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Post by Kiwi Frontline on Jan 19, 2020 14:44:50 GMT 12
IWI HEADED TO HIGH COURT OVER WATER BOTTLING CONSENTA Whakatane iwi and an environmental group are appealing a court decision allowing China's largest water bottler to take more than a billion litres of groundwater a year. Creswell NZ, a subsidiary of Nongfu Spring, received resource consent to expand its Otakiri Springs plant south-west of Edgecumbe about 18 months ago. The Environment Court declined an appeal to overturn the consents in a two to one majority last month, and Ngāti Awa is now taking an appeal to the High Court alongside environmental group Sustainable Otakiri. Creswell's consent allows it to increase its bottling capacity by almost four times to 5000 cubic metres a day...... www.rnz.co.nz/news/national/407614/iwi-headed-to-high-court-over-water-bottling-consent
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