The Local Government Act 2002 even before being legislated upon the Government knew their were Loopholes in the Act but they went ahead and legislated it. The problem is that people have been misled to believe this is all the farmers fault. 20 Plus Years down the track and no fines issued, the government turns a blind eye, adeaf ears to expertise and Councilors  on this major problem. That could have been fixed easily by an Amendment To Local Government Act 2002

The dumping on Contaminants- Toxic chemicals * Blood * Fat * Ammonia *Sulfides  leaching into the sewers breaching  Trade Waste Water Consents.. Bakeries * Supermarkets * Takeaway Shops dumping their contents down dirty greasy traps. The Biggest Manufacturers- brand names that call themselves ‘Sustainable’ that also discharge contaminants, many of them are dangerous and most breaching consents multiple times

Data obtained from 68 City and District Councils that paints a very grimy grim picture of Clean Green New Zealand  . 267 Companies breaching their Trade Waste Water Consents. Sometimes compliance is rare or even Non-existent. In Timaru every Trade Waste Consent Holder breached their conditions. In Central Hawkes Bay 6 out of 8 also have done so. Including Seafood suppliers * Frozen Vegetable & Ice-cream maker Tallys and also Meat Works subsidiary AFFCO. The so called ‘Sustainable Fish Company ‘Sanford’s’.. DB Brewery * McCains *Heartland Potato Chips * Medallion Pet Foods * Ovation and the Wallace Groups rendering plants * South Canterbury By-Products… EEM  But Lets Just Blame The Farmers.. would certainly promote the implementation of the Paris Agreement that NZ adopted.. (The Climate Zealots)

Palmerston North 8 out of 9 Consent Holders broken their Consents multiple times, including two sites belonging to the Daitry Giant Fonterra * Goodman Fielder * Earnest Adams * Yoplait factories and the largest owned Maori Fishing Company in New Zealand ‘Moana NZ ‘. Yep the breaches are unbelievable..Horowhenua District Council failed to meet consent conditions it imposed upon itself, by allowing Levin Landfill to discharge more leachate – a chemical-filled liquid heavy in ammonia and nitrogen that drains from the dump – than the wastewater treatment plant could cope with.

Even after forking out $28,606 in clean up costs to Tauranga City Council for trade waste breaches in 2019, upmarket pet food company ZiwiPeak racked up another 12 breaches  the previous year, council records show. Companies who have breached their consent –  But not every council keeps track of consent breaches in this way – or, if they do, is transparent about what they find. In several regions, it’s hard to get an accurate picture of how companies behave because councils don’t have rules about what can be dumped into the sewers, rarely monitor dumping, or will not answer…. RNZ’s question .Auckland Council’s Watercare, which manages the largest wastewater network in the country, refuses to answer any questions about who has consents and who is breaching them because of “privacy reasons”.

Many other councils simply don’t know what’s occurring because they test a company’s wastewater as seldom as once a year, or leave it to the companies to monitor their own discharges. Despite hundreds of consent holders dumping contaminants into the sewers in the past year, not a single one has been prosecuted. Councils can’t stomach the cost of taking a prosecution under the Local Government Act or the Resource Management Act

How many have been slapped with fines? None. A legal loophole means councils have no power to issue them, so are instead forced to take an “educative” approach with errant firms. The upshot is hundreds of companies getting away with breaking the rules, and potentially damaging public infrastructure and polluting the environment. And RNZ can reveal successive governments have known about the issue for nearly two decades, but have done nothing to stop it.

There’s a video on the Talley’s Group website with the tagline “Bringing you the best of New Zealand.” In it, fresh mussels are pulled out of pristine waters, fresh fish are stacked neatly in buckets of gleaming ice and smiling factory workers gently mix peas, corn and carrots on a production line into a quintessential family staple. But are four of Talley’s 17 factories doing their best when it comes to their waste?

Tasman Tanning is also causing issues at Whanganui’s wastewater plant. Its website declares “Leather, it’s in our nature” amid images of pristine landscapes and waterways, but it dumps too much chromium – a toxic heavy metal – into the sewer. In the past year, the company breached its chromium limits 205 times. It also clocked up 221 sulphide and 205 oil and grease breaches over that period. The company admits it’s at fault, though it says the high levels of grease and sulphides are “not much of an issue” for the Whanganui Wastewater Treatment Plant.

The high levels of chromium, however, are. Tasman Tanning installed a special filter at the factory last year but it didn’t work and the company is now spending $1 million on a new system to filter the chromium out of its wastewater. Still, Tasman has doubts about the quality of the council’s testing, saying it is carrying out its own tests because it doesn’t believe it’s breaching its consent as much as Whanganui District Council reports. Meanwhile, the company’s Timaru plant breached its consent 73 times between October 2019 and August 2020, including by dumping too much sulphide, zinc, chromium and ammonia down the drain.

When Local Government Minister Nanaia Mahuta was in the House she was approached about these concerns. She stated that there is going to be a New Water Regulator. It will be left up to them, however it may take some time to fix…(20 Plus years later after the Act was legislated on)  Eeem Just Blame The Farmers.. lets character assassinate them even though the country has relied on their exports for as long as forever…. You- Climate Zealots .. Can Stick the Paris Agreement Up Where The Sun Don’t Shine..

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RESEARCHER: Cassie