‘More Motunui obstacles’
PA Wellington Environmentalists in Taranaki said yesterday that more obstacles would have to be overcome before Mobil and the Government could begin building their synthetic gasoline plant at Motunui. . The formal signing of the Mobil-Government agreement sounded like a public relations exercise, said the chairman of the North Taranaki Environmental
Association. Dr Ben Gray, of Waitara. Construction of the plant. skm north of Waitara. still depended on. the outcome of court proceedings, he said. The association and the Ngati Rahiri sub-tribe of Te Atiawa have appealed against the Planning Tribunal's decision to allow :he plant to go ahead. Mobil and the Minister of Snergy (Mr Birch) have con-
-eded that construction defended on financial arrange- 1 Tients and on Planning , Tribunal decisions. Dr Gray , said he was sus- i picious of Friday's signing 1 and said it may have been a I ■‘big smokescreen" designed | to convince the public that | the plant was a fail accom- | pli. The signing was a prc-i' judgment of the Court of i Appeal. Dr Gray said.
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