So, Māoris' water rights are both recognized, and respected, towards both the generations, and distributions, of hydroelectricity in New Zealand 😃😃😃😃😃.

Decarbonisation is a lie created and perpetrated by the cabal of elites in order to enrich themselves, and bring in a destructive environment for the people of the world in order to flilp a switch and reduce population. Iwi need to wake up and realise that they are a significant part of the move to destroy their world as much as ours.

Keith Turner was part of the cabal that devastated the number of employees of ECNZ and its subsidiaries. Couldn't run a company to match the staff he was entrusted with, and only destroyed.

My father worked on this and i vaguely remember living in the camp

He needs to push it at the front of the car! I'll bet Mother Nature knows that too 😂.

Now, in order for the wind turbines to generate electricity, there has to be the ever-present wind velocities; of which is easier said than done in global warming-ridden Planet Earth.

Great just great for me and you and new zealand

Fascinating! And they managed to make this complete documentary without using "Damn the dam" on the soundtrack. Those of us who were aware of environmental issues back in the day remember the societal shift that this project caused. What we take for granted today.......

To THE HR UR EMPLOYEE CHINMAY CHAPALGAOKAR IS AN FRAUNDULENT EMOLOYEEE 😮 ASK HIM AND HIS FATHER TO REFUND MY MONEY BACK

Fab RioTinto Aluminium smelter gets a sweet heart secret deal for electric power, whilst Kiwi workers are over charged.

But tell me babe, how do you store excess wind turbine electrical generation for use when the wind isn't blowing? Any pumped storage in Wellington? Any large lithium or sodium battery arrays? Any cryogenic air storage? Until renewable energy is dispatchable, like hydro ore geothermal or fossil fuel thermal, or nuclear, it is only have the solution.

Lake levels have remained the same because the massive protests *stopped* the lake level being raised by 100 feet (pre metric) and drowning everything around the place. As it was damage was done by stopping the normal lake levels ebb and flow. Nice puff piece Meridian Energy.

Sadly, there is no way we could build this now.

My father Earle Nunn was on construction from start to finish mid 1960 -1971 he lived in the new hydro site with mum and my sister two years before I was born, Dad was a operator at the station as well, I remember going to work with Dad and sleeping in the rag bins down by the generators, we moved to the Hydro Village after the Construction from 1971 to 1979 in October that year we moved to Christchurch, I was 6 years and dad continued to work for NZED, Alstrom, Transfield Services before his retirement 2015 after 50 years of service to NZ Electricity.

I go to kings college in nz and I am 🥷🏿😶‍🌫️🧬🧌🩻🫨🐐🦠

We are still waiting for a Tourist Trip dedicated to New Zealand's Greatest Engineering Project as well as a Museum of Artifacts stored at Manapouri... but not indefinitely.

so very interesting ,i thank you for a fantastic doco

Very good doco. Thanks. Loved hearing the old tunnellers recounting their experiences. Our parents took us to visit the system in the early 70’s. Really look forward to a return visit soon👍

The Wind Mills Ruin the Landscape

Maori women and men are just completely indistinguishable, huh?

Incredible.

Who edited this video to seem like it is a funeral?

Well Done . We did a trip to Doubtful Sound from Manapouri by boat and coach over Wilmott Pass in 2023. Would have loved to do a tour of the power station this doco gives a great insight into the whole Manapouri Hydro scheme.

Someone singing and babbling in the background while people are speaking, combined with this sacred music, makes for awful sound design. It’s difficult to focus on the content.

❤❤refreshing to see something like this. I wish them the best of luck.

I loved my time at White Hill, once a week.

Good for career prospects. Gives the youth a direction. Thank you for posting

Not sure how I missed not knowing there was a reunion to celebrate the building of Manapouri - I worked on the original West Arm permanent installation, and returned four times after that for upgrades to the station - including while the second tailrace was being constructed, but we were so busy I never really got to see what they were up too, we were on a tight timeframe while upgrading each generator's control and instrumentation - and finally giving each unit an auto sync capability which they never had until then. I have lived at Te Anau, Manapouri, Manapouri Hydro Construction Village and West Arm during my stints with Utah Construction and Mining, Wilkins and Davies - Wismer and Becker,(GEC) Alstom and so on. I think I still have my UCM "Boat Pass" and a timesheet stashed away somewhere. I remember the first start of Unit 1 (NZED) when the Earths were left connected in the VT Cubicle, we had to walk up the access tunnel to evacuate because of the smoke and much later an inadvertent CO2 dump into a Stator Room caused us to evacuate!

WTF is this about? Wasted time watching it.

Very good, just the facts, documentary. Refreshing.

Lol if your reading this recognize neko lol thats me

Mana where ? Thanks jacinda.

It's so convenient to decarbonize NZ with population of only 5mil. across the 100k sq. mile of land mass that is rich in renewable energy resources such as wind and hydro (I reckon there are more sheeps than people there). Glad to know that Kiwis are well equiped with climate change awareness and its know how remedy based on what natural resources are available there 🇦🇺.

Why did lifting the lake level mean losing Manapouri?

They should have had bilbo and Gandalf as passengers but not referred to them…just act like normal passengers…👍🏾👍

Its New Zealand.

Just put the carbon output in a 3rd world country where they mine for the batteries. Great idea!

Impressive !

Happy Birthday 🎉

Great Video, I remember going to Benmore when it was being built, thanks for sharing

Fantastic ! what a great project, that NZ can truly be proud of.

Great Video Meridan, I have always had mixed feelings about this project, manapouri is one of the truly pristine environments in NZ, the power was used exclusively by the Aluminum Smelter at Bluff, to refine a product which was imported into NZ and the refined Product was exported overseas (mainly) The Smelter owners always bullied the Govt with closing the plant if we didn't give them cheap power, which eventually they have done! It was part of the Muldoon Govt "Think Big" projects which aimed to "industrialise" NZ! I know that Manapouri may be used to produce "Hydrogen" in the future! It would be interesting to see some investment analysis as to the merits of the project in hindsight! Thanks for sharing

WHEN earth gets its next carrington event equivalent, ( thats not an "if", same goes fore the overdue main alpine fault going pop). will the conductive components in the generating hall be deep enough to be immune to a solar killshot that would instantly put earth back to preindustrial advancement. What if any measures are meridian taking to protect systems from this inevitability? Dont buy any power, would be yours if i did, Im happily off grid and love it .cheers for the hydro history guys! ❤ From twizel.

Fascinating. Big regrets i missed a chance to see the hall as a visiting guest of a mate who helped manage the facility. Manapouri, is next level stunning. ❤

This brings back great memories. After the completion, the accommodation was given to the then Education Board for schools to camp at. I was with the second school to camp there, such an awesome time. Going on the launch from Te Anau across the lake, being met by lots of kea and bussing over the Wilmont pass. Rowing out in dingys and setting lines for tuna. We actually caught one and had it for breakfast. Tramping up the hanging valley with moss a foot or so deep. The waterfalls (Helena) would magically spring up all over the place when it rained. A once in a life time camp and my children and grand children have also been lucky enough enjoy this part of the world. Great memories.

My father placed the steel in this Dam.

Love the old school ,put me in those times any day

Fantastic news. Congratulations to everyone involved. Makes me glad to be a Meridian customer.

That's fantastic, well done New Zealand scientists and Meridian Energy.