Have you wondered why such a project as this has not made national headlines and been plastered all over the media as indeed other wind farm proposals have?
Mighty River Power and its "partner "PNCC have made sure that it has been kept as quiet as possible. MRP has in fact a "strategist ".
On a number of occasions I have posted on DomPost blogs information regarding the Turitea project and a link to the website (which is the subject of this submission). They were always deleted. This puzzled me but I persisted. Here is what I posted on July 16th, for the second time after the first similar post was deleted. This was just prior to MRP's display in the Convention Centre.
"Intrusive noise from wind turbines is only one of the issues facing Palmerston North. Mighty River Power will next week reveal for the first time its planned wind farm for the Turitea Reserve and farm land in front of the reserve. The Turitea Reserve is the city's water supply and last remaining area of native forest of any significance. Would Wellington countenance a wind farm in the Karori Wildlife Sanctuary ? Palmerston North faces a massive property devaluation on top of the 14% plunge in June. These issues are covered on this web site.
Comment by Paul Stichbury — 16 July 2008 @ 9:01 am"
I then checked the sitemeter on the website and this is what I found.
Palmerston North.info | ||||||||||||||
Domain Name | mightyriver.co.nz ? (New Zealand) | |||||||||||||
IP Address | 203.144.32.# (DMZGLOBAL) | |||||||||||||
ISP | DMZGLOBAL | |||||||||||||
Location |
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Language | English (New Zealand) | |||||||||||||
Operating System | Microsoft WinXP | |||||||||||||
Browser | Internet Explorer 7.0 | |||||||||||||
Javascript | version 1.5 | |||||||||||||
Monitor |
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Time of Visit | Jul 16 2008 9:08:01 am | |||||||||||||
Last Page View | Jul 16 2008 9:08:01 am | |||||||||||||
Visit Length | 0 seconds | |||||||||||||
Page Views | 1 | |||||||||||||
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Visitor's Time | Jul 16 2008 9:08:01 am | |||||||||||||
Visit Number | 858 | |||||||||||||
This shows that MRP had been monitoring my activities. The referring URL is this.
which now takes you to this page ( NB it has changed since July )
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Stuff Blogs Have Been Moved/Updated
Three Things You Need To Know
ONE:
The new address is https://blogadmin.stuff.co.nz/
Note that we are using a self signed certificate for that site right now. Your web browser will give a warning about this.
TWO:
The login procedure has changed. An additional layer of password protection has been added and this requires an additional username and password.
This page will be updated soon with procedures for getting the new password to you. That should be sorted by Tuesday afternoon. In the meantime, feel free to contact Reed reed@catalyst.net.nz with any questions.
THREE:
Your existing WordPress username has not changed but your password has been expired and will need to be reset. You can do this yourself by visiting the Lost your password? page and following the instructions. This is a two step process.
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The interpretation that could be placed on this is that either MRP or some associated party has hacked the Stuff.co.nz website from Mighty River Power's website to edit blog posts which it finds unfavourable, or it could be that Fairfax NZ actually allows such actions by MRP as they favour wind generation? The CEO for Fairfax Media NZ was previously on the board of Meridian and has just been appointed to Mighty River Power's board. All you have to do is connect the dots. . . . . . . . . . . . . .
The second post I made was allowed to stay as by now the fact that MRP was about to make its public debut with a few carefully selected photomontages at the Convention Centre meant that the cat was out of the bag.
It was obvious to me what had been going on and so I emailed copies of the sitemeter page to myself, John Adams and another (whose name has been removed from this public web site for privacy reasons ) and my work email at Queen Elizabeth College in order to retain the evidence. On the 9th of November I went to find the page in my computer email and was shocked to find that either MRP or some associated party had hacked my home computer, my work email and deleted all trace of the page (sent mail and inbox). John Adams claims to have lost the same emails and many files but was unable to find concrete evidence of wrong doing. Thankfully, one had been missed though and xxx xxx was able to forward to me the email I had copied to her months earlier. Note, prior to the 9thNovember I had regularly checked to see that this page was secure on my computers both at home and at work. Whoever did this was keen to remove all trace of MRP's apparent ability to access the media in this way. Blog posts generate very little in the way of internet traffic as a rule and quickly date. MRP was, in my opinion, very sensitive about publicity as their proposal is so outrageous. Why would an SOE risk stooping to such dubious practices? One can only speculate as to what other censorship may have taken place.
The following has been reported in the press.
April-May 2006: State-owned power companies Solid Energy and Mighty River Power admit hiring spies to monitor the activities of protest groups, including Save Happy Valley, a group occupying the site of a proposed West Coast mine. The spies are recruited by an Auckland private investigation company, Thompson and Clark
http://www.stuff.co.nz/4489507a11.html
And
Another corporate accused of spying
29/05/2007 6:44:02
Greenpeace suspects it may also have been spied upon by a major corporation.
Solid Energy has defended its decision to hire an investigations company, which planted a spy among the Save Happy Valley Coalition which is protesting against the state-owned enterprise's open cast mining on the West Coast.
Greenpeace alleges Mighty River Power may also have hired the same private eye company last year, when Greenpeace was fighting the SOE's bid to refire the Marsden B coal-fired power station in Northland. Greenpeace says it has been trying for some time to find out what information Mighty River had on it, including anything gleaned by private investigators. The issue is now before the Ombudsman and the Privacy Commissioner, after Mighty River refused the request.
Sir Paul Reeves is on MRP's board. He is an important and respected figure in the community and a former Governor General. How much does MRP's board know about MRP's modus operandi?
In the light of revelations, 24/4/09, that the Minister was economical with the truth as to why he really called-in the Turitea project the pattern of collusion at the highest levels to force the wind farm on the city has become patently obvious.
