Could Andrew Bayly be our 'NEW' MP for Tuakau?

Proposed election boundary changes for 2020!

The proposed boundary changes for 2020 election are to be reviewed.

If these changes are adopted approximately in April 2020, Tuakau will be in the 'NEW' Franklin/Port Waikato electorate. We were Port Waikato for many years. Our member of parliament representative, if elected again, will be Andrew Henry Bayly. Bayly was the owner and operator of Envirofert composting/clean?fill from 1999-2014. In 2014 he  entered parliament, MP for Hunua. Bayly's still have interests in Envirofert, shareholders etc. Envirofert is on River Road and Geraghtys Road Tuakau. Odours, dust are problems and have been for 20 years. Gary McGuire, Tuakau local, was also owner and operator at the same time as Bayly, not working to consent conditions from 1999-2013. In those years and the following years there has been many non-compliances and unlawful dumping of waste that was proven by councils and reports. This waste will leach and contaminate air, land and waterways that drain into  the Waikato River for years to come.  Envirofert are in the process of getting another 20+ years of consents (2019) with Waikato Regional Council the 'so-called' monitoring council for Envirofert. Is this the way that Tuakau will be treated by Bayly? Of course it will be! Residents will discover this when they go to Bayly with concerns about Envirofert etc. The ordinary person will not be heard or have concerns dealt with in the honest way by this MP, as we discovered when Bayly was at Envirofert (1999-2014).

I'm not impressed by money, social status or job title.

I'm  impressed by the way someone treats other human beings!

Envirofert Fail AGAIN!

Envirofert Ltd (EF) in Tuakau, North Waikato have failed again to work to RMA and Abatement Notice EAC5577. This was issued by Waikato Regional Council.

This waste was buried by Gary McGuire, owner and operator of Envirofert, Andrew Bayly (MP for Hunua). McGuire informed WRC that this waste was taken off-site. Of course it was not only buried and hidden. This unlawful waste was photographed by a concerned resident in 2010 and photos were sent to WRC. WRC filed the photos and did nothing, it makes you wonder why this was not investigated.

9 years later WRC have decided that now is the time to issue an Abatement notice EAC5577 nine years after it was bought to WRC attention. Had WRC taken into account of the photos sent to them in 2010 and also listened to direct neighbours that this waste was buried and not taken off-site, this would not be happening costing ratepayers many dollars because of GARY MCGUIRE again has failed to work to consent conditions. 

 In 2019 EF were to dig up the unlawful buried compost/GIB on EF's SW corner, approximately 30 mtrs from the Waikato River. Under the Abatement notice EF were to process and sell the material and LAWFULLY dispose of what they could not sell.

Instead EF dug up the unlawful waste and deposited it on another part of EF's land that was in contravention with the Waikato Regional Plan, s15(1) of the RMA and Abatement Notice EAC5577.

How many times can EF get away with these contraventions of the WRP, RMA and EF's Abatement Notices. 
 Peter DeLuca is director, Gary McGuire have 40% shares, Paul Bayly, Michael Bayly have 30% shares, MW Crawford Trustee Company Limited have 30% shares.
Paul McGuire, Technical Advisor?(Gary McGuire's brother), Allan Copsey, General Manager, Paul Yearbury, Operations Manager! 

We notice many other businesses under WRC get huge fines and EF get very low fines. Why is this do you think?? 

It is not my role to expose fake people. 
In due time, they will expose themselves for who they really are!

Envirofert Ltd Tuakau expansion & construction of 'NEW COMPOSTING PAD'.

In 2016 when Envirofert (EF)applied to the Waste Minimisation Fund, $1.5million, it was to fund 'state of the art' receivables shed and a 'state of the art' concrete composting pad' to drain leachate into drains and stop ponding on the site that leads to odours.

Now it is just a clay based pad!

2009 Envirofert were issued with a consent from Waikato Regional Council to receive food waste (10-12,000 tons per annum) and mix with green waste (40-45,000 tons per annum) to make compost. 

2009-20019 Tuakau has been living with putrid odours from Envirofert's compost operation.

Envirofert's new application(consents expires in June 2019) states no limit on food waste. The extension to the compost pad (see photo) to enable to process between 60-72,000 tons per annum without any crucial infrastructure and using the exact same methodology that they were using in 2013, the O2 Compost (Peter Moon).

If this application is granted by Waikato Regional Council, EF will be able to process over 6 times the amount that they were processing in 2016. EQUALS 6 TIMES THE LIKELYHOOD AND CONCENTRATION OF ODOUR.

 EnviroNZ, in Hampton Downs are required to have far superior, state of the art, infrastructure in place BEFORE processing up to 6,000 tons of food waste per annum to protect their closest neighbours being the prison, Springhill. The prison is 1150 metres away. If EF's consent application is granted in it's current form, Tuakau residents are being treated worse than prisoners as everyone in Tuakau within 2km(2,000 mtrs) are likely to suffer air odour and potential health problems. It's called ADAPTIVE mitigation. It's like allowing someone to drive without any lessons until they crash!

This seems to be the way WRC operate 'give consent and then wait for the complaints', then communities get told 'it is an established business and you have to live with it'! This is deceiving and dishonest!

 Don't piss off old people
The older we get the less
"Life in Prison" is a deterrent! 

ENVIROFERT LTD DUST HEALTH ISSUES!

Envirofert Limited state that this product is James Hardie Silica base Weather Board.

