The funding freeze on Radio NZ because the National Government hate them for asking hard questions is looking more and more dangerous with every passing natural disaster.
It’s not just our Democracy that National are mauling by freezing Radio NZ funding, it’s our actual safety.
Weren’t we all jarringly reminded just how essential Radio NZ are in a natural disaster this week?
The second the event occurs, you are tuning into National Radio because they have the authority.
They have deep connections with senior civil service people at the frontlines to give the best and most detailed information in as close to real time as possible.
If we accept that we are about to face some of the worst and most extreme natural disasters because of the speed and momentum of global warming, then freezing Radio NZs funding which hampers their ability to cover these events endangers every single one of us.
Let’s see something positive come out of this Earthquake and bloody well fund Radio NZ properly!
Given how sleazy and business like, in a corrupt way, our government is and their love of manipulating the media and turning any opportunity into a win for the business that is the National Party, is it too much to think pressure has not already been bought to bear on RNZ to just be more positive with National, maybe get rid of John Campbell, just like Mark did, in return for more funding? Because if it has and it wouldn’t be National if they hadn’t tried it on, good on whoever it is in RNZ who is holding out!
And of course National have plenty of form for this and the latest, Tom Hunt tweet reported on 09 November 2016:
“Paula Bennett’s press secretary called a colleague asking her to change my story to make it more Gov-friendly”. http://www.stuff.co.nz/dominion-post/news/86091620/depressed-wellington-mans-impossible-search-for-a-suitable-home …
“Bring RNZ in from the cold!” it is time to reignite the campaign to unfreeze RNZ funding, it is pretty obvious a lot of torys count on and value RNZ too, so the campaign needs to be reignited and aimed specifically at Nat voters too
an example of why this is necessary is the teachers recent victory over Hekia Parata’s latest Bulk Funding try, the teachers unions used democracy and community involvement–a nationwide series of 50 meetings and involved parents–if you don’t think more than a few teachers and parents vote Nat you are fooling yourself!
100% Tiger mountain.
Further to the above GNS is not staffed on weekends or evenings because of funding cuts. This is one reason why there was not clear information re the tsunami possibility.
True, Janine.
But you can bet that the PM’s Dept is well resourced, funded, and staffed!!
t will Radio NZ investigate the connection between NZ Oil & Gas “exploration techniques” of carrying out of “ultra low frequencies sonic booms” which is another form of fracturing” of the east coast shelf and surrounding areas at the same time of the earthquakes that appeared during that time of the special secretive fracturing procedure’s being kept top secret from the public of NZ?
So is this why the warships rushed to quell any uprising they may have thought we may have had should we have found out the real reason behind the cause of our real earthquake swarm’s now upon us ALL??
NO WONDER JOHN KEY IS SHITTING HIMSELF TRYING TO SOFT TALKN US ALL BUT WE ARE NOT FOOLS ARE WE?
Radio NZ must firstly find who owns NZ Oil & Gas and any connections to the fracturing of the recent Kekerengu Fault at the coast and the other faultlines GNS has identified below as they and other have been involved and have suffered since with what appears to have had up to 10m of slip.
If me a simple citizen can find this stuff why cant al our Media do this in the interests of our collective public health & safety what a sham Now we have among the MSM Martyn.
CALL THIS SCANDAL THE KEY QUAKE WATER SCANDAL EH?
GIVE THIS TO WINSTON TO DEAL WITH ALSO MATE. HE HAD THE OIL & GAS COMPANY LEAVE HIS NORTHLLAND REGION SO HE MUST KNOW SOMETHING ABOUT THE AFFECTS OF THIS INVASSIVE LOW FREQUENCY FRACTURING PROCESS TO EXPLORE FOR OIL AND GAS.
http://www.geonet.org.nz/
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M7.8 Kaikoura Earthquake: Latest updates
We are getting more information from our science reconnaissance teams and are sifting through the mountains of data to develop a better picture of this earthquake. We have new information about the fault ruptures, and have initial estimates on which faults were involved.
Multiple ruptures
Rapid field reconnaissance indicates that multiple faults have ruptured:
· Kekerengu Fault at the coast – appears to have had up to 10m of slip
· Newly identified fault at Waipapa Bay
· Hope Fault – seaward segment – minor movement
· Hundalee Fault
In the simplest case an earthquake is a rupture on a single fault plane.
What we are finding in New Zealand is that quite a few of our larger earthquakes involve jumping from rupture on one plane to another in a complex sequence. We first saw that with the Darfield Sept 2010 EQ where multiple segments ruptured together as a single earthquake. We appear to have seen this again overnight.
In terms of what might happen next: The scenarios provide an overview of how we see this earthquake sequence evolving over the next few days to one month. What is on the web page is our best information that we have to hand at the moment. As our science information flows in over the next few days we expect that information may evolve.
ShakeMap for the M7.5 Kaikoura Earthquake.
