If that was the case , how come Russia hasnt invaded Belarus Former Soviet state ...check Never existed as a nation state ...check Could it be that Belarus hadnt yet become an EU/Nato acolyte
Absolutely lets abandon Karekare totally and parts of Piha. Anyway the former Waitakere city council was the easiest touch as far as site stability for house building on steeper slopes. North Shore was far more rigourous and would never allow what was ...
Theres 'smart' gas meters now also https://www.frankenergy.co.nz/help/smartgasmeters/
Clearly the Taxpayers Turnip doesnt know the difference between a public servant and a government appointee to a board. Nice to see Turnips playing national/act attack dog so that Luxon doesnt have to bite back
"Electra owns and operates the electricity lines and assets in the Kāpiti and Horowhenua districts" https://electra.co.nz/ The power companies who the customer chooses for the kWhr usage pass on the lines company charges in their bill.
AEPB became Vector , which unlike most power boards lines division wanst sold off - indeed they later bought out what used to be the former north and west WEPB Waitemata Electric Power Board which was sold as the consumers were given $2000 each worth of ...
Dont forget the Westland Council whos treatment plant was wrecked by river flooding and they awarded a rebuild contract to an Auckland cake decorator Whanganui new treatment plant was so badly designed the smell wafted across the river to some suburbs. It ...
Smart water meters work like smart power meters, Its a daily update of stored data by the hour ( or less) over the SMS cell phone network
A step in like they did with Canterbury Region, where locals are replaced with more business or farmer friendly appointees for a long term.
ROFL . So so true. These regulatory bodies them become subject to yearly 'efficiency' Treasury cuts of 2% on their administrative budgets , so that even major cases arent prosecuted or investigated. As a point even the 3 waters large entities were still ...
Most of our work was geotechnical and a portion was in the Waitakeres. I used to say to people privately back then that if you live there start thinking of moving on. if a cyclone hits Auckland the area is so vulnerable ( especially those on town water and...
Yes. Theres an existing pond -wetland behind the top of the dunes and there is a overflow point from that pond towards the beach. It goes over the dunes via a saddle that is Neil Finns place and the council GIS shows that . often with stories about ...
This was Nationals idea of disaster politicking ' Prime Minister John Key says the Government is willing to pay for an operation to recover the remains of 29 miners from the Pike River mine if it is credible and safe link As we all know at the time , he ...
Has anybody else noticed the media obsession with the flood issues for the elites or the upper middle class in their urban fringe lifetsyle blocks ? 'The musician’s four-bedroom $3.3 million dollar property saw water rushing through it before draining down...
Did a google search but couldnt find it- too many ads promotions for kiwisaver and the like. MSD seems to have benefit numbers more easily found than superannuatants
We have our own massive hydro station that could be on standby. Wave Comalco goodbye . The state buys Manapouri and its generation used exclusively for that dry year- winter peak generation problem we have. ( perhaps a small flow use to keep the station ...
All our big banks are Australian owned , why havent they just moved back home then. The reason is they factor in their costs of business and make their money from there. Same goes for the banking segments they are active in. Residential mortgages are ...
So the increase in gross government debt under National from $20 bill to $90 bill in 2017 fueled an increase in government spending over and above income and resulted in inflation.? Every other OECD country has the same inflation, some much higher ( even ...
Muldoon used to force the banks and life insurance companies to invest in government bonds at govt decided interest rates . I think it was a longstanding policy but he increased the government stock ratio even higher. Some background here They didnt take ...
Whats the increase in Government revenues in that 2017-2022 ? The 2022 yr is a bit of outlier as it covered the 2021-23 covid expenditure, depending if you have cherry picked the meaning of 'core' This says 2022 total revenue was $142 bill while in 2017 it...
'Their' was RBNZ. Thanks for the info on NZ Clear which seems to be for high value transactions only. 'Bills bonds and equities'. There s a xlx file of the entities https://www.rbnz.govt.nz/payments-and-settlement-systems/nzclear I was thinking the run of ...
The street in Taradale we lived in now has double the density from infill housing. A few doors away was a small orchard, thats now housing. The vineyards that was once McDonalds now Church Rd have mostly moved further out The Te Awa subdivision is much ...
The EQC cap is only a floor after which the private insurance kicks in ( what you must have to get EQC anyway ) So your house or flat that is worth double -triple that in Auckland is covered up to the level you have as the rebuild value is these days ...
Obviously the newer subdivision Te Awa was my focus, but seems the same approach was used in above area from 70s and 80?. Streets and front and back yards flood but house floor levels arent supposed to. For many reasons this approach wasnt used at all in ...
So your vague ideas from living there as a kid on land development are fine but someone who did it for a living and can give information about how the house floor levels are worked out to be above a possible flood is smeared with an insult.? These would be...
All of Napier apart from small hill suburbs ( landslide risk) is on uplifted land. So thats 50k people that already live on it The railway line was the edge of the original shingle bank and ground just below Bluff Hill. Most your claims are wrong too as ...
The personal insult came from Sanctuary was defamatory ' to satisfy an anally retentive desire to do nothing about climate change is idiotic.' Try to read what was actually said first before hoping in.
You could well be right . But Im wondering about what Treasury calls 'other borrowing' that almost doubles it again The problem with using nett debt I have noticed is that as it falls ( during the Key years the stock market boom for NZSF and ACC) many ...
Westpac is/was the governments banker and clears the payments that you are thinking of. This their function managing inflation to keep prices stable while supporting maximum, sustainable employment. regulating banks, insurers and finance companies. ...
Assume good faith. They just corrected an simple error , a typo almost. Simon should have said the [outstanding] loans are an asset.
You arent the only one who was born ( Wairoa) and grew up in ( Taradale) hawkes Bay You clearly have no civil engineering expertise, just another motor mouth who doesnt have expertise to look at photos and work out what has happened. Who said we dont have ...
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