Councils! bullying, sexism and intimidation. 2018 not 1818.

What has changed, nothing for centuries.

New Zealand government have announced that they are looking into bullying in the New Zealand parliament. 

An investigation needs to look into councils around New Zealand. They also have the same culture of bullying, intimidation and sexism towards ratepayers.

As ratepayers we have informed the WAIKATO  DISTRICT and REGIONAL COUNCILS for approximately 20 years of breaches of consent, unlawful waste dumping, trucks dropping product, noise, dust and air pollution and the bullying tactics from councillors, council staff and management has been overwhelming!

We have had proof of many breaches and pollution that we presented to both councils, after 20+ years and had our concerns scoffed at and consents been changed to fit the crimes and allows the facilities to do what it wants. Pollute and contaminate waterways and the air we breath. Smell it, you are breathing it! Health issues!

Richard Duirs did an independent investigation? (2018) for WRC, which ratepayers paid for. Can't see how that can be independent? His findings were that Envirofert Ltd, took unlawful waste from Watercare (Tuakau) and other facilities for 10 years. Envirofert was owned and operated at this time by GARY PETER MCGUIRE (TUAKAU LOCAL) & ANDREW HENRY BAYLY (now MEMBER of PARLIAMENT for HUNUA).  Local residents had told, photographed, and sent videos to the council about unlawful dumping for years and council, mainly David Stagg and Barry Campbell, have ignored the residents concerns. This investigation has only found the tip of the iceberg concerning illegal waste dumping. This part of the clean?fill that this waste was dumped in has now been capped, no longer in use. This will leach and drain into waterways for ever, eventually into the Waikato River and council have allowed this.
When David Stagg (WRC) was told by residents many years ago of the waste that Envirofert were taking from Watercare, his reply was 'No added chemicals', ignored again, only to find with Richard Duirs investigation that 10 years of illegal waste dumping has occured that will leach and drain into the Waikato River. If David Stagg had of actually done his job and followed up on our complaints it would have saved ratepayers a lot of money? Where are the 'Dirty Rivers' people with this? the silence is deafening!
Buried plasterboard has been covered up by councils, even after Envirofert told council that it had been taken off site. Envirofert admitted in 2017 that plasterboard had been buried  and top soil has been placed on top. This is now leaching and emitting hydrogen sulphide gases.

A new area within the clean?fill is being established to take more clean?fill, wonder how much will be unlawful? Councils have failed Tuakau by asking the offending facility self reporting questions and ticking the relevant boxes! Councils call this monitoring. 

We were told by David Stagg from WRC, that we would have to live with odours even though the consent states 'no odour beyond the boundary'. 

We have had many complaints, videos, and photos, blocked by council staff. Communicating with the council  CEO about the way we are treated and then told by the CEO that he has no problem with his staff attitude. If that is how the CEO sees this, then the whole council will have the same attitude. Institutional mentality?

Male complainants are treated with more respect and questions answered. Female complainants are fobbed off and scoffed at!

Councils threaten our health, and quality of life by not making these facilities work within the consent, (original).

With these attitudes towards ratepayers, sooner or later, somebody WILL take the matters into their own hands and somebody will get hurt!

Even a broken clock is right twice a day!

Envirofert & Councils fail community & environment AGAIN!

   1999, 2000, 2001, 2002, 2003, 2004, 2005, 2006, 2007,2008,2009,2010, 2011,2012,2013,2014,2015,2016,2017,2018 all non-compliant. WRC audits state many non compliance's, many reports, yearly, monthly, weekly not done, water testing not done, ground testing not done, compost testing not done, site management plans not done, recommended summary of actions not done, year after year very little has been fixed.

This is disgusting and councils are weak! Allowing Envirofert to continue to operate.

The short story of Envirofert's continuing failures!

