Posts by Sacha
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Hard News: How long the leash on the…, in reply to Craig Ranapia,
I remember one or two people saying the same about Key
What, that the smiling assasin was too nice for politics? pull the other one.
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Hard News: When A City Falls, in reply to merc,
That was the initial body before CERA was put in place. In both cases, to sidestep the local Council and put power directly in the hands of Minister Brownlee.
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Hard News: How long the leash on the…, in reply to Craig Ranapia,
are you OK?
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Legal Beagle: Election '11 -…, in reply to JLM,
that does sound strikingly familiar
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Capture: Colour is the new black, in reply to Russell Brown,
I'm, er, told
by that aunt who keeps sending you tapes
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Redzoned eastern resident and MP Lianne Dalziel reflects on what impeded recovery in a recent address to a finance and insurance industry conference.
“One thing I have learned is that we prepare well for disasters in New Zealand – but we have not yet learned how to prepare for the recovery.
...Following the Civil Defence & Emergency Management planning template the recovery process kicks in immediately after the response is initiated and runs parallel to the response effort. There is then a managed transition to the lead role when the response phase is over.
...“So what did go wrong? Very simply, the government managed to render inactive the very part of the template that was designed to automate the recovery process and the transition to recovery from response, when they set up the Canterbury Earthquake Recovery Commission (the Commission). I believe this was inadvertent, but it has cost Christchurch – not just financially but also in terms of the confidence of the communities that were affected by the first earthquake. When the Minister admitted to me later that he hadn’t read the recovery chapter of the Canterbury Civil Defence Group Plan, I wasn’t surprised.
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Hard News: When A City Falls, in reply to Joe Wylie,
commutes from Hamilton
really? and they reappointed him?
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Chickens circling the roost.
The commercial manager of Christchurch's PGC building knew the building was deemed an earthquake risk, but did not tell either the owner or engineers inspecting the building.
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Mr Buchanan said he had reassured tenants the building was safe to occupy on the information he had received from Holmes Consulting engineering reports.
"I'm not an engineer. I take advice from professionals. Their role was to make sure the building was safe to occupy.''
Giving evidence at the commission yesterday, Stephen Collins, the building owner, said "trusted'' estate agents and lawyers carrying out due diligence on his behalf had failed to inform him of the reports which showed the building had "the potential for severe failure'' in the event of a major quake.
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Legal Beagle: Election '11 -…, in reply to Hans Versluys,
It will do away with the need of an electorate vote as your list nominee gets to be your MP. MMP would then need only one vote.
Not a necessary conclusion at all - though I like Brent's idea for ranking the list MPs. Others have pointed out not many voters are likely to be arsed doing that. but I guess we don't exactly clamour to join parties either.
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Legal Beagle: Election '11 -…, in reply to Sanya Baker,
we would be elevating communities of geography above communities of other interests
+1