Save Our Wai - High Court Appeal
By Save Our Wai by Sustainable Otakiri Inc.
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New Zealand: The plastic creation nation. Is this our future?
Sustainable Otakiri needs to raise $35,000 by January 20th, 2020 or it may have to leave any ambitions of a Court appeal against Cresswell NZ (a Chinese-owned subsidiary company) to save our precious water resource for future generations.
Please give us a chance to stop the bottling and STOP THE PLASTIC! PLEDGE or DONATE Direct (Save Our Water and Environment 06 0489 0754608 30). THANK YOU!
This proposal would be disastrous for NZ and our region. The factory intends to:
- Take 1.1 million m3 of deep-aquifer water/year from an aquifer that was previously classified as over-allocated.
- 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.
- Export the majority of this bottled water to China.
- Produce 2,451,960 up to 3.7million bottles (of various sizes) each day. That's up to 1.35 billion a year!
- Create 202 truck and trailer journeys from Tauranga to Otakiri (and associated emissions) each day - that's one truck every three minutes to the Port of Tauranga.
- Set a dangerous new precedent nationwide for allowable consent creep without public consultation, given this expansion is 20 and in some areas 50 fold in upscale.
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 in the Environment Court and we have grounds to take this fight to the High Court after Commissioner Kernohan echoed that projects like these industrial scale developments should be Publicly Notified. If it is successful, the Court's ruling will prevent Cresswell building the plant and buying the land without seeking full public consultation, and I'm sure we will all have a lot to say!
The Society has a strongly arguable case that the application should be declined. Sustainable Otakiri has seen the legal advice, discussed with various support groups and agrees that the case needs to be heard by the High Court. The Courts are very strict on how long you have to raise an appeal to the High Court - it is just a matter of weeks. If the Society can't raise $35,000 by the 20th of January then it will have to cancel its plans to appeal. Sustainable Otakiri has twice applied to the government's legal assistance fund and we have been turned down both times. We need your help!
Who are we? Sustainable Otakiri Incorporated is the society behind the Save Our Wai movement. Some close associations we have are with Aotearoa Water Action (Awa), Greater Tauranga and many more amazing organisations.
If you are opposed to 3.7million new, single use plastic bottles being produced in our region every single day (where they produced none before) and shipped overseas to China - Please donate.
If you think that companies who apply to produce massive quantities of plastic should be required to take financial responsibility for the whole life of what they produce - Please donate.
If you're opposed to the public not being consulted on the actual long term affects of Industrial scale developments and are appalled you're not being given the opportunity to decide if this is the NZ you want - Please donate.
If you're worried what sort of precedent this application sets when a 20-50 fold increase in a business's size can occur like the massive increase in trucking this would allow (without consultation) into Tauranga - Please donate.
If you believe that water is one of Aotearoa New Zealand's most precious resources and should be protected from overseas corporate greed - Please donate.
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Ngati Awa are off to the High Court too!
18/01/2020 at 4:29 PM
Excited to be heading back into the High Court alongside Ngati Awa.
Ngati Awa announced last night that they too are heading to the High Court to fight against Creswell wanting to set up this industrial scale water bottling plant.
In the environment court they brought an excellent case and will be doing the same I am sure in the High Court.
Some of our arguments will tackle the same topics but we will again be fighting for what we believe are the incorrect applications for land use, which because it was limited notified is an argument only we can bring back to the table.
We still have just over $11,000 to go and our cut off is this Monday at 11am. I urge all our pledgers to share our plight with their friends and social networks urging them to support our cause.
Thank you for all your support to date.
From all the team at Save Our Wai ❤💧✊
Media Coverage of our Mission to Save Our Wai
15/01/2020 at 9:13 AM
Kia ora wonderful supporters, we are very happy to see multiple media outlets sharing the story of the mission Save Our Wai is on to protect our water - an essential, precious resource - from greedy overseas corporates who want to bottle it in plastic and ship it offshore. Here's the latest links to the latest updates and news stories:
- Interview with Radio NZ - should we have a moratorium on water bottling?
- Story by Stuff - Chinese water bottling giant seeks to purchase Otakiri Springs
- Report from NewsHub - time running out for community's fight to protect Otakiri Springs
Please spread the word to your networks so we can get this case in front of the High Court!
