Locals back legal action against potentially-toxic waste dumped in Mataura

Locals have thrown their support behind legal action launched against the producers of potentially-toxic waste stored at a disused papermill in Mataura.

The Environmental Defence Society has filed Environment Court proceedings against New Zealand Aluminium Smelters over the 10,000 tonnes of so-called ouvea premix dumped in the small Southland town in 2014.

RNZ’s Otago-Southland reporter Timothy Brown has the details.

Locals back legal action against potentially-toxic waste dumped in Mataura
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