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Dam Project Struggling to Hold Water?
DAM PROJECT STRUGGLING TO HOLD
WATER
By Tom Belford, on 23
April, 2016
That’s the title of Friday’s editorial in the NZ Herald commenting on the proposed Ruataniwha dam.
Here’s the concluding
paragraph …
“Irrigation projects, properly designed
and funded by those who benefit from them, play a vital role
in the New Zealand economy. Schemes which need rules bent to
get them over the line and financial risks shifted to those
who derive little if any benefit should have to clear a very
high bar. The longer the Ruataniwha project takes to tick
all the boxes, then the case for it proceeding becomes
harder to sustain.”
ends