- Save Our Wai
Pledgers 607
19/01/2020 at 1:41pm
"I am pledging to save Aotearoa's water supply and prevent more single use plastic being created and used."
19/01/2020 at 1:37pm
19/01/2020 at 12:58pm
19/01/2020 at 12:16pm
19/01/2020 at 11:49am
"Save our wai!!"
19/01/2020 at 11:48am
"Tautoko"
19/01/2020 at 11:30am
19/01/2020 at 11:21am
19/01/2020 at 11:05am
"Good luck and make sure you work with iwi and use the treaty to your advantage it's a bilateral agreement to safeguard NZs taonga "
19/01/2020 at 10:36am
19/01/2020 at 10:33am
19/01/2020 at 10:18am
"This madness has to stop. Kia kaha. "
19/01/2020 at 10:18am
"I feel like water solves all problems. Want to lose weight? Drink water. Clear face? Drink water. Tired of a person? Drown them."
19/01/2020 at 10:16am
"Thank you for your great work defending the precious resources of this country!"
19/01/2020 at 9:58am
19/01/2020 at 9:44am
"Let’s save our wai!!"
19/01/2020 at 9:43am
19/01/2020 at 9:39am
"Moisture is the essence of wetness, and wetness is the essence of beauty."
19/01/2020 at 9:36am
19/01/2020 at 9:04am
"THIS IS SO IMPORTANT PLEASE SAVE OUR WAI !!!"
19/01/2020 at 8:54am
"This could be the only chance to stop the pillaging of our water and being responsible for tons of plastic "
19/01/2020 at 8:51am
"We can do it! "
19/01/2020 at 8:49am
19/01/2020 at 8:44am
19/01/2020 at 8:37am
19/01/2020 at 8:30am
19/01/2020 at 8:10am
"Save our wai! "
19/01/2020 at 7:59am
"Wishing The Very Best of luck to Save Our Wai in their Appeal to the High Court. The issue of water bottling and export of our best and purest water is something that is so important to New Zealanders but no government yet has had the guts to address."
19/01/2020 at 7:34am
19/01/2020 at 7:30am
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Save Our Wai - High Court Appeal
Project 2019-12-19 14:44:54 +1300
New Zealand: The plastic creation nation. Is this our future?
Sustainable Otakiri needs to raise $35,000 by January 20th, 2020 or it may have to leave any ambitions of a Court appeal against Cresswell NZ (a Chinese-owned subsidiary company) to save our precious water resource for future generations.
Please give us a chance to stop the bottling and STOP THE PLASTIC! PLEDGE or DONATE Direct (Save Our Water and Environment 06 0489 0754608 30). THANK YOU!
This proposal would be disastrous for NZ and our region. The factory intends to:
- Take 1.1 million m3 of deep-aquifer water/year from an aquifer that was previously classified as over-allocated.
- 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.
- Export the majority of this bottled water to China.
- Produce 2,451,960 up to 3.7million bottles (of various sizes) each day. That's up to 1.35 billion a year!
- Create 202 truck and trailer journeys from Tauranga to Otakiri (and associated emissions) each day - that's one truck every three minutes to the Port of Tauranga.
- Set a dangerous new precedent nationwide for allowable consent creep without public consultation, given this expansion is 20 and in some areas 50 fold in upscale.
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 in the Environment Court and we have grounds to take this fight to the High Court after Commissioner Kernohan echoed that projects like these industrial scale developments should be Publicly Notified. If it is successful, the Court's ruling will prevent Cresswell building the plant and buying the land without seeking full public consultation, and I'm sure we will all have a lot to say!
The Society has a strongly arguable case that the application should be declined. Sustainable Otakiri has seen the legal advice, discussed with various support groups and agrees that the case needs to be heard by the High Court. The Courts are very strict on how long you have to raise an appeal to the High Court - it is just a matter of weeks. If the Society can't raise $35,000 by the 20th of January then it will have to cancel its plans to appeal. Sustainable Otakiri has twice applied to the government's legal assistance fund and we have been turned down both times. We need your help!
Who are we? Sustainable Otakiri Incorporated is the society behind the Save Our Wai movement. Some close associations we have are with Aotearoa Water Action (Awa), Greater Tauranga and many more amazing organisations.
