What’s at stake: Bioplant Tairawhiti was awarded $212,000 under the forestry Industry Transformation Plan to investigate setting up a pyrolysis plant on the East Coast but nothing appears to have happened since it didn’t make the fast-track consenting process last year.
The background: Bioplant got the first tranche of funds at the same time as another company within the Bioplant group withdrew an application to build a pyrolysis plant in Manawatū after a hearing several Horizons Regional Council officers recommended the application be declined and opponents claimed some evidence had been falsified.
Main players: Bioplant Tairawhiti, Bioplant NZ, Industry Transformation Plan, Ministry for Primary Industries.
The players involved in Bioplant Tairawhiti have gone quiet on plans to build a pyrolysis plant on the East Coast despite receiving $212,000 in government backing.
Bioplant Tairawhiti is part of a wider Bioplant group of companies that previously had ambitious plans to build a minimum of 10 plants
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What’s at stake: Bioplant Tairawhiti was awarded $212,000 under the forestry Industry Transformation Plan to investigate setting up a pyrolysis plant on the East Coast but nothing appears to have happened since it didn’t make the fast-track consenting process last year.
The background: Bioplant got the first tranche of funds at the same time as another company within the Bioplant group withdrew an application to build a pyrolysis plant in Manawatū after a hearing several Horizons Regional Council officers recommended the application be declined and opponents claimed some evidence had been falsified.
Main players: Bioplant Tairawhiti, Bioplant NZ, Industry Transformation Plan, Ministry for Primary Industries.
