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Andrew Dickens: Are we sticking by clean green NZ?
On Friday I interviewed a representative of oyster farmers in the Mahurangi area who were outraged at a wastewater dump by Watercare that had poisoned their oysters.
They have to close for 28 days. One farmer has to dump 80,000 oysters. That’s not good for business or their cashflow.
As the interview went on I found out that this is not an isolated incident. It’s already happened 39 times before this year. And even worse Watercare has the right to do a dump like this 200 times every year.
I was flabbergasted. That seems like an awful lot of dumping.
Then in the weekend I got a call from a…
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