It won't be long before this country is widely regarded as a banana republic. Its bad enough that a single landowner can hold the power supply of our largest city to ransome, but now we have to put up with farmers whinging about compensation!? Surely the price they paid for their land would have reflected the fact that there were pylons on it. And if they already owned the land when the pylons were built, then they should have made a more compelling case for compensation at the time. Demanding money years after the event makes them no better than the likes of Hone Harawera, bleating about what society owes them, and not once pausing to think about the big picture.
Good on ya steve meier!listen to them crying about losing power..thats not your fault..they will try to shift blame on the farmers though..transpower are a joke
How many would like strangers wandering on their property and destroying trees. He did not ask for the power lines to be put there. It is purely a transpower problem, and they are just bullies.