Love Our Wai - Let's stop the plastic!

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Love Our Wai - Let's Stop The Plastic!

Project 2019-03-17 17:27:11 +1300

 

New Zealand: The plastic creation nation. Is this our future?

Sustainable Otakiri needs to raise $43,125 by May 8th or it may have to withdraw its Environment Court appeal against Cresswell NZ.  Please give us a chance to stop the bottling and STOP THE PLASTIC!

PLEDGE or DONATE (Otakiri Save Our Water and Environment 06 0489 0754608 30 ) THANK YOU!

This will be disastrous for NZ and our region:

The factory will:

·         take 1.1 million m3 of deep-aquifer water/year 

·         discharge up to 450m3 per day of high-phosphorus process water to a local stream flowing into the Tarawera River. 

·         produce 6m3 of compressed plastic waste daily, from reject bottles and packaging  AND produce 2,451, 960 bottles (of various sizes) each day. 

·         create 202 truck and trailer journeys from Tauranga to Otakiri (and associated emissions) each day - that's one truck every three minutes.

 

We can win this!

Minister Eugenie Sage said she was powerless to stop this, but the community isn't!  

Sustainable Otakiri has appealed the land use consent. If it is successful, the Court’s ruling will prevent Cresswell building the plant and buying the land. The Society has a strongly arguable case that the application should be declined.  AWA has seen the legal advice and agrees that the case needs to be heard by the Environment Court.  The Hearing will be held on 20th May this year - in a matter of weeks. If the Society can't raise $43,125 by 8th May then it will have to withdraw its appeal. Sustainable Otakiri has twice applied for Government funding via the Environmental Legal Assistance fund and has now been turned down for the second time. 

 

 

 

Who are we? 

Aotearoa Water Action is a group of volunteers working hard to protect New Zealand’s water sovereignty - we want to ensure there will always be enough clean water to meet the various needs of New Zealand’s communities and to support healthy ecosystems.  Part of our role is to facilitate legal action to achieve that, so we’re fundraising on behalf of Sustainable Otakiri so they can continue their court battle against Cresswell NZ. 

Our website is www.aotearoawateraction.org & our facebook page is @aotearoawateraction 

Aotearoa Water Action has received permission from Sustainable Otakiri to run the Pledge Me campaign. If the campaign is successful, all money raised will go towards the group's (capped) legal and expert witness costs -$25 000 +GST for legal costs and $12,500 + GST for expert evidence.  If the group decides they have to settle and withdraw the appeal then the full amount will be refunded to AWA to be put to one or more of the following purposes (in priority order): helping tangata whenua oppose two bottling plants proposed for Murupara; funding opposition to any other proposed plants in the Bay of Plenty;  funding opposition to any other bottling plant(s). 

AWA and Sustainable Otakiri are run 100% by volunteers so all money raised goes towards legal costs.

Sustainable Otakiri's facebook page is save Our Wai @sustainableotakiri

 

It’s time to care a whole lot more about our precious water and how we use it!

 

Media & Resources:

Consent granted for Chinese water bottling giant to purchase Otakiri Spring

Green MP and minister Eugenie Sage under fire from party members over Otakiri water-bottling decision

Whakatāne iwi appeal water bottling consents

Decision Report

 

 Rewards:

Cedar Nook B&B, Otakiri.

 

 

 

 

 

 

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NZ Government secretly funded water botting companies

04/04/2019 at 2:46 PM

Hi team

We're getting there - thanks for the support!

Here's a link to the story that aired on April 2nd: TVNZ Story - 2 April 2079

And here's the text of our Press Release that no outlet seemed to want to publish:

