09-06-2024, 12:10 PM
https://www.rnz.co.nz/news/political/519...-this-year
The ignorance of Shane Jones and NZF is mind boggling. Climate change deniers, oblivious to the lack of interest in NZ's offshore drilling permits and ignoring the lengthy time line from exploration to production coming on stream.
The intermittency of wind and solar generation methods was recognised by the previous government which was the reason they were investigating the viability of the Lake Onslow pumped hydro scheme. The fact is that solar and onshore wind are the cheapest generation available and can be commissioned very quickly in contrast to throwing investment funds into fossil fuelled methods as the world moves away from burning hydrocarbons.
This coalition government lacks foresight and any understanding of how seriously the rest of the world is starting to take climate change and implementing strategies that fly in the face of that approach is a recipe for loss of trading access into more visionary countries such as much of Europe. NZ's exports are already hobbled due to the extended freight routes we must use to get our produce to market and putting more emissions load onto those exports before they even leave our shores is an idiotic approach.
The ignorance of Shane Jones and NZF is mind boggling. Climate change deniers, oblivious to the lack of interest in NZ's offshore drilling permits and ignoring the lengthy time line from exploration to production coming on stream.
The intermittency of wind and solar generation methods was recognised by the previous government which was the reason they were investigating the viability of the Lake Onslow pumped hydro scheme. The fact is that solar and onshore wind are the cheapest generation available and can be commissioned very quickly in contrast to throwing investment funds into fossil fuelled methods as the world moves away from burning hydrocarbons.
This coalition government lacks foresight and any understanding of how seriously the rest of the world is starting to take climate change and implementing strategies that fly in the face of that approach is a recipe for loss of trading access into more visionary countries such as much of Europe. NZ's exports are already hobbled due to the extended freight routes we must use to get our produce to market and putting more emissions load onto those exports before they even leave our shores is an idiotic approach.