Wiri plan dearer

Press, 29 December 1980, Page 21

Wiri plan dearer

The latest proposal for a bulk L.P.G. depot in Win, South Auckland, xvill cost the Liqui-Gas consortium about $2 million more than the plan rejected in Onehunga earlier this year. But its new out-of-the-way route and underground tanks already seem to be finding some favour. Mr R. Hayward, leader of the Onehunga group that coordinated action against siting the bulk storage depot in

the Pikes Point area, said the new installation proposal appeared “to be an improvement from a safety point of view.” Mr R. Wood, the Manukau city manager—in whose territory the Wiri depot is sited —said any formal application from Liqui-Gas would be treated no differently from any other normal application. Details released of the

latest site to be evaluated showed a 1500 tonne depot being fed by skm of underground pipe. L.P.G. will be delivered from coastal tankers to a sea mooring 225 km off-shore in the Manukau Harbour. The underground pipe would run through rural and industrial land to the site. According to Mr V. Burgoyne, an engineer with Shell Oil—one of the LiquiGas partners — safety considerations had been paramount in choosing the sea mooring, the pipeline, and the sha Wiri site. Mr Burgoyne said a year’s option, with right of renewal for a further year, had been taken on the Wiri land so that a full technical evaluation could be made. Liqui-Gas will be also submitting details to an American firm of safety consultants for comment