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LETTER TO LABOUR COALITION GOVERNMENT
‘CEAC – agrees with NZF policy “for heavy rail around this country”
Monday 15th June 2020.
Press Release: Citizens Environmental Advocacy Centre
Light rail is only for passengers; – and not as cost effective as heavy rail is with a multi-functional capacity, so KiwiRail must now expand heavy rail around NZ along with concentrating on electric locomotives that is the new smart transport that emit virtually no climate change carbon emissions, in line with global trends.
Regulatory agreement made by Government;
NZ is a signatory of the Paris climate change agreement since 2017; – when the ruling National Party then signed onto the ‘lowered climate change emissions target’, – promising to moving to low emissions transport motivation; – so KiwiRail’s CEO Greg Miller made fatal serious errors in his judgement last week when he announced he supported buying more troublesome and unreliable Chinese diesel locomotives – and this does not stack up.
Logic;
As to spending massive Billions of public funds only on light rail also ‘does not stack up‘ as rail needs to be multi-functional in future to take freight and passenger services when required; – and that is smart transport.
Twyford last year conceded there would be no “spades in the ground in 2020”, but said he remained confident the “multi-billion-dollar project… to transform Auckland” would get off the ground.
There are two proposals for consideration: One from the New Zealand Transport Agency and the other from NZ Infra – a joint venture by the NZ Super Fund and CDPQ.
In late May, Twyford told reporters a proposal would go before ministers “soon” following “extensive and ongoing conversations” with NZ First.
That same day, Peters told reporters light rail was “not an issue” as it was “not going to happen in the immediate term”.
“Costs have blown out massively. We’ve always been for heavy rail around this country… and light rail has been suspended,” Peters told reporters.
“I’ve made my views very clear, a long way back.”
Twyford last week told Parliament it was his intention to take a proposal to Cabinet by 19 June, the date at which the government shifts into pre-election mode.
Both Peters and Twyford refused to comment to RNZ except to say the Cabinet process was underway.
Green Party transport spokesperson and associate minister for transport, Julie Anne Genter, also declined an interview.
Genter told Stuff last week the Green Party would campaign on light rail if the coalition government was unable to get it across the line.
She said the party wanted “better public transport and rapid transit for Auckland”, and that specifically included light rail.
CEAC are supporting smart multi-purpose rail and NZF has heavy rail their preference here – “very clear, a long way back.”
Kiwi Rail; Make our rail funding the most effective, efficient, low emission climate friendly transport mode for the money spent by NZ taxpayers.
Does anyone with Labour party connections have any idea what this is about? I am not sure why Hobbs is asking for the ORC to be ECan-ed, but it seems like a bad idea!
Still, she’s on the other side from Laws & Calvert – which is usually the right (if not right-wing) place to be. Farmers’ schemes for Otago water seems to be the background, but the ODT is light on details. Wish Willis had got a couple of hundred more votes in local body elections, then maybe there’d be some gossip around the Green Otago crew.
https://www.odt.co.nz/news/dunedin/hobbs-not-prepared-give
How do these people get work permits to work in NZ and create innocent victims here while taking up our judicial and immigration resources? He was already banned in South Africa before coming to NZ to work!
Jockey banned for life over plan to harm rival and ex-partner
https://www.nzherald.co.nz/sport/news/article.cfm?c_id=4&objectid=12339923
Again, why do we encourage short term relationships in NZ, that turn harmful with our policy that is blind to social good?
Judge: Extraordinary that killer Rohit Singh maintained fiction during murder trial
https://www.nzherald.co.nz/nz/news/article.cfm?c_id=1&objectid=12254105
Dunedin doctor Venod Skantha found guilty of murder of Amber-Rose Rush
https://www.nzherald.co.nz/nz/news/article.cfm?c_id=1&objectid=12288940
Another doctor murderer
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Colin_Bouwer
West Auckland stabbing: Man remanded in custody after been charged with murder
https://www.stuff.co.nz/national/crime/114976886/west-auckland-stabbing-man-remanded-in-custody-after-been-charged-with-murder
We have too many harmful people coming to NZ, often getting into positions of power, and create victims in NZ from their crimes….
Once into NZ it seems near impossible to deport people, because their rights are more important than their victims rights.
