Press release: John Adams, Paul Stichbury

Complaint lodged with SFO over Turitea wind farm

Mighty River Power is in possession of an invalid and illegal consent for the Turitea wind farm.

The Turitea Board of Inquiry was chaired by former Environment Judge Shonagh Kenderdine. She was a judge until her warrant was permanently and irrevocably withdrawn on 6th August 2010. From that date Kenderdine was no longer a judge.

All Boards of Inquiry are required to have a judge with a judicial warrant as chair, as the decision made is equivalent to that of a court of law. A Board of Inquiry’s final decision is binding and can only be challenged on a point of law.

The Turitea Final Decision was issued on 6th September 2011.

During the intervening period of one year and one month between 6th August 2010 and 6th September 2011, without having any judicial authority whatsoever, Kenderdine falsely signed off as “Environment Judge” on both the Draft Decision and the Final Decision authorizing the wind farm consent.

A complaint has been lodged with the Serious Fraud Office.

Documentation relating to this and other very serious related matters can be accessed here.

http://turiteadocuments.wordpress.com/turitea-wind-farm-documents/

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Gordon Campbell: On Failures Of Care For Those With Mental Disabilities

Hard to imagine a more disturbing insight into the treatment of the vulnerable than the Health Ministry report on Te Roopu Taurima o Manukau. The Ministry has found that the country’s only kaupapa Maori intellectual disability residential care provider has been “seriously dysfunctional.”

The ministry says the business has failed to recruit and retain quality staff – and says the kaimahi (caregivers) that have been employed are seriously unsuitable for the job, lacking basic knowledge. But Te Roopu Taurima o Manukau doesn’t get all the blame. The report says there’s a significant gap under disability laws to ensure there’s oversight by qualified clinical professionals. More>>