A Taranaki environmental group is calling for an end to landfarming in the province.

The Ministry for Primary Industries has not yet answered any questions about the new landfarming regime.

The group also opposes landfarming in the district's coastal protection area, and in significant water catchments and wetlands.

A Taranaki dairy farmer has been fined for breaching resource consents conditions for the controversial practice of landfarming.

Catherine Cheung is a researcher for the environmental lobby group Climate Justice Taranaki, which has campaigned against landfarming.

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Catherine Cheung, a researcher for Climate Justice Taranaki which has long raised its concerns about landfarming, said the new locked gate policy vindicated its activism.

Remediation New Zealand wants to renew consents for its landfarming, vermiculture and composting business in Uruti, but locals want it to shut up shop completely.

Part of the Revital Group, which describes itself as an organic compost producer, it is also involved in "landfarming" of oil and gas drilling waste.

Landfarming is where drilling waste is spread on marginal land and microbes in the soil then break down the waste.

Landfarming is a process that enhances the microbial degradation of hazardous compounds in contaminated muds and sludges, such as drilling cuttings.

Landfarming is the practice of spreading oil and gas wastes onto marginal farmland to allow it to break down and later be resown with pasture.

A Taranaki environmental group is calling for an end to landfarming in the province.

The Ministry for Primary Industries has not yet answered any questions about the new landfarming regime.

The group also opposes landfarming in the district's coastal protection area, and in significant water catchments and wetlands.