United Future leader Peter Dunne has made public Wellington City Council’s list of 808 earthquake prone buildings. The list appears on the United Future website. on 3 March 2011 United Future’s website gave the following press release Ohariu MP and UnitedFuture leader Peter Dunne today placed Wellington City Council’s list of earthquake-prone Wellington buildings on…
Following on from yesterday’s post Christchurch Quake a Tale of Three Cities – More Help Needed in Eastern Suburbs we’d like to continue to raise awareness of the plight of the people of eastern Christchurch. Orion power company said this morning that New Brighton residents will start getting electricity supplies back from tonight, nine days after the quake. According…
Whilst the world’s media has been focusing on the rubble of the Christchurch CBD the story of the inhabitants of the eastern suburbs has gone largely untold and ignored. For 50,000-100,000 people their lives have increasingly become those of refugees. Please read this, written by blogger Peter Hyde, and help to put the message out…
News reports are saying that there are questions arising over the stability of the CTV building that collapsed with horrendous loss of life in last week’s Christchurch earthquake. Among the dead and missing are a number of international students in the King’s Education College which was also in the building. The Mainichi Daily News reported…
A large and sharp earthquake rattled Wellington, the capital city of New Zealand at 10.07 pm today. The 4.5 magnitude quake was widely felt in the North Island and caused alarm among many people in the city. Fortunately the quake was very short lived and isn’t thought to have caused much damage. It was centred…
E2NZ.org 