PEOPLE PAY TWICE FOR POWER

We have been watching the expansion of the -DOC gets paid to back off grizzling about the Lammamoor Wind Farm by Meridian storyC -today . DOC gets paid $175k by an SOE ( government run company) and gets a hush clause in the agreement for backing off objecting to the development. And apparently its not the only time DOC got paid for its silence.

So here's the kicker - the Nelson Evening Mail reports this afternoon that Meridian is putting up power bills which will cost consumers about $10 bucks extra on their bills a month. No bloody wonder if they have to keep forking out kickback money to DOC to get projects up and running.


UPDATE : Bugger me Barnsley Bill has just alerted us to the fact that Trust power was flinging the kickbacks around as well. What it really shows is how the RMA process promotes corruption.
and UPDATING THE UPDATE - ALF Grumble has done some serious research into this issue. ( Obviously Monday must be an AFD - Alcohol Free Day. ) as his post on this issue here is big and substantive - well worth a look see.

Time for a sort out, Time for some transparency and time for some pragmatism.

QUEEN BEE ON THE PINOT?

WOW , the old girl must have been out on the tiles last night and it appears from the quality of the posts on the Hive Queen Bee had a couple of glasses of Wycroft Pinot Noir too many.

She wants us to boycott TV3 because they have broadcast another one of the " secret " tapes that was made at the National Party conference.

Now poor old QB isn't a journalist and doesn't realise that todays independent media like TV3 is only interested in entertainment. And we think it is very entertaining TV. Duncan Garner is the best eye candy of any of the TV political presenters.

And Keeping Stock has fallen for Queen Bees drunken musings as well


We don't have a problem that TV3 aired another of the tapes because we know that TV3 , to ensure fairness and balance, will publish the tapes that the VRWC has "obtained " over the last month or so.

However we are prepared to sell them to the highest bidder, with money going to the Breast Cancer Foundation because QB has made such a tit of herself.

Please email bustedblonde@gmail.com if you would like to buy them.