Oh fuck - the Waimate garbage incinerator is on the fast-track list. www.beehive.govt.nz/sites/defaul...
If you have a system that can bypass all regulation & laws - why would any project go legit route. Of course you have to pay bribes to the ministers but that’s to be expected in corrupt states where rule of law is a joke
So this is a collection of bonkers/toxic projects, then? (including Kiwirail's proposed Southdown-Avondale link) Why am I not surprised?
Not to mention the McCallum Brothers sand mining consent that had been declined because, in part, of the impact on the Mangawhai distall spit....that's back too.... Could destroy the Mangawhai harbour.
And The Point solar farm - which manages to make solar power controversial (unlike virtually every other solar project in the country)