Open Country Dairy

In September 2020 a judge in the Hamilton District Court convicted and fined this company NZ$137,500 for discharging odour that caused harm to residents in the Waharoa community last year. The company was also ordered to put NZ$120,00 into a trust for the community as reparation. It was the fifth environmental prosecution against the company in this area.
Source: NZ Herald (2020)

In October 2019, this company was convicted and handed down a fine of NZ$221,250 by the Morrinsville District Court under the Resource Management Act, for its recidivist dirty dairy behaviour. This company discharged objectionable odours that caused significant impacts on the local community and unlawfully discharged wastewater impacting on the local river. It was the fifth prosecution of this company, or its predecessor, relating to discharges into the environment and the company agreed to an enforcement order prohibiting further objectionable odour.
Source: NZ Herald (2019)