If you are opposed to 3.7million new, single use plastic bottles being produced in our region every single day (where they produced none before) and shipped overseas to China - Please donate.
If you think that companies who apply to produce massive quantities of plastic should be required to take financial responsibility for the whole life of what they produce - Please donate.
If you're opposed to the public not being consulted on the actual long term affects of Industrial scale developments and are appalled you're not being given the opportunity to decide if this is the NZ you want - Please donate.
If you're worried what sort of precedent this application sets when a 20-50 fold increase in a business's size can occur like the massive increase in trucking this would allow (without consultation) into Tauranga - Please donate.
If you believe that water is one of Aotearoa New Zealand's most precious resources and should be protected from overseas corporate greed - Please donate.
Comments
Ngati Awa are off to the High Court too!
18/01/2020 at 4:29 PM
Excited to be heading back into the High Court alongside Ngati Awa.
Ngati Awa announced last night that they too are heading to the High Court to fight against Creswell wanting to set up this industrial scale water bottling plant.
In the environment court they brought an excellent case and will be doing the same I am sure in the High Court.
Some of our arguments will tackle the same topics but we will again be fighting for what we believe are the incorrect applications for land use, which because it was limited notified is an argument only we can bring back to the table.
We still have just over $11,000 to go and our cut off is this Monday at 11am. I urge all our pledgers to share our plight with their friends and social networks urging them to support our cause.
Thank you for all your support to date.
From all the team at Save Our Wai ❤💧✊
Media Coverage of our Mission to Save Our Wai
15/01/2020 at 9:13 AM
Kia ora wonderful supporters, we are very happy to see multiple media outlets sharing the story of the mission Save Our Wai is on to protect our water - an essential, precious resource - from greedy overseas corporates who want to bottle it in plastic and ship it offshore. Here's the latest links to the latest updates and news stories:
- Interview with Radio NZ - should we have a moratorium on water bottling?
- Story by Stuff - Chinese water bottling giant seeks to purchase Otakiri Springs
- Report from NewsHub - time running out for community's fight to protect Otakiri Springs
Please spread the word to your networks so we can get this case in front of the High Court!
- Save Our Wai
19/01/2020 at 1:41pm
"I am pledging to save Aotearoa's water supply and prevent more single use plastic being created and used."
19/01/2020 at 1:37pm
19/01/2020 at 12:58pm
19/01/2020 at 12:16pm
19/01/2020 at 11:49am
"Save our wai!!"
19/01/2020 at 11:48am
"Tautoko"
19/01/2020 at 11:30am
19/01/2020 at 11:21am
19/01/2020 at 11:05am
"Good luck and make sure you work with iwi and use the treaty to your advantage it's a bilateral agreement to safeguard NZs taonga "
19/01/2020 at 10:36am
19/01/2020 at 10:33am
19/01/2020 at 10:18am
"This madness has to stop. Kia kaha. "
19/01/2020 at 10:18am
"I feel like water solves all problems. Want to lose weight? Drink water. Clear face? Drink water. Tired of a person? Drown them."
19/01/2020 at 10:16am
"Thank you for your great work defending the precious resources of this country!"
19/01/2020 at 9:58am
19/01/2020 at 9:44am
"Let’s save our wai!!"
19/01/2020 at 9:43am
19/01/2020 at 9:39am
"Moisture is the essence of wetness, and wetness is the essence of beauty."
19/01/2020 at 9:36am
19/01/2020 at 9:04am
"THIS IS SO IMPORTANT PLEASE SAVE OUR WAI !!!"
19/01/2020 at 8:54am
"This could be the only chance to stop the pillaging of our water and being responsible for tons of plastic "
19/01/2020 at 8:51am
"We can do it! "
19/01/2020 at 8:49am
19/01/2020 at 8:44am
19/01/2020 at 8:37am
19/01/2020 at 8:30am
19/01/2020 at 8:10am
"Save our wai! "
19/01/2020 at 7:59am
"Wishing The Very Best of luck to Save Our Wai in their Appeal to the High Court. The issue of water bottling and export of our best and purest water is something that is so important to New Zealanders but no government yet has had the guts to address."