Late last year, Environment Southland applied for approval on behalf of the National Biocontrol Collective, with Manaaki Whenua – Landcare Research providing scientific support. Photo Credit: Manaaki Whenua

Environment Southland is welcoming this week’s decision by the Environmental Protection Authority (EPA) to approve the release of Blaptea elguetai, a leaf‑feeding beetle that will help control the highly invasive Chilean flame creeper.

RNZ holds 10 resource consents at the site and conditions for these include that discharges of odour beyond the site’s boundary should not be ‘offensive or objectionable’.

Remediation NZ (RNZ) has been fined more than $71,000 for discharging offensive odours described by neighbours as smelling like ‘faecal and pig effluent’ from its compositing site near Uruti in North Taranaki. 

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