Vehicle insurance
In the UK, Australia and the United States third party vehicle insurance is compulsory. If you are stopped by police in the UK they may ask to see your certificate of third party insurance (CTPVI). Every time you relicense your vehicle you have to show evidence that you have third party cover.
The premium for third party cover is set by your insurance company and depends on your driving record. Anything that increases your risk of an accident such as demerit points can increase your premium. This includes driving offences such as speeding or using a handheld cell phone. A drink-driving offence results in a massive increase in compulsory premium; a huge incentive not to drink and drive. Demerit points must be declared on your licence when applying for CTPVI. In New Zealand, demerit points for many drivers are meaningless until they result in disqualification. But how would it be if ANY demerit points declared to your insurance company increased your annual premium?
Would CTPVI be a valuable weapon for traffic police?
CTPVI will result in improved driving attitude and behaviour because it will pay financially to be a safe driver.
The National government has so far resisted CTPVI. I hope that whoever forms the Government after September 23 will have a different attitude to road safety. the atmosphere, including volatile forms of arsenic, there seems to a contradiction when he also declared . . . ‘‘We have an obligation to our staff working at the site to make sure that they are safe, and we are a Maori organisation, so we have cultural reasons why we don’t want to be polluting the land, water and air’’.
If Waste Transformation, as a Maori consortium, were true to their beliefs, surely, even the slightest chance of polluting the environment, and therefore life, people and their quality of life, they would not be applying for resource consent. After all, nuclear power stations were touted as safe. Chernobyl, Fukushima?
People will be living a few hundred metres from the proposed plant and recreating in the Wither Hills Farm Park (which in places shares a boundary with the landfill site) and Taylor River Reserve. If emissions are not effectively controlled, what will then happen?
Boulevard Park on Taylor was sold as a smart lifestyle choice. Many of us living there are aghast at the thought of living ‘‘next door’’ to a potentially toxic industrial plant. The impact of this plant, if built, would have a negative effect on peoples’ mental and physical health, not to mention property values and the tranquillity of the suburb.
The Marlborough District Council has a duty of care to protect the residents of Blenheim with policy that puts people and