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In the US you must dispose of old batteries at point of new purchase, it’s like Dick’s responsibility, afterall they sell them.
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Hard News: Winning the RWC: it's complicated, in reply to Russell Brown,
Sorry I meant the AA, AAA, D type batteries that should be disposed of as best we can. My car battery I just replaced and traded yeah, I love those chats, when you drop off at ewaste collections it's like Arkwright meets Bill.
I work in tech, it pains me to see the waste, a great deal. -
Hard News: Winning the RWC: it's complicated, in reply to BenWilson,
http://www.ewaste.org.nz/sched.htm I love recycling ewaste. Shame the Govt. doesn't see a place for battery recycling.
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It's reveletory reading Mr Templeton's book, All Honourable Men, even just a scan read, it's all there, nothing has changed, we dodge bullets, they load more.
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Hard News: Winning the RWC: it's complicated, in reply to hamishm,
http://www.stuff.co.nz/auckland/local-news/rwc-in-auckland/5799249/Whats-on-in-Auckland-October-18
Count the rugby related things that are on. There are things going on here that seem to suggest deeper motives methinks. -
Hard News: Thinking Digital, in reply to Russell Brown,
That's pollie S.O.P.
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What I did read was that a simple clause covering "unforeseen circumstances" like oil shocks would have saved a lot of time and tension in 1977.
http://books.google.co.nz/books?id=05zYQgYOqucC&pg=PA76&lpg=PA76&dq=who+negotiated+the+comalco+aluminium+smelter+contract?&source=bl&ots=FCgxcGHs40&sig=FKlYI8QTKm2rXsxWkxDzz2uxvUU&hl=en&ei=TcicTtfKGo_MmAWNsLiFCQ&sa=X&oi=book_result&ct=result&resnum=8&ved=0CFoQ6AEwBw#v=onepage&q&f=falseFrom the horses mouth, this whole saga is a damn good reason why we don't want to sell off our assets, ever. To be fair Muldoon tried to jack up the price paid for power, but I suggest that was to be for his own popularity because you may note in the other article, Comalco does not pay much tax, at all.
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Thick plot,
However, the greenhouse agreements the Government is negotiating, or has put in place, with companies such as New Zealand Refining, are only valid until 2012.
http://www.nzherald.co.nz/business/news/article.cfm?c_id=3&objectid=10115663
I did a goog search on...who negotiated the Comalco smelter contract...what I got was a whole can of worms, including Muldoon.
http://www.google.co.nz/search?rlz=1C1_____enNZ394NZ394&gcx=w&sourceid=chrome&ie=UTF-8&q=who+negotiated+the+comalco+aluminium+smelter+contract%3F
oh dear, history here,
http://multinationalmonitor.org/hyper/issues/1992/06/mm0692_07.html -
Take or pay
At present, the Bluff aluminium smelter contract to buy power is at a fixed price from state-owned Meridian under a take-or-pay agreement for about 543 megawatts of power.
The deal means the smelter pays for the power whether it is used or not and Meridian is obliged to provide the power. The final 10per cent of the power for the smelter is bought on the spot or wholesale market, and that volatile market has been an issue for industrial power buyers for many years.
The smelter has a new power contract from 2013, for 18 years, for 572MW. The price in the new contract is adjusted to reflect factors including the price of aluminium and the inflation rate. The amount the smelter pays for power rises or falls according to the rise and fall of aluminium prices.
http://www.stuff.co.nz/business/industries/5803274/Optimism-Bluff-smelter-to-stay-open -
I remember the electricity supply deal, iron sands are in my purview due to the surf that rolls over them (Muriwai sand mining).
We are not well served, or depending on your accent, well served by those in power.
From memory we make very little from the aluminium deal, or from Govt's P.O.V. we generate the right amount of privatised profit from the publicised debt.