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!
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