Post by Kiwi Frontline on May 10, 2016 10:09:24 GMT 12
THE WAIKATO RIVER TANIWHA TAX
A taniwha tax, indigenous to New Zealand, describes payments to tribal groups to make demands disappear. A closer look at the Waikato River Five Year Report 2015 shows that 44 percent of clean-up funding went as payments to five tribes that claim deep connection to the river.
This report details $22-million worth of funding to 170 clean-up projects and also contains the Report Card that gave the catchment a C+ rating, as reported in breakingviewsnz.blogspot.co.nz/2016/03/mike-butler-waikato-river-clean-up.html
Page 5 of the report says iwi received $9,860,000 out of a total of $22,435,000 for the first four years. Waikato-Tainui received $7,644,000, Te Arawa $676,000, Raukawa $733,000, Tuwharetoa $290,000, and Maniapoto $517,000. (1)
This river of cash to corporate iwi is on top of $212.8-million “redress” payment to the tribes by way of the Waikato River “raupatu” settlements that started with the Waikato-Tainui Raupatu (Waikato River) Settlement in 2010. (2)
That claim included allegations that the Crown allowed pollution of the river while the tribe had no control over it. The settlement has been wrapped inside high-sounding utterances about cleaning up the river, so many may think its money well spent…..
Continue reading Mike Butler's eye opening article here > breakingviewsnz.blogspot.co.nz/2016/05/mike-butler-waikato-river-taniwha-tax.html
A taniwha tax, indigenous to New Zealand, describes payments to tribal groups to make demands disappear. A closer look at the Waikato River Five Year Report 2015 shows that 44 percent of clean-up funding went as payments to five tribes that claim deep connection to the river.
This report details $22-million worth of funding to 170 clean-up projects and also contains the Report Card that gave the catchment a C+ rating, as reported in breakingviewsnz.blogspot.co.nz/2016/03/mike-butler-waikato-river-clean-up.html
Page 5 of the report says iwi received $9,860,000 out of a total of $22,435,000 for the first four years. Waikato-Tainui received $7,644,000, Te Arawa $676,000, Raukawa $733,000, Tuwharetoa $290,000, and Maniapoto $517,000. (1)
This river of cash to corporate iwi is on top of $212.8-million “redress” payment to the tribes by way of the Waikato River “raupatu” settlements that started with the Waikato-Tainui Raupatu (Waikato River) Settlement in 2010. (2)
That claim included allegations that the Crown allowed pollution of the river while the tribe had no control over it. The settlement has been wrapped inside high-sounding utterances about cleaning up the river, so many may think its money well spent…..
Continue reading Mike Butler's eye opening article here > breakingviewsnz.blogspot.co.nz/2016/05/mike-butler-waikato-river-taniwha-tax.html