Media release 4 April 2019
NEW ZEALAND GOVERNMENT SECRETLY FUNDED WATER BOTTLING COMPANIES
New Zealand Trade and Enterprise (NZTE) has spent hundreds of thousands of dollars of tax payer money to fund two water bottling companies but has refused to release the names or locations of the companies involved or what exactly the money was given to them for. It has confirmed one company is foreign owned.
Documents obtained by Aotearoa Water Action (AWA) under the Official Information Act also reveal that NZTE invited water bottling company Nongfu to visit New Zealand in April 2015. The company is seeking to significantly expand the existing Otakiri Spring bottling plant in the Bay of Plenty with strong public opposition. Documents out of Minister Parker’s Office state that Nongfu Spring’s project with Otakiri Spring is in the NZTE investment pipeline as a ‘significant project’.
Sustainable Otakiri, a neighbourhood group challenging the resource consent, is seeking to block the 16,800m2 plant which will take up to 1,100,000m3 of local water per year, discharge up to 450m3 of phosphorus-rich process water per day into a nearby stream and put another 202 truck and trailer units daily on the already dangerous road to Tauranga.
“It’s a shock to learn that Nongfu may have potentially been funded by the taxpayer to take our water,” says Maureen Fraser of Sustainable Otakiri. “It’s clear that the government and our local council have been pushing this deal and the industry for years and it’s all been done in the shadows. The lack of transparency around this is a big concern. We feel let down – by the government, Minister Sage and our local council.”
She says it is unbelievable that the government is willing to fund multi-million dollar water bottling companies yet has left community group Sustainable Otakiri to crowdfund its Environment Court appeal against a subsidiary of Nongfu after the Government’s Environmental Legal Assistance Fund (ELA) declined its application making it virtually impossible for the community to challenge the consents.
Peter Richardson of Aotearoa Water Action (AWA) says the Resource Management Act was designed to have public participation as a check and balance but the financial obstacles for people wanting to oppose decisions is prohibitive leaving communities vulnerable. AWA has set up a PledgeMe campaign to help assist Sustainable Otakiri’s appeal.
“If the Ministry won’t create good law to manage water allocation, won’t adequately oversee the implementation of the Act by local councils and won’t fund public participation then the necessary safeguards, checks and balances aren’t there and our environment is at risk.”

ENDS

 

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    Anonymous pledger
    13/04/2019 at 9:28am

    "Thank you to all the volunteers driving this most important resistance"

    Jocelyn Doe-Goodman
    12/04/2019 at 6:07pm
    Martin Damon
    12/04/2019 at 2:47pm
    Pauline Sigurgeirson
    12/04/2019 at 9:35am
    June
    11/04/2019 at 9:49am
    Anonymous pledger
    10/04/2019 at 9:24am

    "Water = Life & is Precious; Do Not sell it & become slaves of who Controls it!!!"

    Anonymous pledger
    09/04/2019 at 10:14pm
    Stephanie Chamberlin
    09/04/2019 at 9:13pm
    Anonymous pledger
    09/04/2019 at 8:33pm
    Anonymous pledger
    09/04/2019 at 11:45am
    Lucy Farland
    09/04/2019 at 11:07am

    "Thank you for fighting this on NZ's behalf, all the very best!"

    Simon Nieper
    09/04/2019 at 10:02am

    "Good luck, this giving free water to overseas companies is a bad joke."

    Alex
    09/04/2019 at 9:10am
    Simon Bennett
    08/04/2019 at 10:01pm

    "Stop them. "

    Anonymous pledger
    08/04/2019 at 9:22pm
    Jo Lewin
    08/04/2019 at 8:21pm
    Carol Bacon
    08/04/2019 at 7:41pm
    Kay Edgecumbe
    08/04/2019 at 5:49pm

    "hope we win"

    Bobbi Munday
    08/04/2019 at 4:59pm

    " Bryan Bruce 2019-04-06 09:34:01 +1300 "We really need to defend our country and our natural resources against exploitation by huge overseas companies. We are the kaitiaki . We are the guardians of our environment .Let's fight this battle not only for our own sakes but for the generations who come after us. Kia Kaha""

    Anonymous pledger
    08/04/2019 at 4:45pm

    "This campaign to stop water bottling in NZ by overseas interests is too important to ignore."

    Bruce Walker
    08/04/2019 at 1:28pm
    Tracie May
    07/04/2019 at 8:34pm
    Anonymous pledger
    07/04/2019 at 10:04am
    Billie Lawson
    07/04/2019 at 8:43am
    Anonymous pledger
    07/04/2019 at 8:11am

    "Kia kaha team. Dont give in to these dickheads!"

    Anonymous pledger
    07/04/2019 at 8:09am
    Tracey Burgess-Jones
    07/04/2019 at 7:36am
    Tamara Cartwright
    07/04/2019 at 1:54am
    Charlotte Andrews
    06/04/2019 at 9:36pm
    Anonymous pledger
    06/04/2019 at 7:41pm

    "If no one owns our water how can it be sold, and I would think the Maori people may have a claim to it anyway "

    Followers

    Followers of Love Our Wai - Let's stop the plastic!

    Love Our Wai - Let's Stop The Plastic!

