Contaminated Sites

Green Party MP Catherine Delahunty commends the Hawkes Bay Regional Council for serving an abatement notice on Carter Holt Harvey at their contaminated timber treatment plant site at Waikoau.

A Green Party Budget bid aimed at investigating contaminated land in New Zealand has shed a small shaft of light on dioxin contamination at sawmill sites.

A report, published by the Environment Ministry today, sampled 15 new sites where pentachlorophenol or PCP was used, Co-Leader Russel Norman says.

The Green Party says children are being needlessly put at risk by 18 councils around New Zealand that are spraying playing fields with a highly toxic insecticide, banned in more than 50 countries, when a safer alternative is readily available.

Cabinet needs to step in to sort out a battle involving a Landcorp partnership in which Auckland’s major drinking-water source is threatened, Green Party Co-Leader Russel Norman says.