The proposed Waimate garbage incinerator is dead:
The company behind a highly-controversial proposal to build a waste-to-energy plant in the Waimate District no longer has the land.So, South Island Resource Recovery may have got itself placed on National's corrupt fast-track list, but that list specifies the exact site, so they can no longer use it. And while they could find a new site and re-apply, they'd need to spend years gathering the required environmental data for the new site to support an application. Which means in practical terms that the whole thing is dead. Until of course it pops up in a new small town with a low-capacity local authority to start the whole scam again.[...]
However, SIRRL director Paul Taylor said the sales and purchase agreement to purchase land from Murphy Farms, near Glenavy, lapsed at the end of last year.
The company gave no indication of where the plant may be located now it had lost the land.
