Taxpayers’ Union manipulations, 3 Waters hysteria and Wellington downing in French Privatisation Sh*t – welcome to NuZilind

Take a long hard look – this is Old Zealand, a broken privatization experiment drowning our own Capital in shit.

The French must be laughing.

AI Bryce has done the best examination alongside Andrea Vance at how broken NZ is thanks to privatisation experiments that have utterly failed…

…the writing on the wall from this failed privatisation experiment has been obvious for years now…

The Moa Point plant has been non-compliant with its resource consent conditions for almost every month since January 2024. Wellington Water Committee papers from December show the facility passed compliance checks in only two months out of 24. Issues included unconsented discharges, odour problems, and multiple faecal coliform exceedances. Of the four Veolia-run plants in the region, Moa Point was the only one that never achieved a single “green” rating in that period.

This was not a secret. The warnings were documented, reported, and ignored.

A 2021 review commissioned by Wellington Water itself painted a damning picture of the plants’ operations. It found “understaffed plants, inexperienced operators and a lack of executive oversight, leaving frontline teams to deal with complex process failures on their own.” The same review found that the contractor operating the plants, Veolia, “failed to carry out basic asset management, including regular maintenance.”

Equipment was described as “obsolete and outdated and prone to failure.” Spare parts were hard to source, with long delivery times. There was “no clear responsibility for monitoring critical equipment or leading renewal programmes.”

A follow-up 2023 report from engineering firm Stantec focused specifically on Moa Point and warned that the plant was “highly exposed” during upgrade work that reduced its capacity. The report predicted increased bypass events where partially treated or untreated wastewater would be discharged into the ocean.

Vance noted the irony: “To layer irony onto irony, the plant meant to treat wastewater became a giant sewage geyser in the middle of an upgrade.”

The catastrophe happened while they were supposedly fixing the problems.

Wellington Water Committee chair Ros Connelly was blunt about what this represents: “the chickens coming home to roost after decades of underinvestment in water infrastructure.”

 

….just like the IT contracts with lowest cost contractors, the French company Veolia are laughing all the way to the bank while we cheap arse it again…

 

…all that institutional engineering knowledge and management have been sacrificed to give far away corporations responsibility that they don’t give a shit about.

How fitting for our Capital to drown in shit.

Look at how bad broken NZ is operating…

…here’s the icing on this shit cake – we did it to ourselves.

Labour’s 3 Waters was created to deal with this enormous infrastructure problem, while acknowledging Māori interests in water.

We allowed Dark Ag money to seep into the Taxpayers’ Union stable of clients to convince you all that ‘da Maaaaares is stealing da water’ and National, ACT and NZF played along.

3 waters which would have lowered the costs you are all now facing in your rates was destroyed by redneck crackers and now redneck crackers are drowning in shit.

Oh the irony you stupid silly sleepy Hobbits.

Your petty bigotry has been manipulated for the interests of the corporations and polluters and they are laughing all the way to the bank.

Now drown in more shit.