In 2008 Envirofert, (owned, operated, shareholders and directors, Gary McGuire (Tuakau local) and Andrew Bayly (MP for Hunua)  approached Waikato Regional Council to take Watercare filter waste. WRC stated that if it was in WRC guidelines and Envirofert had the waste tested for heavy metals, contaminants and was within WRC guidelines, it was allowed. 
McGuire and Co did not get the waste tested, councils failed to monitor this in their yearly audits, even though they had knowledge of the unlawful waste. 
David Stagg of WRC was told about this waste being dumped at Envirofert years ago, his comment at the time was 'there are no added chemicals', so he was aware of this unlawful waste being dumped in the clean?fill. 
He still did nothing and after 10 years an investigation is done after a local paper informed the council of the dumping.
Fast forward to 2017-18, the investigation found Envirofert didn't test the waste and 10 years of illegal dumping about 30,000 tonnes of waste was dumped in Enviroferts clean?fill. Envirofert made millions of dollars and the investigation has proven ground pollution, contaminating the ground and waterways that drain into Waikato River.
Where are the "DIRTY RIVER" people on this?
Would Ratepayers pay for the report? If David Stagg had of listened to us, a lot of ratepayers money would have been saved! This is typical of council!
Abatement notice was issued by WRC to cease taking the contaminated waste. Investigation report has proven the waste is not in WRC guidelines.
McGuire has failed continually in everything he has tried.
McGuire family are still involved in the running and management of Envirofert, how can Envirofert be allowed to continue with 19 years of non-compliances?

Envirofert composting site. Note: Wet wet and wet. Yes that is Waikato River in the background!
Compost sitting on wet ground, leachate everywhere.
No wonder we get odours, still Regional council turn a blind eye, hide reports or change reports to the many non compliances after 20 years. WRC will issue new consents with conditions to allow Envirofert to continue to pollute and contaminate the air, land and waterways in 2019 for another 20 years.

Residents of Tuakau have told councils of the many operating issues at Envirofert over the 19 years, only to have those issues hidden. Council staff have failed the community.

This was taken on 28 August 2018. Envirofert had been issued with a 'Letter of Direction' from WRC to contour the composting pad to drain flood water and leachate. This was to be done by 1 July 2018. This has not been done and is typical of Envirofert.

I always saw pollution as theft, and I always thought, "Why should somebody be able to pollute air, which belongs to all of us, or destroy a river or a waterway which is supposed to belong to the whole community".             Robert Kennedy, Jnr.

Waikato Regional Council report-Envirofert investigation!

A report was done relating to the discharge of two types of materials discharged into the Envirofert clean?fill which FAIL to meet the required definition of clean?fill.

The report was done by Richard Duirs-Consultant Resource Officer

Envirofert from 2008 was taking water treatment sludge from Watercare treatment plants at Tuakau and Huia into their cleanfill.
22,000 tonnes of water treatment sludge has been placed within the cleanfill.


In 2017 Envirofert described the placement of questionable material in the cleanfill.This was waste paper pulp from Oji Fibre Solutions paper manufacturing/recycling operation.
2,000 tonnes of paper pulp waste has been placed in the cleanfill.

Leachate, pondwater and samples from drains etc all indicate contaminated leachate that has high levels of BOD and ammonia indicative of a high load of biodegradable material/organic waste entering the fill site. The mean heavy metal (or rather metalloid) of concern is arsenic but other metals like zinc, nickel, copper etc. all pose a risk.

The results indicate definite potential for adverse effects to occur or to have occurred in the past as a result of ongoing discharges to water. Also Richard Duirs, that did the report, stated, that he would be somewhat concerned about irrigation of pond water to land based on arsenic levels.

