Gas could be the trojan horse for holding everyone to ransom.

But in answer to your question, I’m not sure. I guess the big ones would have to be the three wind farms – Central Otago, Port Waikato and Makara. Those three would account for RMA consent/under construction in the wind category.

Darren, try paying your bills on time then. Jokes aside, I didn’t realise power was switched off for more than two hours to a few consumers over the last few months. I guess that’s the risk you take when opting for a cheaper power plan, though the media somehow missed the fact that anyone was having cold showers, which I find unbelievable.

Why do you blame Labour? Power generation increased a huge amount under them in the last nine years, maybe you can blame your tory mates for hyping the ‘crisis’ to a level where people had to act to be seen acting, despite having twice the reserve capacity of 1999. Somewhat ironic – you paid the price for the actions of the idiots (I’m assuming) you support!

Shameful stuff Labour

http://www.mfe.govt.nz/publications/rma/annual-survey/2005-2006/index.html

I think local govt NZ or someone has stats on the amount of RMA applications that are blocked, and it is really small, less than one percent from memory. I’ll dig out a link

Of course, this is a view of National in power, so it’s probably appropriate

DJP- yeah, but not at the same time as reducing taxes for a significant amount of what you want to borrow. I don’t think anyone minds borrowing a little (or dipping into the national surplus) during a recession to kick the economy in the pants and get some good public spending on infrastructure going, but it ought to be infrastructure that will last, (like renewable power) infrastructure that solves problems, (like pollution, unclean water, and unsustainable fuel use) and infrastructure that generates employment for New Zealanders. National’s spending ideas generally don’t meet the criteria we would expect from good public spending- probably because they’re very new to the idea of public spending as anything other than throwing away money as broad tax cuts.

Labour’s just been anti-borrowing recently because National has dragged down the standard of debate to a level where we can’t have a thorough explanation anymore lest it generate distorted headlines and the classic right-wing perceptions of “wishy-washyness” and “flip-flopping”.

You didn’t mention your data source otherwise I would have checked for myself. The main reason for raising these questions is that the Wairau Valley scheme is the the dominant hydro in column 3, and it’s definitely not going to be generating within three years. Even if there wasn’t a High Court appeal from the NIMBYs whose backyards (and front yards) it is being built on top of only the first of the five power stations can pysicaly be built within three years.

They are not going to gut EECA’s powers, if anything they seem to want to beef it up. Are you sure you are not confusing it with the EC?

Wouldn’t be much of a game if they gave you a fully functioning developed economy that’s already stretched to capacity.

You’d probably have lots of borrowed highways though, putting you into a cycle of debt that will eventually ruin your game

He has effectively banned most new hydro by saying that no hydro can be built that cannot be dismantled. It was in the renewables policy statement yesterday.

Wind at it;s absolute best is periodically at 50%. Some farms may achieve 40 over time that but it is likely to be much lower on average. In the first five months this year NZ wind farms were at 45, 31, 34, 25 and 24% capacity.

Projections said Huntly was a peaking station…And I suspect those are scenarios not projections.

MAtthew

There is some research going on as there is a perception that dry, still winters tend to coincide…