Company gets $1m for pilot waste reduction project
The government is giving $1 million to Scion Research Ltd so it can pilot a process that reduces sewage waste.
Environment Minister Nick Smith said today the company was developing innovative thermal oxidation technology that greatly reduced the amount of sewage treatment waste and cut greenhouse gas emissions.
The money is coming from the Waste Minimisation Fund and the Rotorua company will work with the disctrict council to pilot the new technology.
"Scion has named this project `Waste 2 Gold' as the thermal oxidation process also generates useable by-products," Dr Smith said.
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This government has no principles. Other taxpayers are funding a risky waste project which if it is successful will make millions for its owners. Those other taxpayers may ell have other projects which they want to fund but now can not while government dishes out favours. This discriminatory subsidy behaviour follows hot on the heels of the major league subsidy of South Canterbury investors following a $40 million investment in NZ Venture Investment Fund. The Nick Smith and Kingkey have outdone all that Labour did and worse. Bring back Labour. They were more conservative.
This government has no principles. Other taxpayers are funding a risky waste project which if it is successful will make millions for its owners. Those other taxpayers may well have other projects which they want to fund but now can not while government dishes out favours. Even if it is only bread on the table. This discriminatory subsidy behaviour follows hot on the heels of the major league subsidy of South Canterbury investors following a $40 million investment in NZ Venture Investment Fund. The Nick Smith and Kingkey have outdone all that Labour did and worse. Bring back Labour. They were more conservative and less socialist in dishing out favours.
Miles - I suggest you do some reading before spouting off. Scion is a Crown Research Institute (key word here being "Crown"), therefore the "owners" who you are so concerned about profiting is infact us, the taxpayer. The Rotorua District Council dumps about 8,500 tonnes of biosolid waste into landfill each year, this project would eliminate all of that. Get off your ideological high horse, this project benefits all NZers.
Bring back Labour? You have got to be joking, Goff is blaming Key for SCF, yet it all happened on Labour's watch....he conveniently forgot that part.
Miles- Scion is one of New Zealand's seven Crown Research Institutes - not a privately owned company. The Rotorua District Council spends about a million dollars a year dealing with human waste. This technology has potentially very big financial cost savings for local Governments and potentially huge environmental benefits in the treatment of waste and creation of valuable products.
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