Why couldn't our quality of life be like this every day?

Xmas day 2017 in Tuakau, North Waikato.

What a stunning, extremely hot, sunny day on 25th December 2017 was.
We had a WHOLE day of no putrid rancid odours from the odour producing facilities in Tuakau, Tuakau Protein rendering plant in Lapwood Road and Envirofert composting/clean?fill plant in River/Geraghtys Road, Tuakau.
We had NO road noise and NO smelly putrid rancid odours from the many noisey trucks that travel past our houses towards these odour producing facilities.
This could only mean that these two facilities were not working.
Oh how life could be if these two wrongly positioned and council endorsed odour producing facilities were taken out of Tuakau and located in appropriate locations, not within residential areas.
The councils in their wisdom have taken noisey smelly trucks out of going through Tuakau township and are now allowing noisey smelly trucks to travel Whangarata Road/Pokeno Road from Pokeno to Tuakau that the Council are making residential? Go figure?
Allowing these odour producing facilities that employ only a few jobs is the ruination of Tuakau, that with the right sort of people, could make Tuakau a great place to live and bring up kids.
Instead these odour producing facilities, with a Tonkin+Taylor odour assessment report, are now recommending a 1km minimum ‘separation distance’ from their odour activities.
This 1km minimum radius WOULD extend over private property that will have consequences with property values, potential buyers and quality of life! This is theft of residents biggest asset, their property while these odour producers make huge profits.
Dirty discharges into Waikato River.
Many complaints from people using the river.
Odours drifting over Tuakau, there are no odours that come from these 2 places that are pleasant.
Tuakau Proteins with many owners over 40+ years have had numerous complaints and meetings with the community.
Envirofert have had only had a few meetings but many complaints over their 18 years.
Health issues could also be associated to these 2 places?
Tuakau could be such a pleasant place to live without these odour producing facilities.
If these two odour producing facilities get this 1km odour buffer which the council are calling conservative it could mean that the odour zone could extend over the whole Tuakau.

Earn your success based on service to others, not at the expense of others! 

Envirofert NON-COMPLIANCES AGAIN!

How many non-compliance’s are the Councils going to allow Envirofert to get away with? Are the Councils not there to protect Tuakau? Isn't that what we pay huge rates for?  The non-compliance’s started the year Envirofert started in 1999 when the owner Gary McGuire did not survey the boundaries. Then drain diversion was not built to the approved plan, Tuakau COO2 Revision 5, which is now flooding the neighbours farm, bund location was not built to the approved plan, and is actually over the boundary in the neighbours land by metres, illegal dumping on clean?fill, buried plasterboard (now causing leachate and odours) dirty discharges into river, waste closer than 50 metres to river. The list goes on when Envirofert was under the ownership and directorship of Gary McGuire(local) and Andrew Bayly(MP for Hunua), 1999-2014. New owners and directors and the non-compliances are still happening!
The Councils seem to not want to fix the non-compliances, only giving them abatement notices and a $1000.00 fine over many non-compliances. Could this be because Councils use Envirofert to get rid of their waste and don't care about the environmental damage it is doing on the land that then drains into the Waikato river.
21 November 2017- could this be another non-compliance? Residents on Geraghtys Road have noticed an increase of public car and trailer traffic with green waste going into Envirofert's entrance(geraghtys road). Resource conditions state 'No Public"?  Also noted by residents, public entering Envirofert after hours taking dumped James Hardie Board and Winstone’s plasterboard sheets! 

Envirofert have yearly audits and reviews every 3 years if required. Again why has the council not done their job instead of just asking Envirofert 'have you done this or that' and take Envirofert's word! Gary McGuire has great difficulty in working to rules and regulations. Council's have been taken for a ride by McGuire and now all the non compliances are now coming to the surface, pardon the pun! Council's have failed Tuakau! Envirofert's resource consents expire in 2019 and should not be given another 20 years  to continue with all these non compliances. It makes a mockery of consents!

A Council saying "All of these compliance rules and regulations are such a bother. We never thought that we actually had to read councils policies and procedures."
Just tick the appropriate box and that's the job done!

