Māori Climate Commissioner: The Petroleum Exploration and Production Association of New Zealand (PEPANZ) are not the future

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Māori Climate Commissioner, Donna Awatere Huata, says the new advertising campaign starting tonight (Monday) by the Petroleum Exploration and Production Association of New Zealand (PEPANZ) to convince New Zealander’s to begin future oil exploration again is nothing more than propaganda for Big Oil.
 
“One of the few bold measures this Government has done to combat climate change, banning future oil exploration, is being attacked by Big Oil who are desperate to hide the fact they are now a sunset industry”. 
 
“The planet simply does not have the luxury to continue oil exploration, the sooner we divest into sustainable forms of energy, the better. Unfortunately for PEPANZ they are simply no longer part of the equation to save the planet from climate change”.
 
“Pretending to believe we can continue using oil in the future is a dangerous delusion we can not afford. You don’t treat lung cancer by continuing to purchase packets of cigarettes for future use”. 

Donna Awatere Huata

Māori Climate Commissioner

21 COMMENTS

  1. Another thing normies in the normie community misunderstand is light rail is an essential feature of transforming transportation energy.

  2. “The planet simply does not have the luxury to continue oil exploration,”

    Exploring for more oil is hardly a luxury. It is a criminal waste of shrinking material and environmental resources.

  4. There is a good doco on Netflix at the moment called “islands of the future’.
    NZ maybe wise to take on board the philosophy of this programme.

  5. We sit on an island of coal but due to the Greens we no longer mine it but we still use it to generate power . Instead of getting it local we import from Indonesia so add transport to the environment footprint. We cannot stop looking for oil and gas until we have a substitute especially gas which powers so much of industry.

  6. We are in the progress trap from which there is no escape.

    Not using oil and gas now = no industrial civilisation now.

    Using oil and gas now = no industrial civilisation in a decade or two.

  7. We need to ban the import of ICE cars right now, so that by around 2030 or so the bulk of our ICE fleet will have been dispatched to the crushers’ yards.

    • What about also banning the importation of diesel trucks? After all, individually they are much more damaging than cars.

      Reducing speed limits would be relatively easy compared to your suggestion and would send a clear signal (as well as reducing imports of oil and reducing emissions). However, our politicians are so worse-than-useless they can’t even manage that!

      So, it’s full speed ahead from present day disaster into absolute catastrophe, both globally and locally, as is clear form the nearly continuous flow of ‘ugly’ scientific data, e.g.

      Daily CO2
      February 4, 2019: 412.55 ppm
      February 4, 2018: 407.32 ppm

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