A word about the Moon
Some people have raised concerns about a link with the supermoon. In large groups earthquakes exhibit slight associations with lunar cycles, but this is not reliable for forecasting. We have two tides a day throughout New Zealand and at any one place there is no clear association in location. The occurrence of the full moon around the globe does not allow us to say how big, when and where any earthquake might be.
Long term earthquake rates
There were more large earthquakes in a period of several decades prior to about 1950, and it has been relatively quiet since then. Since the M7.8 in July 2009 in Fiordland, that quiet period appears to be over. The reason we had a tsunami generated by an earthquake with an epicentre onshore is that there was deformation further down the fault plane offshore.
Wellington area
Wellington area faults and the subduction interface beneath Wellington are captured in the probability table and the scenarios given there. We do not have any evidence of an impending large earthquake of a similar size in Wellington at this stage but we cannot rule this out. We cannot make a calculation to predict this, but the chance of a further shock in the Wellington area has increased somewhat since the Kaikoura earthquake.
Why were our magnitudes different from the USGS: About magnitude variability
We have changed the New Zealand local magnitude for this earthquake to M7.8.
Felt it? Tell us about it.
Our Felt Detailed report for this earthquake is now available. Please help us by filling out this report to help our long term research programme.
Looking forward
We will be continuing to gather information about this earthquake for some time. We will continue to keep updating information as we learn more about this earthquake.
Be prepared – both physically and mentally
Beyond physical preparedness is the emotional and psychological support for these earthquakes. The All Right? Hotline (0800-777-846) is a great resource where you can talk about any anxieties or concerns that you have regarding the earthquakes.
Want to know more about you can get ready? Check out the Ministry of Civil Defence and Emergency Management’s website for more information.
Map of the aftershocks associated with the M7.5 Kaikoura Earthquake.
When was oil exploration last carried out near to Hanmer Springs, Seddon, Kaikoura?
http://www.ogj.com/articles/2016/10/nzog-beach-gain-extension-for-barque-permit-off-new-zealand.html
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NZOG, Beach gain extension for Barque permit off New Zealand
MELBOURNE, Oct. 18
10/18/2016
By Rick Wilkinson
OGJ Correspondent
New Zealand Oil & Gas Ltd. and Beach Energy Ltd. have been granted an extension of time for their Canterbury basin permit PEP 52717 offshore New Zealand’s south island. The permit contains the prospective Barque prospect.
The joint venture now has until Apr. 10, 2018, to commit to drilling an exploration well, and until June 10, 2020, to actually drill the well if they go ahead with the program.
Barque has the potential to hold 530 million bbl of oil—twice the size of the major Maui discovery offshore Taranaki basin that has been on stream since the 1970s.
New Zealand’s Petroleum& Minerals Department decided to allow the permit extension in light of the downturn in activity in the country as a result of the fall in global oil prices.
NZOG and Beach each have equal interest in the permit. NZOG has said it is in talks with potential farm-in partners with the ability to operate the large deepwater prospect.
The extension announcement, however, coincided with a note from Norway’s Statoil AS, which has pulled out of the remote Reinga basin in Northland, atop the North Island, because it believes the chances of making an oil discovery are too low to continue with its program.
“the warships rushed to quell any uprising…”
Are you a friend of Brian Tamaki?
There are plenty of good arguments against any fossil fuel exploration or new extraction without the need to point to induced earthquakes. There are claims on the Standard that although the accumulated research does point to fracking being able to induce earthquakes, seismic testing can’t. It is incredibly distressing and disruptive to marine wildlife though.
https://thestandard.org.nz/te-ikaroa-seismic-testing-presents-significant-risk-to-east-coast/#comment-1261987
Great piece. I have a petition running to increase Radio NZ’s funding https://www.tinyurl.com/jg9e42t . 8 years of frozen funding is too long and they are going under!
I watch RNZ’s YouTube channel every day. I don’t even consider watching the news on television … let alone using my television for anything other than an extra computer monitor.
Heaps of ‘every day people’ know old school media mediums only serve up propaganda and irrelevant slop. I think richer people avail themselves with this garbage because it comforts them. Younger generations see that the narrative of television journalism does not reflect their reality or mover NZ towards becoming a better society.
Sooner, rather than later the internet will give a death blow to television journalism, even now ‘every day people’ are educating themselves in civics and often successfully battling against the propaganda. With alternative media exponentially expanding over the next few years, its likely new internet based startups will become the go to for op-ed content.
Didn’t I read somewhere on one of these blogposts that while RNZ has had it’s funding frozen since 2008 that the PM department’s budget has doubled in the same period??
Here’s latest video going out around the world:
http://galacticconnection.com/whoa-powerful-new-zealand-earthquake-lifted-sea-floor-two-meters-through-sand-video/?mc_cid=76b8492fbe&mc_eid=992f5a3916
National’s under-funding of Radio NZ is nothing short of irresponsible. Funding decisions should be left to a neutral third-party, much like the Remuneration Authority decides on politician’s salary increases. Otherwise, constant under-funding is nothing short of political interference.
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