COMMUNITY WORKSHOP
RE STRATEGIC PLAN FOR THE CHATHAM ISLANDS ENTERPRISE TRUST AND ITS SUBSIDARY
COMPANIES:
A
community workshop will be held on Thursday 25 June 2009 in the Waitangi Hall.
Trustees will present the "plan" to the meeting and then it will be
discussed. Input from members of the
community is encouraged. There will be
two workshops on Thursday to allow for people to attend during the day and
evening.
10.00am - 12.00pm
7.00pm - 9.00pm
Copies
of the Strategic Plan is available at the Trust Office and also will be
available on the day of the workshops.
Everyone is welcome
- Coffee and Tea provided.
ELECTRICITY: As
most of you are aware Chatham Islands Electricity has its own supply of bulk
diesel now. This allows the company (CIE Ltd) to purchase lower cost fuel and
to reduce the cost of power to consumers.
From
1 August 2009 Chatham Islands Electricity Limited will decrease the price of
electricity by 5 cents per unit.
Supply
charge of $16.00 per month has not increased since the early 1990's. Due to the Island's salty environment the company
will be replacing the corroded power lines soon and to cover those costs the
line charge will increase to $20.00 per month this will take effect also on 1
August 2009.
The
contract for the wind turbines is almost complete. Although wind generation will not
significantly lower the electricity price, it will lock in future proofing of
power prices should the price of diesel go up again as it did late last year.
This is the start of a strategy to stabilize power prices on the island and
also move away from the dependency on fossil fuels. When the diesel prices rose
as they did, the electricity company absorbed some of those price increases therefore
this financial year CIE Ltd is running at a deficit. The company hopes to have more good news as
some of its strategies come on stream.
Chatham
Islands Electricity Limited is calling for Registers of Interest for an
apprentice Electrician. Please contact
the Trust Office.
Eftpos
facilities are now available at the Trust Office.
REVIEW OF THE
COUNCIL AND THE TRUST:
As
per the householder in the May issue of the Chatham Islander, members of the
community can provide their views regarding the review to Hugh Rennie or Basil
Morrison. Written submissions can be
sent to Hugh Rennie QC, PO Box 10242, Wellington or email:
or
. If you have mislaid your householder please
ring the Trust Office and we can send one out to you.
A project to harness wave energy on the Chatham Islands has been
awarded funding under the government's Marine Energy Deployment Fund,
Energy and Resources Minister Gerry Brownlee announced today.
The proposal put forward by Chatham Islands Marine Energy Ltd
(CHIME), to install a shore-based device to capture wave energy, has
been awarded $2.16 million, subject to conditions, including receiving
resource consent.
The project will see the construction of an oscillating water column
to power two 110 kilowatt Wells turbines. The device will be installed
on the south-west coast of Chatham Island, and will supply electricity
into the island's electricity network.
Chatham Islands Management Limited Ron
Tuuta Trustee and Chatham Islands Ports Limited Director have been contracted
as Acting Chief Executive Officer of the Chatham Islands Enterprise Trust until
this position is filled.
We welcome La Toya Hough to
the staff; La Toya replaced Deidre Thomas as our cleaner.
CIET Trustees, Councillors
and Iwi/Imi Trustees have made the decision to meet monthly to attend monthly
Whanaungatanga (Relationship) Hui, each governance group has a turn at hosting
and the aim of these hui is for the groups to let each other know what is
happening within their organizations merely as a communication tool these hui
are informal and no set agenda is made but at times there have been requests
for a particular item to be discussed.
