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Wellington, Sept 9 NZPA - One of the country's biggest dairy farming operations say they have been hounded by authorities over dirty dairying and will sell all their farms.
The Crafar family, which owns Crafarms, is selling the 22 dairy and dry stock farms the company owns in the central North Island.
Crafar-owned farms have been prosecuted for a string of resource consent infringements over a number of years, mostly for breaching effluent discharge rules.
In the latest case last month, the company, brothers Allan and Frank Crafar and Allan's wife Elizabeth were fined a record $90,000 after being convicted of 34 charges relating to a "systemic failure" of an effluent system on a farm near Hamilton.
Waikato Regional Council, which brought the prosecution, said the farm had dairy effluent seeping from ponds, discharges from feed pads onto yards and land, discharges from a broken irrigator hose, overflows from sumps, over-irrigation of paddocks.
Allan Crafar told Radio New Zealand that the family felt hounded by councils and government red tape and the latest conviction was the final straw.
The regional council denied the charge saying in some cases prosecutions against the company were the result of complaints from the public.
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Well I fell that the
Well I fell that the goverment can be somewhat a nusience when it comes to you owe me , but it's different when they owe us. I have heard alot about this topic since it came to be reported. I feel that given the circumstances, yeah! you should be responsible enough to know the situation surrounding the employees in your business & what they are doing etc: My point is I fell there is to much time wasted on this topic the waters have been affected yeah but at the long run the goverment does just the same sort of practices with companies in which they play a big role like carter holt harvey for one, leaking poisons into the rivers years ago when I was a little girl I know I have seen it. And also my partner he is a qualified tree feller he use to work for D.O.C if only O.S.H knew what dangerous poaitions they were putting their employees into. I'm not sticking up for the carfar's because I have a little girl who's father doe's not want to take responsibllity! because his life has been to sheltered me on the other hand I have suffered.
So no I am not sticking up for them even though I do know they are considerate people so I have been told by a trusty source.
My closing argument is that even though these people are rich it seem's that the more money you have to get goverment departments involved the more covered your ARSE! is I say it how I see it & the goverment has been telling us to long not what it is but how to see it enough is enough I say leave them alone do yourselve own departments GOVERMENT.