Residents of Tuakau that have been to Envirofert liaison meetings, had phone calls, sent video/photos to the Regional Council, sent emails  over many years with the same concerns and Waikato Regional Council have persistently fobbed us off. David Stagg of Waikato Regional Council stated at a meeting, 'no extra chemicals are added' after residents concerns of Watercare Sludge dumped in Envirofert years ago, nothing was done. WRC knew this unlawful waste was being dumped at Envirofert for approximately 8 years, Tuakau residents told David Stagg and still nothing was done.
Ben Murphy (WRC resource officer) has been given evidence of unlawful irrigation, unlawful waste dumping at Envirofert, but it seems that as long as council ask Envirofert the relevant questions and Envirofert answers them to the satisfaction of council, that is the end of it. That is monitoring to councils. Tick another box!  

Councils answers to monitoring are: We have allowed it, We can't tell them how to run their business, They are fully consented, We haven't got the resources! So, issue a consent, conditions are not meet, and council does nothing, looks like they have by reports (paid for by the facilities that are unlawfully dumping wastes) and audits, but, the truth is, council have failed miserably. Ratepayers are paying for these constant mistakes by council staff.

What the hell is a Resource Consent for? It is a legal document to allow facilities to do an illegal operation. Councils are to monitor!!!!!

Councils have failed to monitor Envirofert and have not followed up the many concerns that residents and neighbours of this facility, that if they had this might never have happened. Ratepayers money going into reports that would not have had to be done if David Stagg and William Gauntlett, Isaac McIntyre of WRC had of listened and acted upon residents concerns. Ben Murphy of WRC is resource officer and still nothing is being fixed, admitting that he had never seen the whole site. This is typical of councils, if they fix it, they wont have a job! It is a tip of the iceberg of unlawful waste that Envirofert have taken over many years. A dig up should be called for and waste be removed. Instead Envirofert have closed and capped that part of the clean?fill and opened up another area. Council will monitor the leachate(yeah right) and see if some of the waste needs to be dug up. Like that is going to happen!!
Leachate will continue to leach into the Waikato River. Authorities and locals seem OK with that and do nothing, head in sand stuff. This will come back and bite Tuakau for years to come!

Many audits have the same issues year after year and Envirofert do nothing about the recommendations from the council, and the council don't seem to follow it up.

What is the Waikato Regional Council going to do about these non-compliances?
Are they going to hit Envirofert with a wet bus ticket again? 20 years of non compliances????

We disagree fundamentally with rich urban city councils exporting their garbage problems to rural districts and thereby forcing those communities to bear the economic, environmental, and social costs of processing city and urban waste. 

Waikato Regional Council under fire!

Envirofert Ltd non-compliance AGAIN!

Tuakau and North Waikato's dirty little secret!

Tuakau residents that live under the wind shadow (2km) of Envirofert, for the last 19 years under ownership of Gary McGuire(Tuakau resident) and Andrew Bayly(MP for Hunua) have lost count of non-compliances, abatement notices, warnings, letter of directions issued from Waikato Regional Council. 
They have been fined, go back to what they were doing and give the one finger salute to the community and council. 
Envirofert have not worked to their consent conditions since 1999 and councils have not monitored.
They have failed Tuakau.

This decision by Waikato Regional Council is PATHETIC and WEAK, as usual!

Incredibly the company (which stands to make millions annually) is allowed to conduct the only environment study/report for approval!

Alan Copsey, the 'NEW' Envirofert GM???

Alan Copsey, another 'new' Envirofert General Manager.

Long time 'friend' of Gary McGuire, shareholder/owner of Envirofert. 

It looks like this is another 'dunna' and 'gunna' person to work for Envirofert!

Envirofert have been through so many people that claim to be experts at this and that.

Copsey was the development manager for the failed and fined EcoVersion that stock piled tyres at Frankton, Waihi, and Kawerau.

This cost Hamilton ratepayers $250,000 for the clean up bill.

 What offensive recycling operation has he got planned for Tuakau that could end up costing ratepayers??

