Wednesday, 05 February 2014 14:59

Power games

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YOUR CANINE crusader thinks it’s great that Transpower has finally seen sense and, at the eleventh hour, withdrawn its Environment Court appeal over Waimate District Council and local farmer opposition to wider buffer zones under power lines.

But the Hound reckons Federated Farmers would do well to take the grid operator’s assurances – that the deal sets a precedent – with a large pinch of salt. Your old mate hears Transpower made a hash of compulsory pre-court mediation meetings. That failure would no doubt have weighed against it had the hearing gone ahead. 

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