CV are you feeling OK?
Hi Jim, I don't know why you would pick on a guy like Patrick Strange or even Doug Hefferenan for that matter. These guys aren't the ones taking the piss. For outrageous piss taking you need to pick on guys like Captian Fuckall. See: http://www.stuff.co.nz...
Thanks for the query John Dalley, I doubt you are really as interested in Transpower's work as you are in one liners for the Standard but seeing as you ask, the Transpower 2011 annual report notes: "Strengthening the grid Our major grid investment ...
Akldnut you could do us all a favour by calling Mercury, asking that question and letting us know what they say. "You can check and manage your Mercury Energy account online or ring us on 0800 10 18 10" My pick is they focus on your precise consumption ...
Nald I suggest you engage your brain before typing "submit comment" too.
Patrick Strange joined Transpower in 2007. The underinvestment goes much further back than that and responsibility lies at the feet of board's past. . The immediate previous CEO Ralph Craven tried to get investment in the main grid going but faced strong ...
Hi CV You missed it. Let me be more clear. Project Hayes was ridiculously expensive compared with many other potential projects in NZ. If Meridian had gone ahead with it taxpayers would have been worse off. Under a minority sale scenario the value of the ...
Hi Mickey, Sorry to have missed your discussion thread on Meridian's decision to abandon Project Hayes but here is a late contribution. The problem the Environment Court found with Project Hayes under the RMA was that Meridian overstated the benefits and ...
... you really write: "RWNJs like lulu think that NZ being ripped...
Mickey, Thank you for a considered response. This is much better than CV’s mindless flailing attacks on people who make points that might not suit his view rather than coherent argument on point. I follow your logic and I agree your points. However you ...
Jum, I am not familiar with the rules and restrictions on Kiwisaver fund managers so to answer your question I would have to speak from a point of ignorance. (Although that doesn’t stop some people here.) As I understand it a foreign owned investor manager...
I am happy to concede that I was not precise on some points of governance. When it comes to a vote, the 51% owner has control. That includes appointment of directors. When it comes to a board resolution the 51% doesn’t have full control unless it forces a ...
CV you seem to be a little overexcited today: As long as Government has 51% ownership they have control. Not limited control; actual control. Your reference to 49% foreign ownership is misleading. 49% is to be sold. I agree some of that may fall to foreign...
Many thanks, Lulu
It is not my question that needs answering and I can see CV everywhere on every thread so fair point. However, I made a simple request and I will make it again because despite several responses he hasn't addressed it. Nick K asked an interesting question. ...
To CV: I guess you don't feel the need to answer the question. Flippant and vacuous one liners are the order of the day for you. Shame. I thought you might have had a considered view. On something. Anything. [lprent: It could also have been something as ...
To Colonial Viper I don’t necessarily dispute your view on the relationship between some of the 49% of SOEs sold off to foreign shareholders and funding for our schools and hospitals. However that still doesn’t address Nick K’s question. On the basis of my...
To CV "Did you not do business 101? The one which says maximise your return on capital for your private shareholders?" This is your explanation of why power prices will go up under the partial (49%) sale of the SOEs in response to Nick K’s question. A ...
John Key attended Aorangi School, then Burnside High School, and earned a Bachelor of Commerce degree in accounting from the University of Canterbury in 1981.[3][5] He has attended management studies courses at Harvard University.[6] Before politics Key's ...
Now we are talking. Items 3, 4 and 5 involve consumers, their comfort and their choices. It doesn't involve any wanky in house displays expecting them to do something in real time. Aaah. Oh but wait... every part of the industry except EECA benefit from ...
If your proposition is that it should not be inevitable because etc etc I agree. However the nature of the commercial and regulatory arrangements we have plus our love of convenience combined with the link between electricity demand and economic growth ...
Thanks for your reply Draco T. I agree with your observation about heat pumps but BRANZ predict that installation of heat pumps will encourage whole of house heating rather than individual room heating + substitution of other forms of heating + the fact ...
Hey Colonial Viper, a question for you. After you have allowed for regular growth in electricity demand, greater domestic demand from heat pumps and stuff like that plus electric cars what fuel will be used to generate the extra electricity needed to ...
If my comment wasn’t worth following up why did you follow up? I apologise and withdraw reference to Hager spying. You are right. He didn’t have to. I was simply commenting in response to Colonial Viper’s comment that using information from "the other side...
Er.. this isn't stooping. Information that has hurt Labour has either been made publicly available by virtue of Labour’s slack security or is provided voluntarily to the bloggers by traitorous Labour insiders. This isn't hacking or Nicky Hager style spying...
Aww thank you Colonial Viper, I though Draco was one of us. If I had realised he was the next Gandhi and Martin Luther King I wouldn’t have asked the question. I am beginning to wish I hadn’t raised this. Last thought, A couple of comments have been ...
Jeez Draco T. What would we get if no one complied with authority? Isn't our whole civilisation based on forming and reforming order? Hey Draco, answer me a question, have you got a job?
Fair and interesting point Puddleglum. Do we want our children to be known as effective leaders or known for civil disobedience? I think leaders in their field can achieve more for them and their nation. (absent fundamental causes like the civil rights ...
Hi Jum, I didn't mention Key. Or Clark. Or any other PM or any ideology. And I didn't use capital letters. I think you need to have a little lie down.
Thank you Iamupnorth. You have shown up ianmac and jum and demonstrated my point well. Go well and good luck. As far as Marlene is concerned, she is not braver than you, she is just plain stupid. Those other two are merely the propagandists Marlene ...
As a parent of school age children I am uncomfortable with an individual principal breaking their rules of employment and the protocols of being in the public service. My children are taught to work hard, strive for excellence (within capability), comply ...
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