 Where municipal councils have, for their own undisclosed reasons, allowed a composting facility (Envirofert in Tuakau) to exist too near a town, and this facility has continued to stink up the town and create breathing problems for residents through the circulation of mould, particulate matter and pathogens, then what is ENVIROFERT and COUNCIL going to do, that has been UNSUCCESSFUL WORLDWIDE, to stop our town (TUAKAU) from stinking and being a health risk?

Tuakau ProteinsLtd & Envirofert in Tuakau to relocate?

Tuakau Proteins Ltd next to a meat processing plant and Envirofert further away from residential homes. 

Is it time for the relocation of Tuakau Proteins Ltd rendering plant and Envirofert Composting/Clean?fill plant?

This year in August 2018 Tuakau Proteins Ltd in Lapwood Road, Tuakau, North Waikato the Discharge to Air consent expires.
There has been a rendering plant at this site since 1972.
Their neighbour Envirofert Composting/Clean?fill in River Road/Geraghtys Road, Tuakau, North Waikato has been operating since 1999.
Many of Envirofert's consents expire March/April 2019.
Over those years many, many complaints have been made to the monitoring councils.
Tuakau Borough, Franklin District, Auckland,Waikato District and Waikato Regional.

Complaints are made concerning odours, dust, smelly trucks, truck spillages on country and residential roads, and noise etc.

Rendering for 40+ years and composting/clean?fill for 19 years.

Tuakau residents that live in the wind shadow (approx 2-5 kms) of these odour producing facilities have had their quality of life, house and property values devalued for 40+ years.

Law states that a neighbour CANNOT cause adverse affects to their neighbours or not be able to use the property as others can.

This happens regularly and councils are well aware of this.

Councils seem to take the 'so-called' experts report as truth, these people do not ever live in the area of the report they are doing!

There are always going to be upgrades but nothing seems to be fixing these issues after 40+ years.

After 40+ years of broken promises from the facilities and councils, now is the time to relocate these facilities that will have no effect on the surrounding areas.

Putting a 1km 'separation distance' or 'buffer zone', that extends over private property, not owned by these odour producing facilities, recommended by Tonkin+Taylor report, will only restrict the land that is needed for much needed housing.

Two odour producing facilities are ruining Tuakau's development and restricting the use of the Waikato River. Water sport and cycleways, and walking tracks.

Tuakau Protein Ltd is on prime land next to Waikato River and before Envirofert began operating in 1999, Envirofert's land was a natural filter for stormwater, waterways and drainage from all of Tuakau to the Waikato River. 

Now it is a dump of illegal wastes and buried plasterboard that is leaching and draining into the Waikato River and onto neighbours land. Smells rank down by the river from Envirofert.

If these 2 odour producers are needed so much, or as reports call it 'national significance',then councils need to locate them to an area that does not have an affect or restrict neighbours quality of life.

Both facilities have reported that they are struggling for product!

Time to relocate these odour producing facilities and make Tuakau into the town it should be, putting 2 odorous plants in Business Zone (Tuakau Proteins soon to be industrial zone) and Rural Zone (Envirofert) so close to residential housing/sports grounds/schools/recreation areas does not make town planning sense? 

 TUAKAU or is it 'POOAKAU', this is putting many new residents off coming to live here.

Take control today or lose it for years tomorrow!

ENVIROFERT problems continue!

Titanic, who will be at work on Monday??

Ryan Marra, Envirofert's CEO, March 2017 has gone!
Garrick Ashford, Envirofert's new projects manager 2017 has gone!
Elenka Nikoloff, Envirofert's sales and technical advisor 2017 has gone!
Kim Willoughby,Envirofert director gone!


Watercare and  Envirofert investigation allegations of illegal waste disposal!
Odour issues!
Bund and drain not built to application plans!
Illegal burying of plasterboard, now leaching and smelling!
Numerous non-compliances over 18 years!

Management and staff huge turn over!

Marra had great plans and nothing has been done, again another year of odours and no improvements.

How long are the councils going to allow this badly run place and do nothing.

