Not a Typo: Chinese Company Pays NZ$526 for 146 Million Litres of Water a Year… In a Drought Zone
April 27th, 2016I like to think of NZ as a sort of remote, limited bandwidth version of a Mr. Lee’s Greater Hong Kong franchise:
Via: Radio NZ:
A veritable drop in the ocean.
No, we’re talking about fresh water.
Forget it, Nick. This is Chinatown.
Pardon?
Nothing.
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I hope the people of NZ are feeling as angry about this as I am.
I’ve been away for so long. Is this primarily the work of the National Party, or is it some co-operative venture between the parties, both increasingly infected with a dark ideological slime?
Let me put it this way: I know someone who is fighting one of these operations and this person would be able to write a book about corruption at the local council level.
Well, I hope they do write a book…or forward their info to someone who can do something with it.
It has been my experience that there are usually only a few people taking on the entrenched, highly-paid, corrupt career bureaucrats in situations like this, where the good ole’ boys are (behind closed doors so hardly anyone can easily find out about it until it’s too late) handing out water permits to other good ole’ boys, which they then can onsell to foreigners or hedge funds. Most people are, reasonably, busy working and raising families and trusting their local governments to do right by them. Pfffft! Governments do what they always do – take care of themselves and work on gaining ever more power over the rest of us peons.
So the activists that I know or have heard about are almost all retired and spending their own money to fight the beast. These old ones know what kind of world is being handed to their children and grandchildren — a world owned by multi-national corporations controlled by psychopathic oligarchs. Kiwis, as well as many others around the world, may soon be having their domestic water taps metered and the charges automatically deducted from their bank accounts to be sent off to Mr. Lee’s Greater Hong Kong, or Muhammad’s Marvelous Mini-Mecca.
The most dangerous volunteer job in the world? Environmental activist.