Envirofert video on TV1 News!

Envirofert Sales and Technical Advisor, Elenka Nikoloff states that plasterboard that is put in landfills becomes a smelly mess and does not break down.

Envirofert have taken plasterboard for many years for gypsum but have buried plasterboard on their site that has now become a smelly mess.Below are photos taken when Envirofert took plasterboard for shredding and used the gypsum. A small percentage of this plasterboard was shredded but most was buried. Envirofert sales and technical advisor is now admitting "buried plasterboard never breaks down and becomes a smelly mess" that is why Tuakauians are now living with buried plasterboard smell (rotten eggs, rotorua smell).

Wisdom understands that in a world of ecological interconnectedness there is no such thing as "away".
We don't throw things "away",  we simply put them someplace where they defile the land, foul the water, pollute the air or change the earth's atmosphere, ENVIROFERT!

UPDATE March 2018, RYAN MARRA CEO has left as well as others!

The rats are leaving the sinking ship??

Another so called expert that was gunna do this and gunna do that!


Envirofert article in the local paper 'The Post'.
February 2018, no meeting, no minutes from September 2017 meeting. This is typical of Envirofert, they never do what they say they are going to do! Gunna do this gunna do that but never happens. The new concrete pad, new receiving shed has not even been started. Marra stated it would be done this Summer. Envirofert’s consent expires in March 2019, they have to get it into Council 6 months before. Will this next 20 year consent be a non-notifiable, Council makes that decision. 

2018-Elenka Nikoloff, Envirofert sales manager and technical advisor gone!
2018-Garrick Ashford, Envirofert new project manager gone!
2018-Kim Willoughby, Envirofert director gone!

Any industry that seeks to make a profit doesn't make a HONEST profit when part of it comes at the EXPENSE of the DESTRUCTION of neighbours assets. A profit taken from others pockets isn't PROFIT, it's THEFT!

Envirofert Clean?fill/Composting facility-Are they telling lies?

On Monday night, 18 September 2017, at Whangarata Hall, Ewing Road, a Tuakau meeting was held for the community that are affected by the many issues from Envirofert composting/clean?fill operation in River Road, Tuakau. Odour/dust/pollution/smelly trucks/noisy trucks/dirty smelly discharge into Waikato River/ and numerous seagulls.

One of the many issues that was raised was the dumping of GIB Board in the clean?fill.
Ryan Marra the CEO of Envirofert stood in front of the many residents that attended this meeting and stated "we no longer take GIB Board and dump it on the clean?fill, it is shredded and the gypsum is added to the compost".
For many years, approximately from 2000-now, 6 days a week, truck/trailer loads, Envirofert have taken GIB Board to reuse and even remine, as Andrew Bayly stated.
Piles of GIB Board became a great big smelly heap as when it gets wet it gases off (hydrogen sulphide/Rotorua /rotten egg smell) and the council advised Envirofert to remove it or put under cover.
Some were shredded and reused but most was buried even though Envirofert told the council it was taken off site. Neighbours saw this buried.

The  photo below was taken on Thursday 21 September 2017. Winstone truck dumping on the clean?fill site. What do you think?? 

SOMETIMES the grass is greener on the other side because it has been fertilised by BULLSHIT!

Tuakau Community Meetings

Envirofert Compost/Clean?fill and Tuakau Protein Rendering Plant Liaison Meetings.

These meetings are like a dementia meeting, it is like nothing has happened between the last meeting and the current one. Councils seem to think every day is a new day, it is like the last 40+ and 18 years do not exist. Same old same old and nothing gets fixed? Same excuses, same failures, same questions, councils denials, Envirofert & Tuakau Proteins denials.

The plants and council seem to think that residents living in the wind shadow of these 2 odour producing facilities should live with the ever-changing upgrades.
These all should be done before these odour producing facilities are given consents.
Reports done by Tonkin&Taylor, Beca, Golder should be truthful and not rely on the facilities input just because they pay for the reports.
Councils should research the affects on communities before giving consents and then not monitor or enforce as this seems to be the normal. Just wait for complaints, first 10 phone calls, Council seem obliging but then as more complaints are recorded the complainant becomes a pain in the neck and problem to the council.
These odour producing facilities should NOT be closer than 10 kms to residential homes.

