Affordable Quality * SECURITY DOORS * INSECT SCREENS * SHOWER DOORS * BLINDS * AWNINGS * WARDROBE SYSTEMS Regular Bream Bay Service 1967 Phone / Fax (09) 432 0209. email - [email protected] PH: 438 9452 Mobile 027 432 0070 Postal Address - RD 2, Waipu 0582. 10 May 2012 34 Albert St Whangarei Website: www.breambaynews.co.nz Div. Shadelite Industry Marsden A to be Fruit for everyone at Ruakaka Primary dismantled as well. Story and pictures by Julie Paton. The demolition of what remains of the Marsden A power station will begin this month and is expected to take five months to complete. Mighty River Power, the state owned enterprise which owns the land and building, has contracted the South Auckland based company Ward Demolition Limited to carry out the work. Mark Trigg, Mighty River Power’s General Manager Development said the company would retain ownership of the land at Ruakaka but has “no immediate plans for the site.” Mr. Trigg said Mighty River Power would be working closely with Ward Demolition to ensure all reasonable steps are taken to limit noise, vibration and dust as work progresses.Meanwhile the dismantled Marsden B plant sits on the wharf at Marsden Point. The ship Happy River is due at Northport on 20 May to load the plant for shipment to India. Last week a high court injunction was placed on the shipment, over a claim by the Ruakaka Engineering firm SPI that it was owed a further $2.5 million for the job of dismantling the plant as more asbestos then was expected was found inside it. The Indian telecommunications company United Telecom Ltd. (UTL), purchased the plant from Mighty River Power for the sum of $20.4 million in 2008 with the intention of reassembling it in India for coal fired Faiana Vaa picked apples with her Room 4 classmates and then made apple crumble. electricity generation. The injunction was lifted when It wasn’t an apple for the teacher so much as an plums, peaches, figs, feijoas, guavas and citrus trees UTL deposited $1 million into the trust account of its apple for every student at Ruakaka School when they about four years ago; and this year the apple trees New Zealand lawyers. The SPI claim will be heard in harvested the bounty from their school’s fruit trees produced a bumper crop. the High Court later this year. recently. “Every class made something different,” says Marsden A was constructed between 1964 and 1966 The school has four apple trees, planted along with Continued on page 4. Continued on page 4. 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I have a small piece Page 7... No further action on illegal chemical dumping mark the end of an important chapter in the history of polished kauri gum given to me by the late Bob of Bream Bay. The Electricity Corporation of New Page 8...Free course to help people cope with chronic Bremner, which I often hold, smell and look at against Zealand, which built Marsden A and Marsden B at the light. illness Ruakaka in the late 1960s has left a pretty big legacy in But I tend to agree with wood turner Gary Sandford Page 9.......Police Report. Ruakaka. The Ruakaka village, the Ruakaka Recreation who brought this issue to my attention. Northland Centre, the Roger Hall Park where our children play Page 10......Bream Bay College Page seems once again to be selling itself short. soccer and the Bream Bay Ambulance station all came The scientist Jonathon Palmer says that these ancient Page 11. ANZAC day in Waipu into existence through the beneficence of ECNZ. buried trees, which carbon dating ages from several Page 12... Waipu rugby hits a speed bump. The power station project also gave a good career to 100,000 years, hold a storehouse of information start to many of the district’s young people through its about what the world was like back then. As climate Page 14...Extras needed for Waipu pageant. apprenticeship scheme. Wouldn’t it be great if there patterns change and we face an uncertain future, this Page 15... A chance to learn more about the Marsden were a company active in Bream Bay today, which information could be more important than any of us Refinery $365 million expansion. could take on 20 young people at a time as ECNZ did realise. in its heyday in Ruakaka. Marilyn Page 15... What's On in Bream Bay? The Marsden Power stations were built in the 1960s Pages 16 & 17....Trades and Services. and early 1970s, using the most up to date technology of that time with the objective of making this country’s THE BREAM BAY NEWS Pages 18 & 19..... Classified advertising. is published by Bream Bay News Ltd. electricity supply more secure. The plan was to take • Address :RD 2, Waipu waste crude oil from the Marsden Point oil refinery • P/Fax (09) 432 0209 • Mbl: 027 432 0070 and convert it to electricity. However when the price • email: [email protected] of oil went up and crude could be sold at a higher price Editor: Marilyn Cox, elsewhere and supplies of natural gas were discovered Accounts: Susan McRae off the Taranaki coast, the future of the two Marsden Production: Geoff Spencer power stations was doomed. Advertising design: Megan Lea I think we should set up an archive with the photographs Printed by Horton Media and memories of the people who were involved in building these stations. 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