Weather watch: South Island Braces for Trouble - Weather forecasts for the weekend are a big concern for Civil defence authorities in the South Island. With many Canterbury communities still reeling from Monday's snow storm, concerns are that more communities will be caught unawares. Canterbury's Civil Defence Emergency Planner, Jon Mitchell, says people should stock up in time. See... Weather forecasts for the weekend a concern ALSO:
Power Woes: Labour-Led Govt Says Power Failures All Nats Fault! - The Labour-led government has attacked National saying it has significantly boosted spending on the transmission grid and taken positive steps to correct the mess created by National's ideologically driven free-market approach. Acting Energy Minister Trevor Mallard said today: "Under the last National government, investment in the national grid fell as low as just $52 million per year. National's failed free-market approach resulted in massive under-investment in the national grid and created many of the problems we are still addressing today." See... Investment in the grid boosted significantly ALSO:
An image of the snowbound South Island taken from NASA's Modis Satellite. The satellite happened to pass over New Zealand to capture much of the South Island under snow. Thousands of South Islanders throughout the Otago, McKenzie Country and Canterbury regions remain without electricity and telecommunications today. The crisis is due to the Big Freezy weather-Bomb that hit the Mainland this week. Electricity woes will continue through to the weekend. See... Scoop Image: Southern Snow From Outer Space ALSO:
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Power Woes: Labour-Led Govt Says Power Failures All Nats Fault! - The Labour-led government has attacked National saying it has significantly boosted spending on the transmission grid and taken positive steps to correct the mess created by National's ideologically driven free-market approach. Acting Energy Minister Trevor Mallard said today: "Under the last National government, investment in the national grid fell as low as just $52 million per year. National's failed free-market approach resulted in massive under-investment in the national grid and created many of the problems we are still addressing today." See... Investment in the grid boosted significantly
An image of the snowbound South Island taken from NASA's Modis Satellite. The satellite happened to pass over New Zealand to capture much of the South Island under snow. Thousands of South Islanders throughout the Otago, McKenzie Country and Canterbury regions remain without electricity and telecommunications today. The crisis is due to the Big Freezy weather-Bomb that hit the Mainland this week. Electricity woes will continue through to the weekend. See... Scoop Image: Southern Snow From Outer Space
Today's massive power
failure in Auckland and Hamilton shows just how fragile New
Zealand's transmission system has become, says National's
Energy spokesman Nick Smith. See... Power
failure highlights grid's fragility
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