Fertiliser company Ballance has been fined more than 82-thousand dollars over a 20 to 30 metre cloud of sulphur dioxide gas that escaped from its factory in Mount Maunganui
Fertiliser company Ballance has been fined more than 82-thousand dollars over a 20 to 30 metre cloud of sulphur dioxide gas that escaped from its factory in Mount Maunganui
17 July 2018
The gas drifted over a nearby street ... two people who breathed it in were hospitalised.
People exposed to the gas cloud suffered effects ranging from a metallic taste, to difficulty breathing.
The discharge,in May last year,was caused by a communication botch up during a shift change .
The sentencing judge says an aggravating factor is two previous, similar offences in 1999 and 2014.
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