Residents have been complaining to Waikato District and Regional Councils for years about Envirofert's issues and the councils have played it all down.

Now is the time to fix this!

It is important that communities are listened to and that their voice is heard, particularly with local government boundaries more than parliamentary boundaries because you are talking very much about communities! 

Tuakau Proteins Ltd & Councils dishonesty again!

Tuakau Proteins Ltd in Lapwood Road, Tuakau has lodged for a replacement consent with Waikato Regional Council. The current consent expires in August 2018.

To view the consent application go to Waikato Regional Council website>menu>community>whats happening>in search box put Significant consent applications, hearings and decisions>under application detail available for viewing> Tuakau Proteins Ltd.

It is for 'Discharge to Air'. Another 25 years of living hell!
TPL have requested no public notification on this application.
A report is required by  Tuakau Proteins Ltd (TPL).
This report 'Tuakau Proteins Ltd Resource Consent Application and Assessment of Environmental Effects (AEE) was done by David Ray of Mitchell Daysh Ltd using some Golder and Tonkin+Taylor reports also.

Reports seem to have been done on a 2 day visit. This seems to have been done in August 2017 when TPL were operating on limited capacity. 
What happens on the other 363 days that TPL operate at full production, with no for warning of a site visit? We know as we live with the emissions! We have been told that the Bio filters(for removing odours) have never been replaced. Golder seems to say that offsite odours will be minor. David Ray from Mitchell Daysh seems to say that offsite odours will be less than minor. 
Only "AFFECTED PERSONS" that live WITHIN 1km of the site are going to be consulted.
This seems to be what Waikato Regional Council make their decisions on.
Reports paid for by the applicant, with the applicants in put. A burglars input on a security system would be more honest!
There could be NO hearing and NO submissions and NON notification!
This is typical of councils making decisions for residents without consulting.
This rendering plant under numerous owners for 40+ years have had Significant Non Compliances, and Tuakau is bombarded with putrid rendering odours.
How can the Council allow this?
Envirofert has consents that expire next year,2019, will they get the same from our councils, non-notification. Numerous non compliances, illegal dumping, illegal burying, illegal after hour dumping, dust drifting over Tuakau, (that could be asbestos), leachate odours and putrid rotten garbage odours. They are going to expand, more intense odours!
Councils promote robust and transparent consultation, have your say, we are listening, all this PR marketing crap is BS, they do not listen.
If councils actually took the time to get out of their institutional mentality and listened to the real world we might have a chance of fixing these wrongly placed odour producing facilities.
Years of odour complaints have been used against the complainant and so called experts that do not live with the odours, are writing misleading reports, that look and sound right and the council take their word, not doing any research of their own.

A copy of this report can be requested from WRC -0800800401, contact Ben Murphy, Tuakau Protein resource officer.

We disagree with some of this report, so therefore it needs to be discussed at a public hearing.

It looks like any affected persons living more than 1km from the site(TPL) is being discounted, eg meetings, no input to this report, no notification (even though TPL stated at last liaison meeting that all that was present would be informed). We have been to the liaison meetings for approximately 12 years and it looks like as we live 1.5kms away from this site we are to be excluded. David Ray(author of report)states that the odour we have is less than minor. Obviously and of course does not live here!
What right has he got to put that into a report, knowing that we are the main complainants, 27 years, done diary odour reports, and even Council has admitted, 'unfortunately it is where you live', NO, it is where you have allowed this putrid stinking operation, Tuakau 
Proteins Ltd.

The dishonesty that we see is that we have lived here for 27 years, we have had putrid rancid odours from that day (1991)until now that are still on going.  Original Consent said 'No smell beyond the boundary' in those days! Now it states 'No offensive or objectionable smell beyond the boundary' that has to be confirmed by a WRC resource officer that is 1 hour away. Now nobody living further than 1km can be consulted, only an invite from the odour producers you will be able to go to the liaison meetings. Of course then they know who you are and where you live. Again this is used against the residents. A lot of residents can't or won't go to these one sided meetings.

