Coastal Ratepayers United (CRU) in Kāpiti says the District Council has commissioned a report from an engineering firm with links to the nuclear arms industry.
CRU says: “KCDC has reports from Jacobs Engineering (an American Fortune 500 company with expertise in “defence” work and nuclear weapons systems), costing $245,000.
In a pamphlet being distributed to residents this week, CRU says:
‘Dear Resident
• Your property has been identified by KCDC as being affected by Coastal Hazards – this is now on your LIM.
• During 2022, hazard lines will appear on your property map and your LIM will say your property will be subject to sea level rise.
• This means you will not be able to make any alterations or additions to your property – let alone build a new home.
• Council has hand-picked a group (CAP) of 6 residents and 6 iwi
members to advise it on your behalf. This group headed by Jim Bolger, will not be meeting in public or sharing any information.
• KCDC management – CEO Wayne Maxwell and Sean Mallon have
continued to refuse to meet with CRU.
• The mayor has told councillors not to speak with CRU as that would interfere with the work of CAP.
• KCDC has reports from Jacobs Engineering, their new preferred consultants (an American Fortune 500 company with expertise in “defence” work and nuclear weapons systems), costing $245,000 – your money.
• The science in these reports is discredited by local, qualified, experts.
• Information is already being put on LIMs for properties several kilometres from the coast, despite assurances this would not happen until Jacob’s advice is verified.
• Managed retreat is still favoured by Council, with no scientific authority, meaning ultimately enforced
evacuation – without compensation.
• In the meantime, expect difficulties with insurance and lending – these institutions will, increasingly, be looking at LIMs for risk assessment.
• What can you do? Talk to your local councillor and make your views clear (only Crs Halliday, Prvanov, Randall and Compton) have been willing to talk to CRU.
• Find information on how Council has been ignoring your interests on CRU’s website www.cru.org.nz
• Join CRU and give yourself a stronger voice – we now have over 400 members.’
KIN’s research says Wikipedia has backed up CRU’s assertion about Jacob’s armaments links.
Wikipedia says: ‘JACOBS NEW ZEALAND LIMITED is a NZ Limited Company from Auckland in NEW ZEALAND. It was incorporated on 2 Mar 1998 and has the status: Registered.
There are 75512 shares in issue. The ultimate holding company is Jacobs Engineering Group Inc’
And in another report Wikipedia says:
On August 9, 2017, the Pentagon awarded a $4.6 billion Integrated Research & Development for Enterprise Solutions (IRES) follow-on contract to Jacobs Technology Inc, a unit of Jacobs Engineering Group Inc. to provide products and services for the Missile Defense Agency and its Missile Defense Integration and Operations Center.[19][20]
Thank you Quentin Poole for responding and confirming that I have indeed been willing to meet with CRU representatives to discuss their concerns. I hope every step will now be taken to correct the information in any future public statements or leaflets made by CRU. That would be much appreciated. Coffee anytime.
My name is Quentin Poole and I am the CRU spokesperson that Councillor Elliot is referring to in her comments on 8 January 2022 on the KIN website.
I acknowledge that I did have a conversation with Councillor Elliott – 11th October 2021 – to discuss CRU’s concerns regarding the documented technical flaws in the Jacobs Volume 1 report and the knock-on effect it would have regarding Land Information Memorandum (LIM) – in particular the real-life implications in respect to home insurance and mortgage renewals.
As a follow up to our discussion, I provided her with was a judicial report referring to LIMs as well as Guru’s articles – “Notes from a Corner Dairy” on the same matter. I also sent her the latest NIWA Sea Level Rise 1945 – 2017 which details actual sea level rise.
CRU is committed to good science, good planning and good law.
Thank you Alan, you are indeed a fair editor. It was important to meet and listen to the views of the CRU spokesperson and they do have their unique take on the coastal issue. I found it informative and at times challenging, especially when he made it clear they do not believe in coastal sea rise or the melting of the polar ice caps. I forgot to ask which research report presented to the recent United Nations climate change symposium he quoted, when he said the alarmist reports about the ice caps melting was a conspiracy theory contrived by a cabal of financial and oil industry heads all over the world, perhaps they could kindly provide a link to this research report. Happy New Year to both you and Helen from us.
Just a small matter to correct and clarify – I also met with a CRU representative when requested late last year and know of two other councillors who aren’t named above, who met the same representative in the same week. Accuracy is useful.
More than that, Jackie, accuracy is vital! We (at KIN) do all we can to be accurate, but cannot guarantee accuracy in statements from outside groups, or politicians. Regards, Alan Tristram, Editor