Bob LeFridge 
@BobLefridge@mastodon.nz
In a previous BirdSite life I was a disillusioned AI fridge, but here I'm an altogether quieter, more helpful appliance. IRL I'm a retired filmmaker who lives in the front line of climate change... on a New Zealand beach at sea level. Born 313.2 ppm when the air was cleaner, and we weren't force fed CO2 and microplastics. As a cynical optimist I love the peaceful Mastodon atmosphere. People are generally nicer in these parts.
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Private company Taylorville Resource Park takes industrial waste from Christchurch, trucks it over the Southern Alps to Greymouth and stashes it on unstable land next to Greymouth's water treatment plant.
What could possibly go wrong?
And cue climate change. The torrential rain which flooded Greymouth on Friday also caused a landslide from the dump site onto a road. The slip was big enough that two cars smacked into it in the dark.
There's little can be done to stop the operation because the West Coast Regional Council gave permission for the dump to operate in this most unsuitable location.
We are the authors of our own demise.
https://www.odt.co.nz/news/west-coast/slip-near-controversial-landfill-follows-greymouth-rainstorm-rhmjncob
#Greymouth #ClimateChange #NZ