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Salient. Victoria University Students Newspaper. Volume 37, No 26. October 2, 1974

The Bluff Aluminium Smelter and Lake Manapouri

The Bluff Aluminium Smelter and Lake Manapouri

The Bluff smelter is totally foreign controlled by Japanese, British and American interests. At present the smelter uses 10% of N.Z.'s power and pays one quarter the price charged to the N.Z. householder. In 1973 the N.Z. consumer subsidised the smelter by $11 million. Lake Manapouri, which was saved from destruction by a massive nationwide public campaign, is still in danger of being raised. It is maintained within its natural limits solely by public vigilance and a Labour Party election promise.