New Plymouth environment court dishes out hundreds of thousands of dollars worth of fines
Hundreds of thousands of dollars in fines have been handed out at the Environment Court in New Plymouth over ecological blunders. The lapses include a 60-tonne fatberg that blocked a sewage pump station and sent faecal matter readings in the harbour to record levels. In another incident, a sewage spill into a Bell Block stream killed more than a thousand fish and eels, discolouring the ocean up to a kilometre out to sea. Taranaki Whanganui reporter Robin Martin was in court.