Saving money and the environment

When I ran for Council I promised that we would get the decarbonisation of our pools back into the Long-Term Plan. On Thursday I kept that promise. We’re going to reduce our carbon emissions by 2,916 tons and save $10 million dollars over the next 10 years in the process.

In FY21 we used 48,500 Gigajoules of natural gas to heat our pools. But what does that actually look like?

By itself, decarbonising our swimming pools will reduce our total carbon emissions by 6%, and when you add that to all of the other initiatives in our Long-Term Plan you’re looking at a reduction of 44%. A massive win for people and the environment.

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The vote was “Agree to allocate $14m from the Climate Resilience Fund to degasify the pool network.”

For: Mayor Whanau, Councillor Chung, Deputy Mayor Foon, Councillor Matthews, Councillor Rogers, Councillor O'Neill, Councillor Free, Councillor Apanowicz, Councillor Calvert, Pouiwi Hohaia, Councillor McNulty, Councillor Wi Neera, Councillor Abdurahman, Pouiwi Kelly

Against: Councillor Pannett, Councillor Brown, Councillor Randle, Councillor Young