Immediate and Severe

Kapiti Coast ratepayers are at the forefront of  what is more like an experiment than an honest attempt at dealing with nature and its fluctuations.

Their District Council is in the club. That is the modelling club.

It's the way these days. Have computer will model.

However as Waikanae watch points out the real world consequences for ratepayers are immediate and severe.

Councils can spend all the money they like on modelling. It must be fun looking at a multitude of scenarios  knowing that ratepayers are a bottomless pit and flood mapping is a just a tool and what comes out in reports could be right or wrong .Never mind we can just do some more.

Trouble is the consequences do not seem to trouble politicians be they in Wellington , Waikanae or Hawkes Bay.

The flow on effect , the cumulative effect of modelling decisions passed down the line through insurance, rates, taxes snowballs in to a burden for ratepayers who are the suckers who have to cough.

What is annoying is that if these models are adopted and proven wrong over time what come back does the ratepayer have ?

There is no such thing as accountability when it comes to Local Government .Try saying 'told you so' in ten years time.

This whole shambles really is a consequence of the pursuit of a fantasy. Scenarios all produced in the name of climate change and the industry around it.

What concerns me is that the same situation is playing out throughout New Zealand and ratepayers are being extorted for no reason.

The current crop of politicians have been tricked in to believing in this fantasy and lack the ability to stand back and analyse the folly unfolding .