We had the former Banks Peninsula District Council discharging sewage into Akaroa Harbour, establishing their wastewater plant adjacent to one of the most important sites in Aotearoa New Zealand history—at Takapūneke, where 200 people died because of Te Rauparaha's use of the brig Elizabeth and the deceitful actions of Captain Thomas. That establishment of the waste-water plant—the establishment of the dump there—would not have happened if Ngāi Tahu had been at the table. 