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Take the discussion of shitty music to the appropriate thread:
https://www.forum.thesilverfern.com/topic/4938/worst-songs-of-eras/240
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It was the fourth quarter in the past five where the economy has contracted, ASB economist Nathaniel Keall said. Annual growth was just 0.6 per cent.
And looked at on a per capita basis, it all gets very ugly. Per capita GDP was down 0.7 per cent for the quarter.
“Surging migration-led population growth means the economy at the individual household level is much weaker than headline GDP suggests,” said ANZ senior economist Miles Workman. “Having contracted for five consecutive quarters (to be down 3.9 per cent peak to trough), the per capita data makes for grim reading.”
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@antipodean said in NZ Politics:
@booboo a 100 person brawl because two uninvited people turned up to a party? WTF?
It's Gizzy
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Friends and family members of Chrysler Stevens-Mark paid tribute to the 21-year-old who was killed in the gathering that got out of hand on Lytton Rd on Saturday night.
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How do NZ's shitty infrastructure, planning, approval processes, and massive immigration combine to retard economic growth? Here's a good example: Amazon's construction of NZ$7.5B of data centre facilities in on hold due to wastewater problems.
https://newsroom.co.nz/2024/03/01/amazons-7-5b-nz-data-centre-plan-quietly-put-on-hold/
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@Tim said in NZ Politics:
Paula Bennett is the Chair of Pharmac
There are probably 20 people vastly better qualified just at the old Adis office on the Shore (now part of Springer-Nature Publishing Group). Their clinical trial reivews are the first thing that many people at pharma companies read when a new drug is approved.
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@Tim said in NZ Politics:
How do NZ's shitty infrastructure, planning, approval processes, and massive immigration combine to retard economic growth? Here's a good example: Amazon's construction of NZ$7.5B of data centre facilities in on hold due to wastewater problems.
https://newsroom.co.nz/2024/03/01/amazons-7-5b-nz-data-centre-plan-quietly-put-on-hold/
I'm picking there's a whole heap of beat up, and conflation of terms and issues in those stories, the spin seems to be because Three Waters.
I'm not up on the discharge of the cooling water, but if it's just potable water used for cooling I can't see what the problem is. My reading is there is no issue with water supply. Discharge would be clean water and constant.
It seems the issue is stotmwater discharge, but they don't specify if it's quality or quantity.
If it's a quality issue, a lot of run-off would be roof water which is generally pretty clean, but you'd have to treat car parks and roads. Not sure what area they need to treat and if their strategy is to treat before discharge leaves the site, or utilise a wider regional treatment.
If they have an issue with peak discharge they would need prove "non-worsening" by providing detention (as opposed to retention) and control discharge to pre-development levels.
Non of the above has anything to do with sewage treatment or water supply, so the tie-in to Three Waters is tenuous at best, and mire likely typical political campaigning.
Also, quick FYI, the term "wastewater" has been used in place of "sewage", the latter being a subset of the former, but recent trend to move back to "sewage" to avoid confusion. In the first story they seem to conflate the discharge of the coolant, "wastewater" and stormwater.
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