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Angry angler 
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Posted on: May 20 2012,12:23 |
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Keep an eye on the hearing currently reported in the Manawatu Standard about the application to dump dairy waste in the Mangatainoka river (the one which features in Tui beer ads).
The matter is reported on the Stuff website, 20 May 2012. If Fonterra gets its way, 2250 cubic metres of condensate will be dumped into the Mangatainoka River for the next 22 years.
The evidence shows what the dairy industry will try if it gets the chance. A very fine trout fishery progressively ruined. No wonder Fonterra employs an army of spin doctors.
The dairy industry's big lie is that you can't have too many cows in the national dairy herd.
The truth is there are limits to growth and we have now exceeded them.
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Quentin Forster
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Posted on: May 20 2012,12:40 |
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How the hell can they get away with this? Boasting adherence to cleaning up our water ways to then go do something like this. Fonterra is a joke. We don't need them. Leaders in environment distruction should be there motto! This shit has got to stop.
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powergel
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Posted on: May 20 2012,13:16 |
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TEARS AS RIVERS DECLINE DESCRIBED
Last updated 12:20 19/05/2012
Emotions have run high at the Fonterra Pahiatua plant's discharge consent hearing, with one submitter breaking down in tears as he told how he had seen the Mangatainoka River decline over his lifetime.
Fonterra wants to discharge 2250 cubic metres of condensate into the Mangatainoka River for the next 22 years.
It currently discharges into the Brechin Stream, which flows into the Mangatainoka, but is asking at a hearing in Palmerston North for permission to discharge directly into the river.
The water in the Brechin Stream, considered a valuable trout spawning area, is degraded with sewage fungus caused by the current discharge.
Fonterra said the discharge would have less effect on the environment if it had the larger mixing area of the river. Horizons Regional Council environmental scientist Logan Brown stated in his evidence to the hearing yesterday that the fungus prevented fish from laying eggs.
Pahiatua resident and submitter Ross Gillespie said he had watched trout numbers dwindle in the stream for many years. He remembered watching multitudes of juvenile fish swimming through the water when he was a child.
"You're lucky to find any now," said Mr Gillespie, before breaking down in tears. Corina Jordon, environmental officer with Wellington Fish and Game, said the Mangatainoka River was a significant and popular trout fishery that was affected by pollution and high water takes.
She said the river regularly breached nitrogen, phosphorus and dissolved oxygen limits, all of which affected aquatic life.
The river's degraded state had been recognised by Horizons Regional Council, she said.
"The discharge into the Brechin Stream could also be impacting on the river."
One of Ms Jordon's concerns was that the heat of the discharge was having a major effect on trout numbers. Fonterra plans to reduce the discharge's temperature from 50 to 35 degrees Celsius by putting it through a cooling tower first.
Fonterra's director of New Zealand operations, Brent Taylor, speaking away from the hearing, said the company intended to reduce environmental impact by lowering the discharge temperature, and taking it out of the river completely between January and March.
"We are spending around $700,000 on a cooling tower and looking to irrigate during the summer months," he said. It was not possible to irrigate to land continuously all year due to the weather.
Mr Taylor said Fonterra spent millions of dollars a year upgrading its systems to meet increasing standards for consents.
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DryflyBandit
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Posted on: May 20 2012,16:27 |
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Good to see New Zealand's trying its hardest to keep its 100% pure clean green image.
"on the farm and in the factory, water quality is important to us" (http://www.fonterra.com/wps/wcm/connect/fonterracom/fonterra.com/Our+Business/Sustainability/)
I don't thing I've ever seen a better saying for a tui billboard ad before.
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powergel
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Posted on: May 20 2012,17:59 |
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...dont know if this link will work....but if you listen to this Fonterra wanker you will see why the problems exist...
You Tube Fonterra Conference
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Quentin Forster
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Posted on: May 20 2012,18:14 |
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Those "house wives" are no more disconnected that the dickhead himself.
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waitakidan
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Posted on: May 20 2012,21:04 |
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Two things to do:
-If you live in that area, stop paying your rates. Your regional council, who you have elected, shouldn't be letting your water ways be polluted.
-And boycott Fonterra products. Personally, I wouldn't be financially supporting a company I had as much distaste for as is expressed here. Buying their products is approving of their way of doing business
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fraser hocks
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Posted on: May 20 2012,21:09 |
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Watched that video and all i can say is what a toss pot! Apparently 78% of streams not been polluted means no pollution? I’m shocked that the CEO of such a firm makes outlandish statements such as these.
Does this mean that if we cover his house with only 12% manure that its not pollution? The guy is a complete moron and how he ever got to a CEO position is completely beyond me. HE tries to take the upper ground by dismissing those who know that his firm is polluting our waterways, yet he doesn’t even seem to understand that if you dump stuff in a river it flows downstream (simple physics twit).
Just seeing this interview with the CEO has given me a lustful hatred of Fonterra if that’s how there CEO acts.
Any idea how we can get this video up on TV. I’m sure he will offend enough people to bring himself some bad publicity?
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powergel
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Posted on: May 21 2012,08:15 |
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hi
....I sent the link of Mr Hutchings to "Closeup" as they have screened some articles recently regarding water quality.
....if you have a few moments it is easy to email them from their website...who knows, we may be able to see Hutchings squirm on national T.V.
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