by the former American parent of Waste Management. We also drew to the OIC’s attention the dreadful record of Archer Daniels Midland in the US (a whole book has been written about one particular ADM

It currently has $A871 billion under management in infrastructure that, as it likes to say, "a hundred million people rely on every day". Thames Water alone has 1.5 million wastewater customers. It was

raft of low standards for resource and environmental management, especially waste disposal (for an update on its very abusive human rights and environmental record see: www.uk.oneworld.net/article/view/

What a waste of bloody money!” ■ Citing the sorts of examples given The same thing was seen in the af- by Mark simply gilds the lily of what termath of the 2011 kil er quake in the NZ military

to attempt to do so due to high po- KUS plan a waste of money that “In particular, the Tomahawks and tential costs. Of course, these sys- ‘doesn’t make sense. There’s going to be no actual

Sage when she declined OIO consent in regard to a waste pond she considered an environmental risk. Now she is no longer Minister for Land Information, it appears Labour will let OceanaGold have whatever

management fees’, claims of ‘massive operating expenditure’ and tax losses”. A characteristic UK example is road construction (the PPP activity most likely to inspire the National government)

acquired in 2005, and the waste firm EnviroWaste Services Ltd, acquired in December 2006. CVC has become one of the most controversial private equity compan s in ie the U.K. as a result of its purchase

Scarily, in the US they want more financial waste though. There is a push to privatise the delivery of social security payments, despite privately-run defined contribution pensions costing an annual average

no good crisis should go to waste. One company's Covid disaster is another company's opportunity. Bargains are to be had everywhere - including wide-open New Zealand. *Milton Friedman, 1912-2006, the