Latest / The Kākā by Bernard Hickey
Tuesday's Chorus: Where's the solar & batteries? And a proper CGT?
Briefly in the news in Aotearoa’s political economy around housing, poverty and climate on Tuesday, October 28:
* Almost a third of dairy farmers in Otago and Southland are still without power to their milking sheds this morning, five days after extreme gusts of wind flattened power poles, shelter belts and pine forests across the region. (RNZ)
* Farmers, water treatment plant operators and cell-tower maintenance workers are scrambling to bring in and share diesel generators, just as Metservice issued new orange rain, wind and snow warnings across both islands.
* Southland’s Mayor Rob Scott…
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