Schofield: “This option is much easier and less risky than building dams”, as HB considers how best to achieve greater water security.

Smale: the neoliberal experiment has handed vast amounts of water to a minority of corporate dairy interests who hold it as a property right

Brian Halstead: Waimea cost likely to reach $210m from original estimate of $75m ... “sounds a warning to other proposed storage projects”

Paul Bailey: “Mr Petersen is extolling the environmental benefits without mentioning the HB public would pay via a HBRC rate rise of 17%”

Belford: “One might think that allocating $450K of Centralines’ consumers’ and CHBDC ratepayers’ money is throwing good money after bad”

Gren Christie: “Trees that ancestors of people living in CHB today may have rested under before Captain Cook saw Aotearoa will be destroyed