Act Party will reinstate gas exploration
The Act Party says it will reverse the ban on new oil and gas exploration if it is part of the next government.
Ummmmm…
Seymour says ACT MP no longer believes climate change a hoax
ACT leader David Seymour is adamant one of his senior MPs no longer believes climate change is a hoax or that people who think the planet is warming are “nut jobs”.
Seymour insists Mark Cameron does not believe many of the things he used to regularly tweet about, shortly before entering Parliament.
Cameron, a dairy farmer turned politician, is one of ACT’s top MPs, ranked at number seven on the list for this year’s election.
Seymour wasn’t keen to talk about Cameron’s controversial Twitter takes from shortly before he joined ACT, like that climate change is a farce, and that only nut jobs believe the planet is warming.
…ok, firstly, last decade ACT claimed “New Zealand is not warming. There is no warming trend since 1970, and the slight warming trend since 1950 is not statistically significant.”If it were to warm moderately, we would likely benefit in terms of land-based production, human health and reduced heating bills,“, so Cameron being a denier isn’t exactly surprising right?
Secondly, what’s the point defending a climate denier when ACTs environmental policies are effectively in denial that there’s any problem in the first place?
Allowing oil and gas exploration is the exact wrong thing we should be doing as the Planet now dangerously over heats!
ACT may argue they aren’t a party of climate deniers, but they sure as fuck promote policy that is climate delusional!
Fuck is New Zealand in for a grim morning if these wide eyed ideologues get their hands on the levers of power.
You may believe your vote doesn’t mean anything, but in this election it really fucking does!
This is Darth Vader and his Dancing Stormtroopers taking over the Kindergarten level bad.
ACT scored 18% in the latest Roy Morgan Poll.
Be very afraid.
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How much oil and gas did we no use by stopping producing it ourselves ? we did change gas to Indonesian coal in some powerstations , so that can’t be good
Agreed. The irony is so thick, you can cut it with a knife.
We stop buying/using our coal in the best or worst possible example of virtue signalling to buy inferior grade Indonesian coal, that’s has to be shipped here from to run power stations. In part to run Michael Woods subsudised Tesla’s!
FFS, I feel so much more righteous…not!
Exactly the point I was going to make.
We have had uneducated children running things for years now and the country is effed!! Not convinced about NACTS ability to do better but they can’t do worse. I take it as a good sign that Luxon didn’t remove the top rate of tax and that despite the debated efficacy, there was logic to his tax reforms (Although IMO a 50% deductibility to interest payments on second housing would have struck a better balance).
We stopped issuing new permits but have we stopped selling from our existing fields? I don’t think you could say our oil exports have ever put us at the top of the OECD.
Exactly and why if producing our own oil was the great panacea for cheaper fuel was it the complete opposite?
FFS, I feel so much more righteous…not!
Its a bit more complicated than that, although you are correct, it only accounts for a small amount of balance of payments. How about all the imported MATERIALS for green electricity expansion? Imported coal? Various other issues arising. Not as simple as balance of payments on oil and gas.
The vast bulk of climate change emitting gasses are generated offshore.
It makes no difference what little old NZ with its less than 1 percent global contribution does or does not do.
Climate change is very real and we will suffer just as small island nations in the Pacific will.
We should be joining with other island nations to lobby the wealthy industrial nations who are and have caused climate change for reparations to adapt not prostrate our economy on the alter of virtue signaling pointlessness.
Infantile stupidity, Jack.
There must be over 100 small-emitter countries like NZ, and if they all use your silly cop-out, the total effect will be just as bad as one of your ‘wealthy, industrial nations’.
You remind of a grotty little schoolboy saying that the plastic bottle he is throwing out of the car window won’t make any real difference.
Explain how even if we completely eliminate our less than 1% of global emissions how that turns around the effects of climate change?
You do realise the effects of climate change don’t stop at the border don’t you?
Your argument applies only if all the other small countries are as stupid and short-sighted as you yourself are.
As I thought. You cant explain how ruining our economy before there is sufficient renewable capacity to achieve a less than 1 percent reduction in global C02 is anything other than virtue signalling.
