Hawke’s Bay

It isn’t just dairy farmers that pour shit into rivers. Councils are doing it too.

This has happened for years all over the country, and councils have failed to take action. Usually they put off fixing sewerage schemes so the next council has to raise rates to fund a scheme, and try all sorts of weasel clauses to get out of stopping pouring shit into rivers.

I met some people in Hawkes Bay who have been trying to get the Central Hawkes Bay District Council to stop pouring shit in to the Tukituki and Waipawa rivers since 2004. In 2008 they thought they had an Environment Court ruling and some resource consents that told them they could only pour shit into rivers until September 30th, 2014.

Now they are claiming to ratepayers they have another ten years in their latest newsletter. They don’t. They have to obey the resource consents unless they get approval from the private citizens who litigated against them to get the final date. The chances of the private citizens agreeing to a change apparently is nil, but expect the council to weasel out if they can.

If you don’t think it is good enough to pour shit into rivers you can tell the CHB council by submitting to their draft Long Term Plan.

Tell them you expect them to adhere by the following consents:

Waipukarau Discharge DP030231Wa & DP030859Aa
Waipawa Discharge DP030232Wa & DP030860Aa

You can see where the shit goes into the Tukituki from the settling ponds in the picture below.

The Waipawa has shit poured into it here:

Phil Goff is in serious trouble…he can’t fill a phone box.

Things weren’t looking bright for Phil Goff as he took Labour’s campaign to Hawkes Bay today – the Labour leader has problems with his potential coalition partners.

Winston Peters has ruled him out, and the Greens are now openly out to steal his votes.

Mr Goff was out to attract voters young and old today, following a kindergarten visit with a Grey Power meeting.

Thirty-one people turned up to see him speak at the Hastings meeting, summing up the problem for Mr Goff – Labour has fired most of its policy shots and spent its money for its promises, but halls are still half-empty just 17 days before the election.

Mr Peters recently drew 300 people at the same venue, but while voters might be keen almost every party has ruled him out – except for Mr Goff.

Stuart Nash has already told us that his roots are firmly in the Hawke’s Bay, a huge sigh of relief for husbands nationwide.

However a quick read down his About page shows us one of two things. Either he is studying on the taxpayers tit while being a scum List MP or that his website is nothing but a lazy effort of cut and paste from his rather skinny CV.

Stuart Nash - The Mangrove - Studying on the taxpayer or lazy cut and paste job?

I have also taken the liberty of adding a timer to the right sidebar to see how long it take The Mangrove to change his About page to reflect the truth.

Sometimes politicians don’t engage their brain before committing words to the interwebs. Most of the time some politicians are engaging their little brain. In this case, once again, it is the Mangrove, Stuart Nash. Looks like Little Stuie was engaged on this effort, freudian slips and all.

This will be a huge relief for all the husbands of attractive women the nation over, except for those in the Hawke’s Bay, to know now that The Mangrove’s roots are firmly only in the Hawke’s Bay. One thing is for sure though when a mistress becomes a wife, a position becomes vacant.

Perhaps readers might like to help The Mangrove re-write that sentence more appropriately.

Craig Foss has got himself a new ute. Well if you call such a soft vehicle a ute at all. It’s the sort of thing Charles Chauvel would drive.

Shortly after he got it Stuart “The Mangrove” Nash was seen climbing all over the back of it when the whinging bikers were in town. I hear he wants to borrow it for the following features:

Wellside – with sports bar, lockable roller shutter, bedliner with 12V power socket, and internal tie downs.

Rooting in the back of the ute is a time honoured Hawkes Bay tradition. Still I suppose it is better than converting the local gravestone makers office into a huge billboard to scare young kids and elderly passersby.

If you are going to use social media to “connect” to people then best to use it especially when your own supporters are trying to communicate with you. Len Brown, likes to think he is all hip and the “Young Thang” about town and has a Twitter account. Conor Roberts, his Labour Party flunky, though must have been up to his eyeballs with other more pressing work to run Len Brown’s Twitter account for him and so copped a shellacking from Hamish Keith.

Meanwhile the word around town is that Len Brown has taken a rappers name. T Pain, (Ches)T Pain.

Twitter Message from Hamish Keith to Len Brown

Nielson, Taylor & Clark: Govt should go with emissions trading scheme – The new Government’s decision to put the emissions trading scheme on hold pending a review came as a bolt from the blue. Stakeholders had been led to expect that there would be some changes to the ETS but the proposal to pass legislation… [NZ Herald Politics]

Labour’s stooges are carping on endlessly about the Emmissions Trading Scheme and the moratorium that has been placed on it by National until a select committee can review the science.

these folk are in “result denial” and they still think they are relevant. Sadly for them their access to patsy ministers has been cut off and that is the real reason they are acting like a buch of headless chooks.

As a public service people should direct them to this website so they can digest, slowly, the clearly unpalatable news of the demise of the corrupt and crooked Labour First government.

While we are at it we should similarly point Jeanette to the same page. She seems to think Kiwi’s care more than about 7% about the environment. Her post on Frog Blog is nothing more than a rant and cry.

Judith gives us an insight into her extremely busy life as a Minister in the Labour First government.

Ms Tizard said she had felt the power of addiction herself when she found herself playing card games on her computer until 1am at nights.

“Having taken the card games off my computer, I have some understanding of what people are up against,” she said.”

It is time to sling this useless slapper out on her big fat arse.

Spin doctors in firing line – The number of government communications staff has ballooned by 114 per cent in the past six years – sparking huge salary increases. Figures released by National MP Gerry Brownlee show there were 510 staff and contributors on July… [NZ Herald Politics]

Gerry Brownlee has released figures that show that the Labour First government has more spin than an Indian Cricket team.

Sharpen the axes gents, and start chopping here I think.

Meanwhile, Is it a true that a large contract for shredding is being being let at the moment in Wellington?