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...answer is simple: until the last Quadling leaves, student services and facilities in the Quad should mirror those available to students in the River Houses. Sacrifices Quadlings make for the greater good must be compensated. Though marketed by the College as improvements that promise to revitalize Quad life, the renovations of Hilles and the QRAC only promise to leave Quadlings more jealous of their River counterparts...
...over new zealand, people are fighting the power. At Marsden Point, near Whangarei, Greenpeace activists held a sit-in atop a disused power station last month to protest plans to restart the plant and run it on coal. On the Gowan river, near Marlborough, kayakers turned a March 5 whitewater festival into a demonstration against a hydroelectricity project. In the Waikato, south of Auckland, furious farmers last week burned in effigy the boss of a company that wants to run a power line through their green acres on pylons 70 m high. Bring electricity infrastructure too close to a Kiwi...
...Hydro power schemes generate 60% of the country's electricity. Why not build more? Meridian Energy knows. Last year it abandoned a $NZ1.2 billion, 500-megawatt project on the South Island's Waitaki river, saying it was not sure it would get the necessary environmental consents or water rights. New Zealand needs a new power project of that size every three years, says Leyland. But even small hydro schemes like the one on the Gowan river, or another on the nearby Wairau, raise hackles. "A lot of rivers will potentially be ruined," says Lawson Davey, of the Save the Wairau...
...Maui gas fields? When dwindling gas flows forced the country's largest power station, at Huntly, to switch to coal last year, there were noisy protests. Once the old station at Marsden Point is modernized, it will be the cleanest coal-fired plant in Australasia, says its owner, Mighty River Power. But that doesn't impress critics, who say getting electricity from coal is a betrayal of New Zealand's Kyoto Protocol obligations. "It's a backward step for us to start using coal," says Fitzsimons...
...have enough of. The frenzy associated with blocking season stems primarily from the fact that it’s hard to imagine that everything will work out in the end—especially if best friends one through eight are Quadded and number nine ends up on the River...