But the stroke of luck ended swiftly when the $326,000 business case was rejected by government. Information given to Stuff by MPDC showed the feasibility study and business case by Auckland consultancy firm Resource Coordination Partnership altogether cost taxpayers $326,000. "We've still got the business case, so there may be things out there that we can take for later on. "You have to have that business case and information done at some stage anyway... so I don't believe it's a total loss. He didn't think the project of a $21 million gas pipeline was too ambitious either.

Source: Stuff June 28, 2020 01:07 UTC