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Board of Inquiry Process update and Fundraiser

As you all know, the industrial incinerator that we are resisting in Te Awamutu has gone to a Board of Inquiry process. The Zero Waste Network (ZWN), a key ally in this process, have started a fundraiser to pay for experts for the upcoming Board of Inquiry. The Don't Burn Waipa committee wanted to reach out to ask for your help at this critical time.

The Zero Waste Network's Regeneration Not Incineration programme (RNI) are aiming to raise $20,000 by the end of February. We know that's an ambitious goal, but this is money specifically earmarked to compensate specific experts to provide evidence at the Te Awamutu Board of Inquiry.

Expert evidence is what is going to win this case for our community and set a strong precedent for other projects like this that have been proposed in other areas of New Zealand. We need to have the right people ready to go on our behalf.

So here is what we're asking:

1) Would you be willing to get behind the fundraiser and make a donation TODAY? Make your donation directly to Zero Waste Network: 38-9005-0364525-00. Please use ‘RNI Te Awamutu’ as a reference.

2) Are you able to help us (Don't Burn Waipa and Zero Waste Network) promote the fundraiser through your networks and social media channels?

There are more details on the ZWN website here.

Thank you very much for your consideration of this request.

--The Dont Burn Waipa Committee

PlumePlotter

Plume Plotter is an international website dedicated to modelling the exhaust plumes from both existing and proposed waste incinerators. It uses the United States EPA software AERMOD and local meteorological air data to show live or modelled exhaust plumes from either real or proposed incinerators. The data used to generate the image below for the proposed Te Awamutu incinerator is based on the publically available information in the applicant's consent documents and NZ meterological data.

"Plume Plotter has plotted more than 80 incinerators but has never seen such high fallout as the proposed #Waipa incinerator."-- Plume Plotter (quoted here).

See a years worth of modelled data speeded up (based on 2023 weather) on YouTube here.

DBW acknowledges and thanks the Plume Plotter team for their effort in assessing all consent documents and for the technical modelling required to create the information below. The image below is updated hourly and will be shown when you reload this page.

More information on the Te Awamutu plumeplotter page can be viewed here with additional display parameters.

Free Fact Sheets on Incineration

The Regeneration Not Incineration campaign (Zero Waste Network) has made seven free fact sheets available that can be downloaded and printed to share information about the realities of waste Incineration.

Please click on the images below to start downloading them