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Rich Lister Rooney knocked back on high country scheme

Gary Rooney and business partners wanted to build two irrigation and hydro electric dams in the Lewis Pass in Canterbury's high country.

Chris Hutching
Mon, 30 Nov 2015

An irrigation scheme proposed by Canterbury businessman and Rich Lister Gary Rooney has been refused resource consent. 

He and business partners wanted to build two irrigation and hydro electric dams in the Lewis Pass in Canterbury’s high country.

It would have used the Kakapo Brook, which flows

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Chris Hutching
Mon, 30 Nov 2015
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