Tuakau Protein (was Waikato By-Products,Graeme Lowe Waikato, Waikato By-Products) and their neighbour Envirofert Composting and Clean?fill have meetings for the Tuakau community to discuss with management and councils the issues, (odour,dust,pollution,smelly & uncovered trucks).

Tuakau Protein have had 6 monthly meetings for many years because their consent conditions state that they have to.
Envirofert Compost/Clean?fill do not have the same consent conditions.

In July 2017 the community received a letter from Tim Clarke, (the person that has been holding these meetings with Tuakau Proteins for approximately the last 6 years), that Envirofert would be holding a meeting on Monday 24 July 2017 at 6pm at the Whangarata Hall.

Tim Clarke stated in the letter that 'this letter has been sent to 400 addresses in close proximity to the Envirofert plant.'

Some residents have told us that they certainly did not receive this letter and some live right next door on Geraghtys Road?
How many other people did not receive this letter that live close to Envirofert and why did these residents not receive this letter?

Envirofert meetings seem to have stopped after only 2 meetings.


     
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Council's rules under fire 'THEM VERSUS US'.

Article in 'The Post Newspaper', many ratepayers have stories about the 'culture' of council's in New Zealand. The university training of staff is with an institutional mentality, not in the real world and also with an open checkbook mentality. Definitely with a 'them versus us' attitude and treat ratepayers like they have no brains. Even when they are proven wrong they still will not fix problems or issues (if they did they would not have well paid jobs). Councils are there to protect the community and environment,that is definitely not the case. The council's bend over backwards to cover-up their mistakes even to the point of misleading words and not answering questions. The ratepayers pay their wages that are substantial and in the end as a ratepayer you have no rights! Councils promote 'Have Your Say' and 'We Hear You' but then don't listen. Councils most used words are 'robust & transparent conversations' and that is misleading and lies. The decisions are already made by the time public become involved with submissions. Submissions are a form of finding out what 'Joe Public' wants and then they counteract joe public's concerns. Can someone provide documents that we the public have actually changed the councils minds on anything? Councils have already made up their minds, ticked the boxes and been lobbied by the few that will make profits! Who can afford to take the councils to Environmental Court when we the public are paying the council to take us to court, doubledipping? The council's rules and regulations are to make sure that we the ratepayers FAIL!
Surely this is a human rights issue. Councils seem to discriminate ratepayers over consent holders. 

You know our name, not our story. You've heard what we have done, not what we have been through.

Envirofert clean?fill and Waikato Regional Council-Part1 & Part 2.

THE POST NEWSPAPER ARTICLE. 2017.

NOT A PURE CLEANFILL, THIS WAS HAPPENING WHEN ENVIROFERT WAS OWNED AND OPERATED BY ANDREW HENRY BAYLY (NOW MEMBER OF PARLIAMENT FOR HUNUA) AND GARY PETER MCGUIRE. 1999-2014.
Waikato Regional/District Council's seemed to have given special treatment to Envirofert. Could this be because of the many issues that have been found over the years 1999-2017 involving WRC and WDC and Envirofert? Many residents have complained to the council's, (photos and videos), over dodgy loads on the clean?fill site and the councils seem to want to cover it up, saying that they have allowed it. The residents are unable to prove these loads as the council's words are changed to fit the crimes?? We the residents can only report what we see and smell and then it is up to the councils to monitor and enforce. This is only done when a complaint is followed up and that is not often.  Drain diversion has not been constructed to the approved and signed off  Barker & Associates plans(1998)and the clean?fill bund location has been built on the boundary instead of 10 metres from the boundary to the approved and signed off Barker & Associates plans (1998). This was bought to the attention to the Councils that will not fix this problem. 

We would say that we are sorry for the councils complete incompetence in grasping reality but we can't say that with a straight face!