You said it: Yesterday’s best comments on The Post
Here is a selection of the best comments from The Post readers on stories yesterday.
Government tipped to start calling some shots in electricity market this week Goatpointer
Not sure about the renationalisation but all options for more generation need to be looked at. Pumped hydro (eg Onslow) has merit and so to do modern compact nuclear power plants. Both, however, seem to be sadly and stupidly politically unacceptable. The practise of not turning on the turbines to keep prices up is screwing the consumer. Generation and retail need to be separated.
Kathycooks
When you say “thermal”, what exactly does that mean. It would seem time to invest heavily in solar, in wind and renewables and importing Gas would be costly, difficult to store and make us more reliant on expensive imports. It’s time to go Green and there should be subsidies for installing solar and lowering our emissions. This current government is light on ideas and on future proofing.
Meandthedog
An old saying was, as you departed NZ for good, “last one leaving turn off the lights”. Well a lot of people have left and for those of us remaining unless something changes soon, there will be no lights to turn off.
GoFigure
Lake Onslow project was so hideously expensive that it would only ever serve to further increase power costs. It was right to scrap it but action needs to be taken to increase generation. First logical step is to make it worthwhile for every home owner to install solar panels. That would increase electricity generation during the day when power is desperately needed. At present there is no significant benefit to home owners, except for any warm fuzzies they might feel about helping save the planet. Home owners should be paid a decent rate for surplus energy exported to the gird, at present the rate is so low it’s a waste of effort unless the home owner actually wants to help increase power company profits. Let’s not waste valuable farmland covering it in solar panels, better to generate off existing rooftops.
A health system on the brink of failure Big_R
Oh please, the health system has supposedly been on the “brink of failure” for the past 25 years or more yet we are still ranked as having one of the best health systems in the world.
Nothing will change until people realise little NZ will never be able to compete on salaries with the likes of Australia, the UK, US, Canada and thus the answer is not – just keep increasing pay and conditions and hope richer countries don’t out bid us. What we need is a complete workforce redesign.
Bossy1
I note that it is a good sign Govt willing to train more doctors, in article, sounds good but reality is something quite different.
Govt already knocked back Auckland and Otago medical schools being involved in this process. Third medical school govt preferred option at Waikato, no business case, no resources, no buildings, no staff, so this is unlikely to be operational for a least two years at the earliest.
Eleven years to train a GP, therefore the first graduates would be work ready in 2037. To give some context PM is aged 54, therefore he will be collecting his Super before first doctor is working.