Your Power Team

YOUR POWER TEAM is a Labour/Green/Community Independent group formed to contest the five positions on the Auckland Energy Consumer Trust (AECT) in the October 2012 elections. Our policies included retaining Vector shares in AECT ownership, maintaining your dividend payment, continuing undergrounding of power lines and removing the current "gravy train" of high Trustee fees and expensive consultants so as to increase the funds available for the dividend.

Although we were not successful we came sufficiently close to unseating the five incumbent trustees representing the right wing C and R group to resolve that we will remain in existence and contest the next elections which will be held in October 2015.

We will therefore be maintaining this website, seeking over the next three years to increase public knowledge of the importance of the AECT so as to substantially increase the turnout at the 2015 elections - above the very poor 17 percent turnout in the 2012 elections. We will be monitoring and drawing attention to events at both the AECT and Vector and will seek to hold the C and R trustees fully accountable for acting in the interests of AECT beneficiaries. We will regularly update the site with information on the New Zealand electricity industry, including industry regulation and developments in renewal energy and energy conservation.

You will also find the Vector website a very useful source of information. It is worthwhile subscribing to their regular news update through www.vector.co.nz/news.

Please stay in touch with us as we look forward to the 2015 AECT election. 

 

Your Power Team

Voting starts on 10 October for the election of the 5 trustees of the Auckland Energy Consumer Trust (AECT). You can vote if your name is on the power bill. This election matters.

AECT owns the power lines and pays you, the beneficiaries, a dividend each year. The current C&R trustees of AECT are not acting in your best interests.

Your Power Team is a progressive coalition of experienced candidates with better policies for your AECT.

Post your vote 10-24 October.


@YourPowerTeamNZ

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    What Next For Your Power Team?

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    / December 17, 2012 / Leave a comment
    YOUR POWER TEAM is a Labour/Green/Community Independent group formed to contest the five positions on the Auckland Energy Consumer Trust (AECT) in the October 2012 elections. Our policies included retaining Vector shares in AECT ownership, maintaining the $320 dividend, continuing undergrounding of power lines and removing the current “gravy train” of...

  2. Thank You All for Your Support

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    / October 28, 2012 / Leave a comment
                            Sadly, YOUR POWER TEAM did not get any of our candidates elected. We were close; Glenda Fryer was only 547 votes short of a place on the trust. In fact, there was a swing of 8% away from...

  4. Voter Apathy Controls $2 Billion Vector Asset

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    / October 23, 2012 / Leave a comment
    Media Release, Wednesday, 24 October 2012 With only two days remaining before postal voting closes for New Zealand’s third largest election, 86% of eligible voters have not had their say in who will control shares in their $2 billion power asset, the Vector lines company. Statistics from the Returning Officer...

  5. Social Media Is Too Democratic For Some

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    / October 22, 2012 / Leave a comment
    After an exchange on facebook earlier this weekend, C&R have now closed their public page to comments. The reason? Well, we felt compelled to point out a blatant fabrication on the part of one of the candidates. Read the screenshot below and be your own judge.

  6. AECT secrecy continues claims Your Power Team

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    / October 19, 2012 / Leave a comment
    Media Release 19 October 2012 The continuing secrecy surrounding Auckland Energy Consumer Trust (AECT) expenditures is eroding public confidence in the Trust. “Once again the current C&R trustees have failed to meet public expectations of transparency and proper use of Trust moneys” ‘Your Power Team’ candidate Richard Leckinger said today....

  8. Press Release: Your Power Team Lodge Official Complaint with AECT Returning Officer

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    / October 16, 2012 / Leave a comment
    The five candidates on the Your Power Team ticket have lodged a complaint against the incumbent C&R candidates with the Returning Officer for the Auckland Energy Consumer Trust (AECT) election, which is currently being conducted by postal ballot. The ticket of Green, Labour and community independent candidates claim that a...


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