James Hardie Safety Data Sheet states: Dust may cause upper respiratory tract  irritation.Avoid creating dust. Can cause eye irritation. This product contains crystalline silica(quartz and cristabolite). Inhaling crystalline silica containing dusts can aggravate respiratory conditions such as asthma or emphysema. Acute silicosis may develop, and crystalline silica may be linked to scleroderma and an increased risk of kidney disease. Development of silicosis followed by complications and, eventually lung cancer. Also states ......'prevent dust from the product from entering environment as it may clogg drains and cause excess sediment in waterways'.
Envirofert have many internal drains and waterways that eventually drain into the Waikato River.

Envirofert Ltd Tuakau-Resource Consent application 2012-Waikato Regional Council.

To read Envirofert's application for new resource consents, 2019. 
Waikato Regional Council website>Community>Whats happening>Have your say>Current Resource Consent applications of community interest>Envirofert Limited(Tuakau)-clean?fill and composting operations. 

Being involved and trying to communicate with councils for 10 years concerning the many unlawful and breaches of consent conditions from Envirofert Limited and reading these documents, the only conclusion we can come to is LIES,LIES and more LIES!
UNBELIEVABLE, if the councils do not not do their own research, Tuakau is in for another 15-20-35 years of HELL!

The Most Dangerous People Are The Liars Who Think They Are Telling The TRUTH!

Envirofert Transfer Station??

Could this be the future for TUAKAU?. Could this be ratepayer funded?

Rumours that are circulating around Tuakau are that Envirofert Ltd (EF) are looking at putting a transfer station on their land in Geraghtys Road, Tuakau.

At the Community Board meetings (that are public, all welcome), EF have constantly pushed for a transfer station, usually by Vern Reeve (local land agent) and Gary McGuire (Tuakau local and majority shareholder of EF). Shaun Jackson of La Valla and Jacqui Church our local councillor seem to think it is a good idea also! So maybe they would like this Transfer Station next to them?

Next meeting is on Monday 4 February, 7.00pm at Nikau Cafe, 1779 Waikaretu Valley Road, Waikaretu. A public forum will be held at the commencement of the meeting.

The only land that is suitable for a transfer station on EF's land is the cropping land off Geraghtys Road, all other land is on swamp.

EF already have consent for light vehicle access using Geraghtys Road entrance.

EF have a 20 year history of non-compliances to many consent conditions, non-reporting, non water/ground well reporting, odours, unlawful dumping.
All neighbours are disregarded and have no say if, and it is written this way in the new application for 2019, under the RMA, the reports say that if the off site odour will be less than minor, all neighbours are disregarded.

Could this be why the RMA, councils and so-called experts are recommending in their reports for a 1 km odour separation zone distance from these odour polluters.

If these odour polluters require a 1 km odour separation distance, they need to OWN the land within the 1 km radius and if they wish, then sell it on with those conditions. 

This would be  dishonest to impose this RMA condition by councils, and odour polluters over privately owned land.

When EF have been proven not complying to consents, councils allow them to change the consent condition to the detriment of the community and environment. 

Transfer stations are noted for odour, noise and illegal dumping, already EF have been independently proven taking illegal waste that is leaching into ground and waterways that drain into the Waikato River.

This transfer station would be for Pokeno, Tuakau, Onewhero, Pukekawa and Port Waikato.

Each area should look after its own waste. The infrastructure at EF and controls are absolutely inadequate, eg councils, roads, and monitoring. 

You can dress up GREED, but you can't stop the stench!

Envirofert Ltd & Tuakau Proteins Ltd still stinking out Tuakau or is it POOAKAU?

Another summer ruined by these odour producing facilities that the Waikato councils encourage with new, replacement and old resource consents with conditions that are put in place for residents to fail!

Many upgrades are presented to councils when resource consents are to expire. The trouble with that is MOST upgrades are not done or watered down. Councils let this happen constantly.

Any odour complaint is treated by councils as a nuisance call, first few calls the council is obliging, then they refuse to answer phone calls and emails. Again, this is to encourage complainants to go away, another fail for residents.

Only residents that live within a 1km radius are consulted. Even direct neighbours are disregarded under the RMA. As long as the reports (paid for by the odour producing facility) state that the 'off-site odour is less than minor' then everyone is disregarded?

These odour producing facilities and councils use every trick, 
excuse, to explain why we have to live with the stench.

Summer, 30 degrees, and the house is shut up due to the stench. Rotten food waste and rotten meat waste. Leachate odours! Inhuman conditions and 3rd world conditions. Councils and facilities are bringing the quality of life for Tuakau residents down to 3rd world conditions. Even the council use the excuse, 'you think this is bad, you should see......'.

TUAKAU this is what the town and Waikato river users will have to put up with for another 20-35 years when the odour producers get their new resource consents. Possibly in 2019!

Envirofert's 20 year consents, 1999-2019 are to expire this year and Tuakau Proteins has applied to council for a new 'Discharge Odour to Air' consent that expired in 2018. Both applications are on Waikato Regional Council website for public to read. No decision yet on notification or submissions?

They will get them as councils don't seem to have the laws to make these odour producers to work within their consent conditions, even though the councils continually say they have! The councils say to us regularly 'we cant tell them how to run their business'. However councils DO have the ability to make the facilities work to consent conditions. This does not happen, many behind closed doors meetings are held and many back-handed deals are done! Money talks!

Councils then use law, lawyers and smart-mouthed 'so-called experts', to change the resource consents to fit the facilities CRIME.

As the sense of smell is so intimately connected with that of taste, it is not surprising that an excessively bad odour, should excite wretching or vomiting in some persons.
Charles Darwin