    Project 2019-03-17 17:27:11 +1300

     

    New Zealand: The plastic creation nation. Is this our future?

    Sustainable Otakiri needs to raise $43,125 by May 8th or it may have to withdraw its Environment Court appeal against Cresswell NZ.  Please give us a chance to stop the bottling and STOP THE PLASTIC!

    PLEDGE or DONATE (Otakiri Save Our Water and Environment 06 0489 0754608 30 ) THANK YOU!

    This will be disastrous for NZ and our region:

    The factory will:

    ·         take 1.1 million m3 of deep-aquifer water/year 

    ·         discharge up to 450m3 per day of high-phosphorus process water to a local stream flowing into the Tarawera River. 

    ·         produce 6m3 of compressed plastic waste daily, from reject bottles and packaging  AND produce 2,451, 960 bottles (of various sizes) each day. 

    ·         create 202 truck and trailer journeys from Tauranga to Otakiri (and associated emissions) each day - that's one truck every three minutes.

     

    We can win this!

    Minister Eugenie Sage said she was powerless to stop this, but the community isn't!  

    Sustainable Otakiri has appealed the land use consent. If it is successful, the Court’s ruling will prevent Cresswell building the plant and buying the land. The Society has a strongly arguable case that the application should be declined.  AWA has seen the legal advice and agrees that the case needs to be heard by the Environment Court.  The Hearing will be held on 20th May this year - in a matter of weeks. If the Society can't raise $43,125 by 8th May then it will have to withdraw its appeal. Sustainable Otakiri has twice applied for Government funding via the Environmental Legal Assistance fund and has now been turned down for the second time. 

     

     

     

    Who are we? 

    Aotearoa Water Action is a group of volunteers working hard to protect New Zealand’s water sovereignty - we want to ensure there will always be enough clean water to meet the various needs of New Zealand’s communities and to support healthy ecosystems.  Part of our role is to facilitate legal action to achieve that, so we’re fundraising on behalf of Sustainable Otakiri so they can continue their court battle against Cresswell NZ. 

    Our website is www.aotearoawateraction.org & our facebook page is @aotearoawateraction 

    Aotearoa Water Action has received permission from Sustainable Otakiri to run the Pledge Me campaign. If the campaign is successful, all money raised will go towards the group's (capped) legal and expert witness costs -$25 000 +GST for legal costs and $12,500 + GST for expert evidence.  If the group decides they have to settle and withdraw the appeal then the full amount will be refunded to AWA to be put to one or more of the following purposes (in priority order): helping tangata whenua oppose two bottling plants proposed for Murupara; funding opposition to any other proposed plants in the Bay of Plenty;  funding opposition to any other bottling plant(s). 

    AWA and Sustainable Otakiri are run 100% by volunteers so all money raised goes towards legal costs.

    Sustainable Otakiri's facebook page is save Our Wai @sustainableotakiri

     

    It’s time to care a whole lot more about our precious water and how we use it!

     

    Media & Resources:

    Consent granted for Chinese water bottling giant to purchase Otakiri Spring

    Green MP and minister Eugenie Sage under fire from party members over Otakiri water-bottling decision

    Whakatāne iwi appeal water bottling consents

    Decision Report

     

     Rewards:

    Cedar Nook B&B, Otakiri.

     

     

     

     

     

     

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    NZ Government secretly funded water botting companies

    04/04/2019 at 2:46 PM

    Hi team

    We're getting there - thanks for the support!

    Here's a link to the story that aired on April 2nd: TVNZ Story - 2 April 2079

    And here's the text of our Press Release that no outlet seemed to want to publish:

