Posted 7th August 2019 to the Otago Daily Times Newspaper Dunedin NZ
Sept 14th 2019 will mark half a century of power production from the Manapouri Power station.
Seems like it may pass without an event to celebrate NZs most ambitious Engineering Project.
I hope that Meridian Energy will at least re open the station to the public again.
But before health and safety halted public interaction meridian was putting together a display of historic equipment in an audit tunnel
That is now under a cloud.
To this day no museum has been attempted to showcase the life and times of the people that toiled to build this epic project.
Some of us have tried to keep artefacts for that event but sometimes it feels like its all in vein.
Perhaps there is too much sadness involved with the reckless, needless environmental damage that was narrowly avoided and the painful loss of a NZ Taxpayers money
selling their assets without consultation that wasn’t.
Either way it’s sad the people of Fiordland who are forgotten.
Sept 14th 2019 will mark half a century of power production from the Manapouri Power station.
Seems like it may pass without an event to celebrate NZs most ambitious Engineering Project.
I hope that Meridian Energy will at least re open the station to the public again.
But before health and safety halted public interaction meridian was putting together a display of historic equipment in an audit tunnel
That is now under a cloud.
To this day no museum has been attempted to showcase the life and times of the people that toiled to build this epic project.
Some of us have tried to keep artefacts for that event but sometimes it feels like its all in vein.
Perhaps there is too much sadness involved with the reckless, needless environmental damage that was narrowly avoided and the painful loss of a NZ Taxpayers money
selling their assets without consultation that wasn’t.
Either way it’s sad the people of Fiordland who are forgotten.
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