How the Oceania milk-treatment plant near Glenavy could
look.
No appeals have been received on the resource consents
granted for the proposed $90 million Oceania Dairy
milk-processing plant near Glenavy, with the appeal period
ending this week.
The company was granted resource consents by Environment
Canterbury (ECan) and the Waimate District Council at the end
of last month and parties had 15 working days after that to
file appeals with the Environment Court.
That deadline expires tomorrow The Environment Court's office
in Christchurch said yesterday no appeals had yet been filed
and three parties involved in the resource consents process,
including Oceania, indicated yesterday they would not be
doing so.
Oceania acting chief executive Paul Park said yesterday his
company was "relatively happy" with the consents, and the
conditions granted by ECan and the Waimate council and would
not be lodging an appeal.
The company had already called for tenders from two
contractors for supplying the main plant for the factory,
which would be built on a 5.5ha site about 3.5km north of
Glenavy in Cooneys Rd, just east of State Highway 1.
Contractors would make presentations to Oceania on their
tenders at the end of this month, and it was likely a
contract would be finalised by the end of next month.
That would meet the timetable to start construction in
May-June and have the new plant operating in August 2011.
The new plant would be capable of processing up to 220
million litres of milk a year from 50,000 cows, with the vast
majority of the milk coming from within a close radius of the
plant in North Otago and South Canterbury.
During construction, up to 200 workers will be employed and
when the plant is operational, there will be between 60 and
70 new jobs created at the plant and with outside contractors
servicing it.
The plant will have a 45m-high boiler exhaust stack, 35m-high
drier tower and ancillary buildings up to 10m high.
Two neighbouring farmers objected to resource consents being
granted for the plant, their main concerns were the effect on
groundwater levels with the plant disposing of treated milk
wastewater on the ground, and the effect on the landscape and
the health effects - particularly on people suffering from
asthma - created by the coal-fired boiler.
Andrew and Jane McFarlane and Robin and May Murphy said
yesterday they would not be appealing the resource consents
to the Environment Court.
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