14 Oct 2020

Huntly residents fight plans for an industrial waste dump

From Afternoons, 1:13 pm on 14 October 2020

Residents in the small north Waikato town of Huntly are fighting an application for resource consent by an Auckland trucking company to dump millions of cubic metres of industrial waste there.

Huntly board member and local of 47 years Red Wootton talks to Jesse about why they are worried about the run off from the site polluting the town's last swimmable lake.

030214. Photo Genesis Energy. Genesis Energy Huntly Power Station is a thermal power station that can use coal, gas or both simultaneously as fuel.

Genesis Energy's Huntly Power Station. Photo: GENESIS ENERGY