Power charges
Sir,—Now that the second smelter project has, predictably, bitten the dust, and Aramoana residents and others can relax in the knowledge that their irreplaceable environment is safe from the grubby paws of rapacious industrialists. where does that leave us, the “ordinary blokes”, the consumers, the tax-racked men-in-the-street? Are the imminent outlandish increases in our power charges still effective from April 1 or are we instead to receive some form of rebate to compensate for the “built-in capital costs” related to the smelter and its ancillary projects, which have now returned to “Never-Never Land”? Now that social services, also predictably, are being hacked to the bone, and the singleincome family is being bled dry via direct and indirect taxation, must we also pay for Mr Birch’s “castles (smelters) in the air”? The Minister’s vague, evasive responses on TV recently fuelled that question with urgency.—Yours, etc., BILL FILSHIE. March 14, 1982.
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