New resident convicted of sex offending twice, won’t be deported
https://www.nzherald.co.nz/nz/news/article.cfm?c_id=1&objectid=11837608
Judge’s difficult sentencing of a former refugee who won’t stop offending
https://www.stuff.co.nz/national/crime/111480343/judges-difficult-sentencing-of-a-refugee-who-wont-stop-offending
Rapist wins case to be allowed to stay in NZ
https://www.rnz.co.nz/news/national/327784/rapist-wins-case-to-be-allowed-to-stay-in-nz
Child abuser wins right to stay in New Zealand for humanitarian reasons
https://www.stuff.co.nz/national/crime/84891031/child-abuser-wins-right-to-stay-in-new-zealand-for-humanitarian-reasons
Child abuse dad avoids deportation on humanitarian grounds to stay with family
https://www.stuff.co.nz/national/76059417/
Iain Lees-Galloway chose ‘lazy’ option granting residency to drink-driver – Simon Bridges
https://www.newshub.co.nz/home/politics/2019/10/iain-lees-galloway-chose-lazy-option-granting-residency-to-drink-driver-simon-bridges.html
Rich building boss guilty of immigration fraud after residency granted, loses court battle with Herald
https://www.nzherald.co.nz/nz/news/article.cfm?c_id=1&objectid=12171615
“How do these people get work permits to work in NZ and create innocent victims here while taking up our judicial and immigration resources?”
Quite easy @savenz. Bad immigration policy from a department which is part of one of the mega ministries, and, unfortunately various Ministers (and increasingly it seems) even a PM with a completely inadequate bullshit detector.
And they even continue to keep making it up as they go along.
Until we stop seeing immigration primarily as a business, rest assured there’s a lot more to come.
There are quite a few bloody silly assumptions, double standards and prejudices in the system that some of our senior public service seem ‘comfortable’ with – probably because it was policy based on their advice in the first place, and despite the weasel words and all the management courses and shit that might look good on a CV – they don’t actually get it.
Things such as
– High income earners naturally equate to high skills.
– People with high skills are therefore likely to be good citizens and permanent residents
– Just like the first tier beneficiary, the deserving are at the top of the list and therefore go above others in the queue.
– etc.
It’s all very neo-liberal Labour which should really have been purged of the misconceptions a long, long time ago.
But then how could that even be possible with a minister (and increasingly a PM) who has grown up knowing nothing other than a cistern, process and structure than the one that’s in place.
Those (now) senior public servants we hear from – now almost daily, are the very same ones that designed and implemented things such as the demographic spreadsheet (considered a no no and which came with a naughty naught wack over the knuckles with a wet bus ticket); or others who thought it quite OK to use Thompson and Clark (without an ‘e’) to spy on people. The same ones who managed people such as a Casson and his colleagues, and who continue to “assert” (read bully) their underlings – many who give up as decent worker-bees and move on to a less stressful, more ethical life elsewhere and not under their control freakery.
So yep – quite easy for it all to continue – and it will just as long as we have the structure we have in place, and a bureaucracy and ministers with primitive bullshit detectors, ill-advised and prepared to convince themselves that what they’re doing is somehow principled and ethical (After all – its what they became politicians for)
The saddest, but funniest thing I looked at recently was the $106k earnings criteria.
It excludes people whose skills we could do with (in terms of doing something about climate change; water; sustainABLE living; people even with pretty damn good IT skills, such as the ability to whip up a gun register with all the various interfaces in vogue; the Green Economy generally), whilst allowing someone who could earn that amount of money (legally) driving a fucking UBER 6 days-a-week, 10 hours-a-day
They’re lovely people though @ SaveNZ – just not ones in all conscience I can vote for any longer
“…………. (legally) driving a fucking UBER 6 days-a-week, 10 hours-a-day”
Oops, soz, I tell a lie.
They’d need to also drive for Ola and maybe Zoomie on the side without having many breaks, and they’d need to time things when they’re ‘surging’. Otherwise breaking the 106 is merely aspirational
This is sad to hear. https://www.rnz.co.nz/national/programmes/voices/audio/2018750420/covid-19-claims-champion-of-waikato-s-refugee-community
Ismail Diriye Gamadid RIP
The Covid-19 pandemic claimed Waikato’s much-loved and prominent refugee leader last month. Ismail Diriye Gamadid passed away in Mogadishu, Somalia on 25 May after a three-week struggle with Covid-19. He was on a humanitarian visit to flood victims in an area also affected severely by Covid-19.
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