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
Another thing normies in the normie community misunderstand is light rail is an essential feature of transforming transportation energy.
“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.
another crook telling us what we can and cant do
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.
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.
The banning of oil & gas exploration in NZ waters will, in due course, increase our carbon footprint.
This is a key problem with the Greens – technical illiteracy
Still assuming $100 per barrel oil prices my boy.
I’ll let you in on a little secrete. We’ll continue using fossil fuels for fertilises, some forms of air travel, public transport, and perhaps the military (GDP permitting). But the combustion engine will be the biggest losers
I’d be interested to know how exactly that will happen. However, @Andrew you don’t have a very impressive record of responding to questions. Your MO is usually to drop some scat and then disappear.
Anyway, back to the carbon footprint, crude oil found around NZ doesn’t wind up in our cars as its grade isn’t suitable – so, despite having local oil we use overseas oil. No gain there.
As for gas, the oil companies systematically undermined the transition to CNG that could have meant we had cleaner burning local gas in our vehicles because there were fewer bucks in it for them. Now they bleat about wanting gas exploration. Further, if we want to burn our own gas (a lower carbon footprint, you suggest?) why do we convert a third of into methanol and export it for the benefit of a Canadian multinational?
I’ll explain:
We have several industries that are reliant on gas plus about 100,000 houses that are heated by it.
If we run out of gas we have two options:
1. We import the gas. This requires a LNG ship to transport the gas from another country and that ship will burn bunker oil to propel it.
2. We shut down the industries that use the gas and import their products instead. eg glass bottles. Apart from the economic destruction we will suffer, the energy expended in importing, say bottles, is even worse than if we import the gas.
And what’s the alternative to heating those homes with gas? Electricity? When the future involves us moving to electric vehicles that will add load to the grid? Or are you in favour of damming a couple more rivers?
You really need to think these things through.
Iv thought it through…
Are you actually capable of thinking it through?
1. Point one is like, so what…, we import LNG like every other advanced economy that doesn’t have a secure supply of its own.
2. New Zealand had a small auto industry until it all got shut down. The reat of your commentary is just ass, confused and an illustration that you don’t really know what to do.
Once upon a time New Zealand didn’t have an Internet or other advanced technology because selling butter to ourselves alone wouldn’t have even covered the R&D costs let alone packaging, promotions and sales. But when we floated the kiwi dollar we could exchange paper for the things we wanted and a whole bunch of new resources and industries popped up.
Again if we are to allocate resources into renewables then the only way to do that is by setting a price on carbon just like we did with the kiwi dollar.
Indeed, not necessarily every action lowers carbon emissions in total and it’s not a simple call. There will be some actions that appear counter-intuitive.
Unfortunately, one of the core things we will need to do is lower consumption of materials and energy. Nobody wants to hear that in a GDP growth obsessed society.
It’s called a quandary – choose to take a hit now to protect a worse state later or get a bigger hit later. Humans aren’t very good at doing that and political systems like we have are even worse in those conditions.
While we split hairs and bicker, the earth absorbs the heat of four Hiroshima bombs every second.
If we’re running out of gas – let’s stop shipping a third of it overseas. And, we’re going to have to use fewer bottles – regardless.
Andrew your analysis assumes that we continue to live wastefully as we do now, a proposition which will speed up the destruction of conditions on the planet that we need to exist.
Our only option regarding energy is to reduce our energy consumption and live much more simply.
That will happen anyway if we continue the way we are at present, but changes will be forced on us through a number of mechanism beyond our control.
Such a crash will have widespread negative consequences including depleted resources, drastic short term reduction of human population and environmental degradation of habitat for most species.
Harvesting energy and using energy both require Non Renewable Natural Resource consumption from a pool of rapidly shrinking Non Renewable Natural Resources that we are consuming faster than ever before, because of our increased energy harvesting and consumption.
Fossil fuel may seem relatively cheap for the miners, but critically expensive for humans when its real cost is taken into account. It is a toxic approach to harvesting energy.
Humans thrived before fossil fuels were harvested, but our numbers were lower and the Non Renewable Natural Resources relatively intact.
Then we depleted wood supply in parts of Europe so turned to fossil fuel and substituted that as a main source of energy in place of energy harvested from using animal power and simple devices to harvest wind and water.
Materials for those simple devices were from renewable sources drawing on very minimal NRNR consumption. Since using fossil fuels and later nuclear, we have consumed approximately 75% of those NRNRs, in a short period of about 250 years. To ignore the effect of this consumption is indicative of ignorance.
We have an energy problem of our own creation. Human life has become energy intensive so unsustainable.
“The banning of oil & gas exploration in NZ waters will, in due course, increase our carbon footprint.”
Your problem is rhetorical illiteracy. If you make a statement like that you need to provide an argument to back it up.
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.
A ‘Māori Climate Commissioner’, quick call Willie.
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
https://www.dailymail.co.uk/sciencetech/article-6667057/Check-compass-The-magnetic-north-pole-move.html Dont Worry Be Happy
I personally have converted my gas barbecue to run on kindness
A steak can be prepared medium rare in about 3 hours with a good cuddle
The steak should be tenderised beforehand with a good talking to about colonisation.
Yeah right Andy.
You have to get the mood right or it will be a rare occasion.
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