Two directors of an Auckland electrical company are facing charges of discharging toxic PCBs on commercial land at Eden Tce between 1999 and 2000.
The directors and their company, which went into receivership and was liquidated, are alleged to have discharged PCBs from drums clearly marked as containing polychlorinated bi-phenols, and then left the site leaving the drums behind.
The Auckland Regional Council got permission from the High Court in Auckland to pursue charges after the company was liquidated.
The directors are due to appear in the Auckland District Court on April 4.
PCBs are one of 12 organo-chlorine compounds recognised internationally as being persistent and accumulative in nature, as well as highly environmentally toxic.
The use of PCBs has been banned in New Zealand since 1994.
The ARC is also pursuing the land owner of the contaminated site, who is believed to be living in Taiwan, for $10,000 in clean up costs.
Company directors charged with releasing toxins
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