We went through the same thing with Lowe Corporation many years ago and were feed the same BS then as now, it made no difference to the odours. Same BS of upgrades, same reporters, (Golder) and TPL still stink! Report authors seem to copy other reports knowing that these odour producing facilities cannot operate without stinking out the affected persons, 5kms away!

Affected persons that live within 1km of the site(TPL) have either given up complaining to the council or been bought off????

I'm actually a very nice person-until you piss me off! 

Living with ADVERSE Affects near a composting facility in Howlong, Australia!

UPDATE: On Thursday 10 May 2018 the EPA in Australia rang Robyn Kelly (that was taking Panmure Compost to court in July) to inform her that they were not only revoking the permit for Panmure Compost to expand, they were also cancelling the existing licence. 

Panmure Compost admitted that they could not contain the smell and would not back themsives to the new $1.5 million dollar improvements and expansion.

So it looks like if you have an authority that have the balls to pull the pin on this type of operation IT CAN BE DONE! NZ EPA say it is not in their jurisdiction,and yet Australia EPA made the right decision. GO FIGURE

New Zealand obviously don't have the balls or admit these facilities are in the WRONG PLACE!

This is a copy of a letter to the editor that was published in ‘The Boston Mail’ in Howlong, Australia.

Robyn Kelly lives approximately 3 kms away from Statewide Waste in Panmure, Victoria, Australia. The community around this waste facility were not notified.
This situation seems very similar to ours here in Tuakau, North Waikato, NZ. We were not notified about Envirofert Composting when Waikato Regional Council gave Envirofert resource consent to take food waste to make into compost  in 2009, using a Tonkin+Taylor report that stated 'off-site odour would be low'. Fast forward to 2018 and we have had 9 years of horrific putrid odours when the wind is from S-NW. Sometimes when there is no wind, it just hangs in the air.

Robyn Kelly from Panmure, Victoria, Australia's letter:

While preparing dinner on the evening of August 29, 2017, I heard that there was breaking news.
Walking into the lounge I heard that a compost site had been approved for the town of Howlong.  I cannot write here how I felt hearing this. So let me clarify a couple of things. Firstly, I had never heard of Howlong and needed to Google it. Probably similar to the people of Howlong having never heard of the little township of Panmure near Warrnambool. Well we are about to have something in common. Welcome to the world of 24-hour rancid horrific stench. You have to live this life to believe it, and we are luckier than our two neighbours who live the closest to this horror.

We are dairy farmers (not anti or pro green, too busy to care really!) and have endured the stench for some five years, absolutely loathe to voice a complaint as being country people we just didn't want to make waves. We have seen families leave the district, seen beautiful Western Victoria farms totally worthless as no one could possibly buy them as you can't live with the smell. This means our wonderful little town loses school pupils, footballers, and all that enriches a country town. It is 
beyond awful.

So here is what you can expect. Stinging eyes, sore throats, no Christmases at your place (you just wouldn't do that to your family), the actual taste of the smell getting into your stomach and making you feel sick, a once per week semi load of dead poultry being dumped and the following few days will be indescribable, no hanging clothes on the line as the smell gets into them and into your home, no assistance from the EPA (environmental protection authority) as they want to be seen to be pro-green and composting makes them look good so you get no help there, trucks entering at all hours of the day and night regardless of operating hours and especially on public holidays! You will be told that only household organic waste and the likes will utilise the facility. Of course more contracts and deals are done with various companies and you won't know what is in the back of those trucks. Speaking of trucks they will be coming from all directions, that are loud, and in a hurry.

So, if you reside within three kilometres of your new compost site that I am sure was sold to you like a modern non-smelling facility that is almost built as a favour to you, well God help you. Oh and the people who are voting for this life-wrecking facility, would they have it in their street? Of course not. Shame on them, I can assure you your lives will never be the same. I am so very sorry for those affected. You will be stuck with it with no support and no help from anyone. This is something you would not wish on your worst enemy.

