The tabs did accumulate. A couple of worthies.
- There will be no bailouts of local councils that neglected their pipes. Good.
- Me, over in Newsroom, reminding everyone of the mess Canada made by trying to turn Facebook into a media funding entity. It's now sounding like National, who had been very sceptical about the proposal during the election campaign, are warming to the darned thing. Pretty disappointing if so.
- Like I told y'all last year, it was always pretty obvious what National's plan for council water reform would be. It would be based on Castalia's work with Communities for Local Democracy. Like they said it would be.
- Canada's Conservative Party pandering to loonies on the right.
- Alison Andrew's talk at the Waikato Economics Forum was excellent. She's CE of Transpower. Transpower just works in ways that council water just doesn't. Consider the incentives both face. Transpower is self-funding through charges on users of its transmission lines, under standard utilities regulation that allows them a return on their capital. Council water, well, no. But that doesn't meant there aren't problems for Transpower. I hope that the proposed fast-track consenting solves some of this mess.
No comments:
Post a Comment