Price to pay for slash damage
If the residents of Tolaga Bay have not had enough to worry about with all the flooding, now they have the worry of how to clean up the logs.
How were the logging companies allowed to leave all those logs on the ground in an area which is prone to slips? Who is going to clear the logs? Who gave permission to leave the sites in such away knowing what might happen in heavy rain?
There must be a full time job for WorkSafe to monitor the clean up as it would be a very dangerous job.
Hit these so called forester experts in the pocket so as this rape and pillage of our forests does not happen again. In response to recent letters criticising red light runners, I think we need to look a bit further up the chain too. Namely the people who don’t go on a green light.
Fair enough if the first person off the rank wants to pause briefly and shake their head first to the right and then to the left, to check for red light runners, but what is preventing drivers presented with a green light, from moving forward?
Why is there a three second pause before the next vehicle moves forward and why does there have to be a four car gap between vehicles navigating intersections ? I just don’t get it.
I’ve come to the conclusion that Christchurch drivers don’t actually mind sitting in traffic and spending most of their day in the vicinity of traffic intersections.
If only Christchurch drivers could handle roundabouts. Those were the days. jumped ship, shot through or been disposed.
Back in 2016 when Ian Simpson resigned to become a CEO elsewhere Sir Maarten is reported inter alia as saying ‘‘almost all home and content claims have been settled under Simpson’s leadership and Simpson could take credit for that.’’ I can’t wait to see the Tui billboard!
When the report was commissioned by EQC Minister Megan Woods Sir Maarten, like Nellie the elephant, ‘‘packed his bags and said goodbye to the circus’’.
We now await the denials and bluster of the previous EQC Minister Gerry Brownlee who covered for this dysfunctional outfit year after year. To be fair to Brownlee, however, to have criticised the performance of EQC would have meant that Gerry was highlighting not only his own but his Government’s shortcomings in this sorry saga. sermons, by media reports of ‘‘contamination’’, and so forth. The people supplying our need for fear wear distinctive costumes, ranging from facial paint and/or tattoos through to white lab-coats.
What makes anything a suitable object of irrational fear? The most distinctive characteristic is invisibility and non-detectability by normal senses, especially if only skilled ‘‘experts’’ using esoteric equipment can come up with seemingly precise numbers. There is real scare value to things that are damaging only at concentrations of levels incredibly higher than could ever be encountered in daily life. We can pick our favourite fear from meth, methyl bromide, asbestos, cell-phone towers, genetically modified foods, stranger-danger, etc. How many boiler-suit-clad ‘‘contamination experts’’ have suddenly switched to ‘‘protecting us’’ from methyl bromide instead of meth?
There is no harm in our predilection for being scared unless leaders, mistakenly regarding enjoyable public terror as a genuine concern, pass rules that inadvertently cause actual harm.