Despite soaring power prices, the Government has refused to pursue the structural reforms of the electricity sector that are urgently requ...
Showing posts with label electricity. Show all posts
Showing posts with label electricity. Show all posts
PUBLIC OWNERSHIP OF ENERGY IS THE ONLY ANSWER
T he solution to New Zealand's energy woes is to re-nationalise the energy industry. So why are none of our politicians advocating it?...
THE PROBLEM IS BIGGER THAN JUST NICK SMITH
The Minister of Housing says that people dying in winter of pneumonia is 'not new'. While Nick Smith's callousness should o...
WOOF! WOOF!
What's the price for backing David Shearer and the Labour Party again? All it takes is a dog biscuit and six dollars a week... Aft...
SAVE 'OUR' ASSETS?
Keeping electricity companies in public hands – without making them serve a significant social purpose - isn't progressive and it certai...
I'M NOT PERKY
No, you can't have affordable power - but you can have a discounted bottle of plonk. I guess that most of us, except those at the top...
POWER TO THE PEOPLE
The power industry should be re-nationalised. A few weeks ago, while I was dozing on the couch, I chanced to see John Campbell explaining on...
COLD COMFORT FROM LABOUR
I have an elderly father in his 80’s and my friends mother in her 70’s they both turn off their hot water during the week and only turn it o...
CONTACT POWER PRICE INCREASE : LABOUR DOES NOTHING AGAIN
Despite talking tough on Contact Energy's latest price increase Minister's Lianne Dalziel and David Parker are going to do....noth...
CONTACT SCREWS THE PUBLIC
As a Contact Energy customer I am angry that this company has announced it will be putting up South Island power prices by 11 percent come N...
THE GREAT MERIDIAN EXPERIMENT: IS MERIDIAN 'GUIDELINE AWARE'?
Our mystery Meridian Energy consumer took himself to the point of disconnection to see if there was any change in this new more 'sociall...
MERIDIAN CONTINUES TO DISCONNECT CONSUMERS, INCREASES PRICES, IGNORES GOVERNMENT GUIDELINES
Despite assurances from the Government that electricity companies would adhere to a new set of guidelines before disconnecting consumers, Me...
THE GREAT ELECTRICITY SWINDLE
While New Zealanders are faced with escalating power prices, Comalco gets its power at less than a third of the price the rest of us have t...
MERIDIAN ENERGY: 'A ROGUE CORPORATE'
Meridian Energy don't seem to be heeding the call to be more 'socially responsible' as the Government says all power companies ...
IT'S BUSINESS AS USUAL AT MERCURY ENERGY: PEOPLE GET THEIR POWER CUT OFF
Despite disconnecting the power of the Muliaga family and killing wife and mother Folole Muliaga, Mercury Energy recommenced the whole sordi...
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