    Media release 4 April 2019
    NEW ZEALAND GOVERNMENT SECRETLY FUNDED WATER BOTTLING COMPANIES
    New Zealand Trade and Enterprise (NZTE) has spent hundreds of thousands of dollars of tax payer money to fund two water bottling companies but has refused to release the names or locations of the companies involved or what exactly the money was given to them for. It has confirmed one company is foreign owned.
    Documents obtained by Aotearoa Water Action (AWA) under the Official Information Act also reveal that NZTE invited water bottling company Nongfu to visit New Zealand in April 2015. The company is seeking to significantly expand the existing Otakiri Spring bottling plant in the Bay of Plenty with strong public opposition. Documents out of Minister Parker’s Office state that Nongfu Spring’s project with Otakiri Spring is in the NZTE investment pipeline as a ‘significant project’.
    Sustainable Otakiri, a neighbourhood group challenging the resource consent, is seeking to block the 16,800m2 plant which will take up to 1,100,000m3 of local water per year, discharge up to 450m3 of phosphorus-rich process water per day into a nearby stream and put another 202 truck and trailer units daily on the already dangerous road to Tauranga.
    “It’s a shock to learn that Nongfu may have potentially been funded by the taxpayer to take our water,” says Maureen Fraser of Sustainable Otakiri. “It’s clear that the government and our local council have been pushing this deal and the industry for years and it’s all been done in the shadows. The lack of transparency around this is a big concern. We feel let down – by the government, Minister Sage and our local council.”
    She says it is unbelievable that the government is willing to fund multi-million dollar water bottling companies yet has left community group Sustainable Otakiri to crowdfund its Environment Court appeal against a subsidiary of Nongfu after the Government’s Environmental Legal Assistance Fund (ELA) declined its application making it virtually impossible for the community to challenge the consents.
    Peter Richardson of Aotearoa Water Action (AWA) says the Resource Management Act was designed to have public participation as a check and balance but the financial obstacles for people wanting to oppose decisions is prohibitive leaving communities vulnerable. AWA has set up a PledgeMe campaign to help assist Sustainable Otakiri’s appeal.
    “If the Ministry won’t create good law to manage water allocation, won’t adequately oversee the implementation of the Act by local councils and won’t fund public participation then the necessary safeguards, checks and balances aren’t there and our environment is at risk.”

    ENDS

     

    You need to pledge to see this update.

      Anonymous pledger
      13/04/2019 at 9:28am

      "Thank you to all the volunteers driving this most important resistance"

      Jocelyn Doe-Goodman
      12/04/2019 at 6:07pm
      Martin Damon
      12/04/2019 at 2:47pm
      Pauline Sigurgeirson
      12/04/2019 at 9:35am
      June
      11/04/2019 at 9:49am
      Anonymous pledger
      10/04/2019 at 9:24am

      "Water = Life & is Precious; Do Not sell it & become slaves of who Controls it!!!"

      Anonymous pledger
      09/04/2019 at 10:14pm
      Stephanie Chamberlin
      09/04/2019 at 9:13pm
      Anonymous pledger
      09/04/2019 at 8:33pm
      Anonymous pledger
      09/04/2019 at 11:45am
      Lucy Farland
      09/04/2019 at 11:07am

      "Thank you for fighting this on NZ's behalf, all the very best!"

      Simon Nieper
      09/04/2019 at 10:02am

      "Good luck, this giving free water to overseas companies is a bad joke."

      Alex
      09/04/2019 at 9:10am
      Simon Bennett
      08/04/2019 at 10:01pm

      "Stop them. "

      Anonymous pledger
      08/04/2019 at 9:22pm
      Jo Lewin
      08/04/2019 at 8:21pm
      Carol Bacon
      08/04/2019 at 7:41pm
      Kay Edgecumbe
      08/04/2019 at 5:49pm

      "hope we win"

      Bobbi Munday
      08/04/2019 at 4:59pm

      " Bryan Bruce 2019-04-06 09:34:01 +1300 "We really need to defend our country and our natural resources against exploitation by huge overseas companies. We are the kaitiaki . We are the guardians of our environment .Let's fight this battle not only for our own sakes but for the generations who come after us. Kia Kaha""

      Anonymous pledger
      08/04/2019 at 4:45pm

      "This campaign to stop water bottling in NZ by overseas interests is too important to ignore."

      Bruce Walker
      08/04/2019 at 1:28pm
      Tracie May
      07/04/2019 at 8:34pm
      Anonymous pledger
      07/04/2019 at 10:04am
      Billie Lawson
      07/04/2019 at 8:43am
      Anonymous pledger
      07/04/2019 at 8:11am

      "Kia kaha team. Dont give in to these dickheads!"

      Anonymous pledger
      07/04/2019 at 8:09am
      Tracey Burgess-Jones
      07/04/2019 at 7:36am
      Tamara Cartwright
      07/04/2019 at 1:54am
      Charlotte Andrews
      06/04/2019 at 9:36pm
      Anonymous pledger
      06/04/2019 at 7:41pm

      "If no one owns our water how can it be sold, and I would think the Maori people may have a claim to it anyway "

      Followers of Love Our Wai - Let's stop the plastic!

      This campaign was successful and got its funding on 08/05/2019 at 12:00 PM.