TNG Fiji Incinerator

15 Apr

Status of the project: Seeking consent from Fiji Government.

Background to the project:

Australian billionaire Ian Malouf (of Dial-a-Dump and TNG), whose Sydney incinerator proposal was rejected by the Independent Planning Commission back in 2018, is now pursuing one in Fiji - where Australia’s waste could be shipped.
The application documents specifically mention New Zealand as a source of waste for the incinerator.
This incinerator would burn 900,000 tonnes of waste per year, more than four times the waste that Fiji produces itself. Incinerating this much rubbish would leave Fiji with between 225,000-300,000 tonnes of highly toxic ash.
See the full fact sheet here
Read our full submission on the project

The community has formally objected to the proposal
Prime Minister Sitiveni Rabuka earlier said he understood the concerns raised by residents and did not support the project proceeding.
Fiji’s Representative has condemned the incinerator in a speech at the United Nations in New York (facebook link)
Two of Fiji's major sporting organisations - the Fiji Rugby Union (FRU) and the Fiji Football Association (Fiji FA) have opposed the setting up of a waste incinerator in the Vuda-Saweni area between the Nadi International Airport and Lautoka city.
- “It's a waste solution for Australia being imposed on Fiji. No country in the world runs an incinerator built primarily to burn another nation's rubbish," - Randall Kamea, a former Flying Fijians player, told ABC's Pacific Beat programme
On 16 April, Zero Waste Aotearoa wrote to the Minister of Foreign Affairs Rt Hon Winston Peters request that the New Zealand Government issue a statement making clear that New Zealand will not export waste to a proposed incinerator in Fiji, or any other Pacific Island. We have sent a similar letter to the NZ Labour Party, Green Party and Te Pati Māori.

Valerie Morse