Robyn Kelly, Panmure

Envirofert in Tuakau owned, operated, shareholders, directors by Andrew Bayly, now Member of Parliament for Hunua, his twin brother Paul and Gary McGuire, Tuakau local. Government departments will not help, does not look good for government with Envirofert's many non-compliances. Waikato Regional and District Councils will not help as they gave Envirofert the right to operate. Councils do not like to think they have made a huge mistake by putting this and Tuakau Protein rendering plant (Envirofert's neighbour) by residential homes. Now Councils want to put a 1 km minimum  odour separation distance around these odour producing facilities. This extends over privately owned properties that existed long before these odour producing facilities. Council state that this will not restrict the existing residents. Who will want to buy, live, or open businesses with a odour zone over their property. You would have to be mad! Councils only seem to be considering new residents not the residents that have been here way before these two facilities. 
Tuakau could be a great tourist stop, Waikato River is stunning but who wants to live or play with the ever present horrific odours, many seagulls, dirty discharges into the Mighty Waikato River? This river could have walking tracks/bike tracks from Port Waikato to Taupo with many businesses for locals and tourists. But NO the NZ government and councils would rather put odour producing and dirty toxic discharges into the river. Go figure!

Could this be Gary McGuire's latest idea? Rumours are rife?

Could this be the ‘new’ future for Envirofert Composting/Clean?fill?

Envirofert starting eel farming?
Gary Peter McGuire 40% shareholder of Envirofert tried and failed eel farming before he started Envirofert years ago. Could this be another failure??
Residents have noticed trucks entering and leaving the clean?fill site and not using the weigh bridge.
This is a requirement of Envirofert’s consent conditions to record the tonnage.


Is this being done to hide the legal and true amount that Envirofert are actually taking?

People never lie so much as after a hunt, during a war or before an election!

Australia councils make the right decision!

What a change? in NZ it is the other way around. Councils making decisions for non-compliant facilities and covering up the many non compliances!

The community of Howlong, NSW, Australia have been fighting to stop Cleanaway build a composting facility in their town for several years.
Many residents were against this facility but still the JRPP(joint regional hearing panel)handed down their decision in October 2017-a 3 to 1 decision in favour of Cleanaway.
Council elections were held for a new council in 2017.
Council also withdraw the land that they offered Cleanaway to develop this facility.
The new Council sacked the previous GM who had lead the campaign to allow the composting development to proceed.
December 2017 it became official, the composting facility would not go ahead.
The community of Howlong have also received letters from NSW government saying they are revising the guidelines for composting facilities near population centres.
Waikato District Council had Tonkin+Taylor odour assessment report done for Tuakau Structure Plan, in that report most of it is done by using Australian guidelines, as we have no NZ guidelines.
Does this mean that instead of recommending a 1km minimum odour zone around odour producing facilities in Tuakau, that will restrict existing and new residents, the Councils will make these odour producing facilities work to consent conditions. “No offensive or objectionable odour beyond their boundary”
Australia are now revising guidelines near population, surely NZ councils will revise their guidelines?
What do you think??

You’ve got only 3 choices in life
Give up,
Give in,
Or give it all you’ve got!

Waikato District Council get staff bonuses but rates to increase!

1. Waikato District Council increase rates by 6.4% . 26 February 2018

This was in Franklin County News January 11, 2018.

Waikato District Council bonuses, read and if you have had dealings with WDC you will get the joke.

It could become the Joke of the Year.
Could this mean our rates from WDC are to rise? Hate to tell you but I told you so!

We are extra lucky in Tuakau, not only do we get a rate increase, the council is trying to give us more odour as well. 

If there is intelligent life out there, 

bring them down to earth and

replace our councils with them?