The country's only oil refinery expects to decontaminate and decommission its equipment, but is not required to have a clean-up plan in place yet for the polluted groundwater and land at Marsden Point.
Refining NZ is moving quickly, to get shareholder approval to shut down refining in 2021.
The Government faces clean-up problems at industrial sites elsewhere, but despite that, its officials have had little communication about this with Refining NZ.
Phil Pennington is looking into this.
