Thousands protest fast track bill

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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.

I'm not so sure its ignorance; I suspect they know full well what the consequences of this are likely to be but as long as there's money to be made, they don't really care about what their descendants might have to deal with in the future.
The ultimate selfishness, really....impossible to comprehend people like that.

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the rest of the world is starting to wake up to the climate scam

i have lived next to the sea all my life and guess what.......................................................high tide hasnt changed height

the planet is warming....since when? its actually cooled since roman times

Mmm hmm - & all those wildfires in the northern hemisphere last summer... Imagination, were they?


https://joint-research-centre.ec.europa....3-09-08_en

https://www.france24.com/en/europe/20230...mperatures

https://www.worldwildlife.org/pages/why-...ce-melting