Ruataniwha dam promoters want to consult mana whenua but Ngāti Kahungunu say 'answer won’t change'.
Ngaio Tiuka: “they could have all the time in the world to consult, the answer is not going to change – “no”.
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Trevor Le Lievre
Aug 14, 20223 min read
BREAKING! Ruataniwha dam back in spotlight! Dam promotion group apply to extend consents to 2030!
Le Lievre: The big question here is why are CHB residents who will be adversely impacted by the dam being denied the opportunity to submit?
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Wise Water Use
Jun 2, 20222 min read
MUST READ. Mike Joy, freshwater ecologist, busts the myth that dams are good for the environment
Mike Joy: “We should be investing in farming solutions that are drought resistant and adaptable to a region’s changing climate”.
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Wise Water Use
Apr 21, 20221 min read
Brian Halstead says Waimea dam is now the most expensive in the country, yet serves so few hectares
Brian Halstead: Waimea cost likely to reach $210m from original estimate of $75m ... “sounds a warning to other proposed storage projects”
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Wise Water Use
Apr 2, 20221 min read
Paul Bailey highlights what the public are not being told by Ruataniwha dam v.2 supporters
Paul Bailey: “Mr Petersen is extolling the environmental benefits without mentioning the HB public would pay via a HBRC rate rise of 17%”
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Trevor Le Lievre
Mar 29, 20223 min read
MUST READ! Tom Belford (Editor, Bay Buzz) explains Hawkes Bay’s water issues in plain language.
Belford: “One might think that allocating $450K of Centralines’ consumers’ and CHBDC ratepayers’ money is throwing good money after bad”
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Gren Christie
Mar 26, 20222 min read
Gren Christie of Wise Water Use laments environmental destruction of Ruahine forest park for dam
Gren Christie: “Trees that ancestors of people living in CHB today may have rested under before Captain Cook saw Aotearoa will be destroyed
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Wise Water Use
Mar 24, 20221 min read
Centralines petition presented to CHB Power Consumers Trust. Alistair Setter (CHBCPT Chair) comments
Alistair Setter: “The concerns raised by WWU in its petition are indeed reasonable… We appreciate the work that has been undertaken”.
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Trevor Le Lievre
Mar 24, 20222 min read
Dr Trevor Le Lievre rebuts Petersen’s and Walker’s defence of Centrelines’ $200K dam spend
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”
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Trevor Le Lievre
Mar 12, 20221 min read
Dr Trevor Le Lievre, Wise Water Use spokesperson, unpacks Centralines’ $200K expenditure in HB Today
Dr Le Lievre: “I am critical of the lack of transparency …this spend occurred without public consultation or any subsequent announcement.”
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Wise Water Use
Mar 5, 20221 min read
Johannes Hoogenboom questions Centralines’ use of power consumers' money
Johannes Hoogenboom commends WWU’s Gren Christie for identifying those people wishing to “milk Centralines consumers".
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Trevor Le Lievre
Mar 5, 20222 min read
Rising Waimea dam costs sink Nelson ratepayers further into debt
Is this wise use of Nelson ratepayer’s money? Wiamea dam doubles in cost from initial $76M to $185M!
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Wise Water Use
Mar 2, 20221 min read
George Harper concerned about Centralines’ encouraging inappropriate land use
George Harper questions Centralines funding private-interest group promoting inappropriate land use on Ruataniwha plains
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Gren Christie
Feb 28, 20221 min read
Same old faces support Dam with public money
Wise Water Use’s Gren Christie highlights the network of local elites intent on resurrecting failed Ruataniwha dam, with public money
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Trevor Le Lievre
Feb 13, 20221 min read
Tim Gilbertson, long term dam advocate, resurfaces.
Local farmer Tim Gilbertson advocates for resurrection of Ruataniwha Dam, but fails to declare vested interest as part-owner of dam consents
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Trevor Le Lievre
Feb 7, 20221 min read
Central Hawke's Bay power consumers funded $200k dam study (Hawke's Bay Today, 26/01/2022)
The director of the Centralines board, Ian Walker is forced to defend the granting of $200K to a private company Tukituki Water Security Ltd
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Clint Deckard
Feb 7, 20221 min read
“We cannot build more rivers” (Farmers Weekly, 13/12/2021)
Secretary NZ Federation of Freshwater Anglers highlights how publicly funded irrigation schemes are degrading rivers, and privatising water
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Wise Water Use
Dec 12, 20211 min read
Mike Petersen announces Tukituki Water Security Project
Mike Petersen: "this isn't a re-run of previous water security projects". Six month's later releases report recommending Ruataniwha v.2
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