Post by Kiwi Frontline on May 1, 2016 17:38:37 GMT 12
NEVER AGAIN, URGE POROTĪ TRUSTEES
he Māori trustees of Porotī Springs near Whangarei say the local council should never again issue a consent for a water-bottling plant over the road.
A land-use consent for a factory, granted 12 years ago to the Auckland company Zodiac Holdings, has lapsed with no sign of building on the site, and no application to the council for a building permit.
Zodiac Holdings and its subsidiary, New Zealand Spring Water, have declined to comment on why they allowed the land-use consent to lapse.
The company has a separate resource consent to take water from bores on the land for the next 30 years, but has never used it.
Māori who own Porotī Springs have strongly opposed the bottling project, fearing it would deplete the aquifer that feeds the springs.
Trustees chair Taipari Munro said hapū feared Zodiac was about to sell the site to overseas interests…..
www.radionz.co.nz/news/national/302711/never-again,-urge-poroti-trustees
he Māori trustees of Porotī Springs near Whangarei say the local council should never again issue a consent for a water-bottling plant over the road.
A land-use consent for a factory, granted 12 years ago to the Auckland company Zodiac Holdings, has lapsed with no sign of building on the site, and no application to the council for a building permit.
Zodiac Holdings and its subsidiary, New Zealand Spring Water, have declined to comment on why they allowed the land-use consent to lapse.
The company has a separate resource consent to take water from bores on the land for the next 30 years, but has never used it.
Māori who own Porotī Springs have strongly opposed the bottling project, fearing it would deplete the aquifer that feeds the springs.
Trustees chair Taipari Munro said hapū feared Zodiac was about to sell the site to overseas interests…..
www.radionz.co.nz/news/national/302711/never-again,-urge-poroti-trustees