Stupid again. Nobody has yet ruined your economy – your own wishful thinking. The excuse of demanding less than 1% reduction in global CO2 is sheer hypocrisy. You don’t want to act.
Well, you can be proud of signaling no virtues at all.
What happened to promoting ‘Fortress New Zealand’ where we are less reliant upon energy imports and exposed to international markets? In that context, greater energy independence (and revenue) are pretty compelling.
If we have deposits it makes sense to me to us them .We would save foreign currently and save the power used to bring the gas and oil too us . As someone else has noted it is not like by not using our own gas we are using less so there is a lot of hypocritic in not drilling or mining . This seems to be Labour’s calling card of saying one think and doing another like with race .They say they are the party of the Maori but then do not consult them on important matters just assuming they know best.
Every Kiwi could drive a V8 12 hours per day and it would not have any effect on climate change. We are so small. The fake self righteous see what they want to see. Ignore homeless kids but use a paper straw.
We stopped offshore oil and gas exploration. We stopped mining
We now use more imported fuel and more dirty imported coal than ever before
We are trying to stop farming and food production. Then we’ll have the same or more food being produced by other countries who are far less energy efficient than we are
We’re going to be 2nd last for growth in the OECD next year
Anyone beginning to see a picure here?
Imported coal is cheaper than mining it ourselves, much like how the car industry went and clothing is imported from China. Australian rump steak can be cheaper than our very own.
You seem to want your cake and eat it.
By the way look at the quality trade deals Labour has achieved and then you will have a more balanced opinion.
I suspect a lot of the “green” types, genuinely believe that a local reduction of fossil fuel use will directly impact our local climate. The fact of course is that the entire planet shares the same air, so even if we were to cut emissions to literally zero here, we will at best have a 0.1% effect on the global total levels. So yes, NZ’s entire “zero net emissions by 2030” policy is a pure virtue signal, that can only have a vanishingly small effect on the climate here… unless the actual emitters (e.g. China and India) cut coal/gas/oil (which they won’t BTW, because it will bankrupt them).
EV cars need minerals for batteries. How is the Aus Labour Party and Norway so rich and in power in every state. It is rich with these minerals.
And laughs when chippe sends our best people over to boost the Aus work force.
Have any of you bothered to look at the data?
The Key Government did their best to promote us to the world as “the next Texas”
Petrobras came. From memory they were one of the few companies that even bothered to tender given that most of our potential reserves are in super deep water, in super rough seas.
Petrobas looked for 6 months or so and they buggered off home well before their exploration licence had expired because the preliminary data demonstrated any resource here would not be financially viable to exploit…..and they were given the best fields to explore!
Cinders milked that one for the “Climate” by banning further exploration in an area where its clearly not worth exploiting. Which too this day still winds up the Rednecks. But that was politics.. a Greenwash….not policy!
The fact you people don’t see that just demonstrates how stupid you are
Now we have Rimmer politically posturing about it. “Oh the terrible Greens denying NZ’s prosperity”…woe is me!!
The reality is the oil simply isn’t there in quantities worth harvesting.
If it was … it would have been expoited by now.
Seemore knows that. He’s just playing games.
We are now in a world where the neoliberals are scraping the bottom of the barrel. Globally fracking is literally more financially viable than exploring NZ waters ffs!
But it’s a great card to play in an election….even if it is just a Joker.
Just once it would be good if the Egoteres on this site did even the slightest research of facts before they fired of their opinions.
Just once….
Nice summary Sleek. I’ve long contended that NZ (and the rest of the world) need to use what’s left of fossil fuels to transition to real alternatives. By which I don’t mean fantasies of happy motoring in lithium battery cars, or some other techno narcissism. ACT opening up again is as you say a commercial dud. It will however excite pro petrol proponents who occupy the same non thinking space as green techno fantasists. Both sides get to vote believing nonsense.
Good grief, dead eyed David is all over the place. Violent threats against the government aside, if yesterday’s man Seymour stands for nothing, less than nothing, what does that make his supporters?
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