Trevor Le Lievre: “Petition a success! As a community we can shape the narrative about options for Wise Water Use of our water resource.”

Paul Bailey: “Mr Petersen is extolling the environmental benefits without mentioning the HB public would pay via a HBRC rate rise of 17%”

Alistair Setter: “The concerns raised by WWU in its petition are indeed reasonable… We appreciate the work that has been undertaken”.

Dr Le Lievre: “Spend as much of their own money as they wish; however, when they dip into the publics back pockets, they become accountable”

Andrew Robb: “Have CHB power consumers really been paying their power bills to help a private company build themselves a dam?”

Dr Le Lievre: “I am critical of the lack of transparency …this spend occurred without public consultation or any subsequent announcement.”

Johannes Hoogenboom commends WWU’s Gren Christie for identifying those people wishing to “milk Centralines consumers".

Unpublished follow-up to HB Today’s front page exposé of Centralines’ $200K handout to Dam group. Submitted to local newspapers 3 wks ago

George Harper questions Centralines funding private-interest group promoting inappropriate land use on Ruataniwha plains

Wise Water Use’s Gren Christie highlights the network of local elites intent on resurrecting failed Ruataniwha dam, with public money

Letters submitted in response to Centralines giving $200,000 to Tukituki Water Security Ltd.

Local farmer Tim Gilbertson advocates for resurrection of Ruataniwha Dam, but fails to declare vested interest as part-owner of dam consents

The director of the Centralines board, Ian Walker is forced to defend the granting of $200K to a private company Tukituki Water Security Ltd