Since the inception of the "Local Water Done Well" reforms, I have always questioned what the end game is.
Forgive my scepticism, but anything involving water reform now tends to raise the hackles. After years of "improving water quality", we’ve seen millions, possibly billions, flow steadily into consultants, strategies, delivery plans, reform programmes, governance models, transition frameworks, and then revised versions of all of the above. None of this expenditure has reached our pipes, plants, or reservoirs.
Behind all this ,IWI are always hovering, like vultures over a carcass.
The "Local Water Done Well" legislation is very much a hangover from Mahuta's 3waters scam but without all the IWI constituted bureaucratic layers - no overt asset grab this time, something a bit more subtle. The The Department of Internal Affairs (DIA) just impose a "new" framework where in-house is deemed to be inadequate and the only "financially sustainable path" is the formation of a Council-Controlled Organization (CCO). The DIA, facilitated by their lead shill Marlon Bridge (who also provided consultation for the original scam) have maneuvered Councils into a position to form these entities , where they have "limited" control and we pay the bills and have NO say.
There wouldn't be a Council in the country that doesn't have a "partnership" with local IWI, it will be in the The Long-Term Plan (LTP), it's all BS - lines like "Ngai Tahu hold mana whenua status over the district" and/or "Council shall provide opportunities for mana whenua to engage in the development of key policies and plans" - NZers should be rejecting this crap!
Ngai Tahu's claim for fresh water has yet to be settled - what are the Courts waiting for - a new meaning for "taonga" or is it pending the formation of CCO's - my money is on the latter.
We now find that IWI involvement has blossomed into a co-governed “Partners’ Committee” that sits above the water entity boards - who would have guessed?
It has never been about water quality it has always been about control and control brings it's own financial rewards.
Source: Facebook
The "Local Water Done Well" legislation is very much a hangover from Mahuta's 3waters scam but without all the IWI constituted bureaucratic layers - no overt asset grab this time, something a bit more subtle. The The Department of Internal Affairs (DIA) just impose a "new" framework where in-house is deemed to be inadequate and the only "financially sustainable path" is the formation of a Council-Controlled Organization (CCO). The DIA, facilitated by their lead shill Marlon Bridge (who also provided consultation for the original scam) have maneuvered Councils into a position to form these entities , where they have "limited" control and we pay the bills and have NO say.
There wouldn't be a Council in the country that doesn't have a "partnership" with local IWI, it will be in the The Long-Term Plan (LTP), it's all BS - lines like "Ngai Tahu hold mana whenua status over the district" and/or "Council shall provide opportunities for mana whenua to engage in the development of key policies and plans" - NZers should be rejecting this crap!
Ngai Tahu's claim for fresh water has yet to be settled - what are the Courts waiting for - a new meaning for "taonga" or is it pending the formation of CCO's - my money is on the latter.
We now find that IWI involvement has blossomed into a co-governed “Partners’ Committee” that sits above the water entity boards - who would have guessed?
It has never been about water quality it has always been about control and control brings it's own financial rewards.
Source: Facebook
6 comments:
All about control and money. You don't say!
This is a world wide trend. Pierre Poilievre explains it well in a recent video. Climate change, UNDRIP, UN medical directives like covid are in his view a total scam. According to him, the aim is to ensure a very few "elite" people have total control over the lives of the ordinary people and the workers.
In New Zealand, this has taken the form of Maorification. Other countries like the UK and Canada have totally unsustainable immigration numbers, People are arriving from countries with no discernible, similar societal characteristics . There is a plan behind all this to introduce a new world order and we are just one small part.
Janine - the rest of the world does not allow permit, or encourage an ethnic group take over public facilities on the pretence of recently created myths.
This is another National Govt travesty, within asking their own party members, or the general public, and total reversal of their election mandate.
Never to be trusted again.
Again, it's mostly attributable to Luxon's personal views.
So Water Done Well is actually water sold up the river with National and DIA up to their armpits in collusion with the iwi chairs to make sure 3 Waters lives on in spite of all protestations to the contrary. Yes Water is well done for sure.
To all of the above good people commenting wisely : All remarks are valid... but, no protest from the majority - except a some accurate criticisms. Are they pinning their hopes on the election? Even if the Right prevails again, this time there will be fractious protest from the Left and radical Maori . The moment for this phase has arrived.
Anonymous 7.17. You appear to have missed the whole point of my comment. In different countries, different agendas are at play. In New Zealand we are heading down the UNDRIP track. In the UK disruption is being achieved through other means.As are parts of Europe. In Canada, the Native Canadians are "reasserting legal rights to water". This is a worldwide issue.
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