are two overflowing tanks with a bank behind them. You can spot the tanks on Google Maps, next to the middle shed:

6 comments

Ascyron

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How the hell is it that the RMA has, by all accounts, been the largest single drag on construction in this country and is one of (the many) causes of the housing crisis, yet it can't even prevent literal shit being dumped in our rivers "for years"?

I despair for this country. We're fucked. I'd say bring on the election but whoever gets in, it'll be more of the same.

Ilovethebomb

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Yup, I don't think there is any single party that is willing to take bold steps to fix the underlying issues this country faces, the biggest of which is the insane cost of housing.

We should be building state houses by the thousand, breaking the stranglehold Fletcher building has on the economy, and putting in medium and high density housing along every public transport corridor.

Meanwhile, National are beating the drum about roads, some of which we need, to be fair, Act are being Libertarian shitheads as usual, Winnie is shitstirring as usual, and the three headed clusterfuck won't stop trying to divide the country along racial lines.

And while this is going on, we're discharging raw effluent into our waterways, as usual.

flambonkscious

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Another quality rant!

Ilovethebomb

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I forgot about TOP, but can you blame me?

SamC

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Kyrgizion

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Effluenza strikes again.

NoRamyunForYou

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I understand that there must be a whole lot of hoops to jump through etc, but how is it not possible to shut something down for such blatant wrongdoings?