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Originally Posted by multiweb
Well the argument at the time was that he was using a portion of the of the stream that was powering a bigger hydro-plant down the river so in essence the plant was getting less of it. I know it's BS but it's the law. EDF is a massive govt subsidised corporation. Would be like a Windows end user suing Microsoft.  Now I can see something like this happening here in the future with everyone who got a gvt rebate (or not) for installing a water tank. I can garantee you that one day we will be taxed for water consumption coming from our own water collection arguing that it didn't make it to the storm water network to the catchment or storage area therefore we're using it and should (will) pay for it.  |
You could easily beat that...what about all the other users of the stream. They'd degrade the performance of the plant as well, why not charge them too. The laws can be changed, all the people have to do is make the government change them. Complain loud and long enough, add a few "threats" in the mix and they'll come around to seeing it your way.
They do that here with water already, in QLD. They charge farmers for the water use out of their own dams on their properties. It's basically like they have a meter on every rain cloud in the state that empties into a private dam. They even charge for surface runoff into dams!!!. It'll only be a matter of time before they do it to individuals in towns and cities.
This is precisely why people need to get educated and a lot wiser to what these jokers are doing. It's also why people need to become a lot more active in the running of their communities and not sit back hoping someone else is going to do all the hard work first. It's precisely because the pollies know they can get away with doing what they do because people won't do anything about it, that things likes this happen.