Gren Christie does some myth-busting about 'community' trust
Christie: "Mr Petersen is essentially arguing that we need to buy an expensive water tank when the biggest problem is a broken tap".
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Wise Water Use
Nov 123 min read
BREAKING!! Letters to Editor challenge dam promoter's arguments
Dam promoter's attempt to frame Ruataniwha Dam v.2 as "nothing like Ruataniwha v.1" falls flat - again!
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Wise Water Use
Nov 81 min read
Letters to the Editor - Hawke's Bay Today
Published in HB Today 5th November 2024 by Lead Advocates for Wise Water Use, Gren Christie and Paul Bailey.
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Wise Water Use
Oct 283 min read
Press Release: Wise Water Use HB Calls for Community Presence at Central Hawke's Bay District Council Meeting
Wise Water Use refutes Council’s allegation that Central Hawkes Bay has a water crisis.
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Wise Water Use
Oct 261 min read
Coming to a letterbox near you...
Our Wise Water Use advocates have kindly volunteered their long weekend time to get the word out there.
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Wise Water Use
Oct 202 min read
Why You Should Have Your Say: Demand Transparency and Full Consultation
Wise Water Use HB is asking ratepayers to ask questions online and make your voices heard.
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Wise Water Use
Oct 172 min read
A Partial Win, But the Fight for Full Public Consultation Continues – Your Voice Matters!
There are still too many unanswered questions. We must keep up the pressure to ensure the community’s voice is truly heard.
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Wise Water Use
Oct 162 min read
Wise Water Use HB Denied Speaking Rights on Ruataniwha Dam Trust
Wise Water Use HB Denied Speaking Rights on Ruataniwha Dam Trust – Calls For Full Public Consultation
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Wise Water Use
Sep 1, 20221 min read
HB Regional Council votes 5-4 to defer $383K consent charges for Ruataniwha dam
Have you paid your rates? Doesn’t matter – ask HBRC for a deferral! Listen to RNZ’s Tom Kitchin, who was at the meeting.
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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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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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Wise Water Use
Mar 17, 20221 min read
WISE WATER USE billboards – coming to a location near you soon!
Like the work WISE WATER USE are doing? Have a high-profile site for a billboard? Contact us now if you would like to sponsor a billboard
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Wise Water Use
Mar 11, 20221 min read
David Hamilton, local farmer of 65 years, laments the death of Kahahakuri Stream
Kahahakuri Stream was once “a thriving creek with abundant fishlife” – demise due to nitrogen fertiliser and over-allocation for irrigation.
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Wise Water Use
Mar 8, 20223 min read
Barrie Ridler promotes HB 'Centre of Excellence' to teach sustainable dryland farming
Agricultural consultant Barrie Ridler says 'dryland farming systems are low cost, yet productive", "Bay could become wonderful environment".
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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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Wise Water Use
Feb 8, 20222 min read
CHB Water Soon to Boil (BayBuzz 17/12/2021)
Nine consent applications for additional groundwater takes totalling 15 million cubes from the Ruataniwha Aquifer
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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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