Clive Bibby: Scrapping of Lake Onslow pump hydro project makes sense.

I am personally pleased that the Government has taken a new look at its priority list of spending on clean energy projects.

Having said that, my support is conditional on additional projects being ones that make sense and are in the best interests of the nation’s taxpayers and users of the extra energy generated.

The cost of these new projects needs to be seen as a responsible use of the country’s scarce financial resources compared to the huge waste likely to have occurred pursuing some of the last government’s ill conceived ideas.

Point of Order: Buzz from the Beehive - 6/12/23

For the record, the Beehive buzz can now be regarded as “official”

The biggest buzz we bring you from the Beehive today is that the government’s official website is up and going after being out of action for more than a week.

The latest press statement came from Education Minister Eric Stanford, who seized on the 2022 PISA results to express her confidence that Kiwi kids will do much better under the Coalition Government.