dairy farming

A move by three companies wanting to develop dairy farms in the Omarama and Ohau areas to delay a Government-appointed board of inquiry dealing with the effluent discharges has been rejected by Minister for the Environment Nick Smith.

An Auckland-based "green" lobby, the Environmental Defence Society (EDS), says it will file proceedings in the High Court at Timaru next week challenging resource consents for three "cubicle" dairy farms in the Mackenzie Basin.