Minister fast-tracks NZ's biggest hydro project Lake Onslow
newsroom.co.nz
High-powered private consortium welcomes referral: 'In the context of energy security, the sooner this project gets built the better'. Jill Herron reports.

I find it strange that this is all of a sudden back, and fast tracked at that just after the recent news about the data centre in Southland.

  • AWOL_muppet@lemmy.nz
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    1 month ago

    I’m not sue what to make of all this but when I see quotes like:

    Turner says: “If we had to go through a normal consenting process, they just take so long, they’re so expensive, a project like this would really struggle.”

    I can’t help but think of my teenagers whining when they don’t want to do a chore properly.

    We have rules and processes for good reasons, it’s frustrating when it seems to be ‘cool’ to throw all this away because it’s inconvenient