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Podcast: Canterbury Mornings with John MacDonald
Episode: John MacDonald: Is user-pays being taken too far?
Description: We'll be chewing through the power in the south this week with the frosty weather. Which is the "ideal time" for Transpower to reveal that the budget for a major upgrade of electricity transmission lines in the South Island has increased again and that South Islanders will be paying for it. Which raises the question: Is this taking user-pays too far? And I think it is. What’s happened, is Transpower is upgrading its lines north of Twizel. Because, the way things are going, they won’t be able to cope with increased dema...