Unfucking believable…
Government reopens oil and gas exploration nationwide, Greens decry ‘climate fire’
The government has reopened applications for oil and gas exploration across the whole of New Zealand for the first time since the 2018 ban, with a new faster route for awarding permits.
Industry leaders hailed the move as vital for energy security, but the Green Party condemned it as a sign the coalition cares little for the climate crisis.
From Thursday, companies can apply for new prospecting and exploration permits anywhere in the country – not just onshore Taranaki.
In a statement, Resources Minister Shane Jones said a new “open market” pathway would allow firms to apply at any time for permits to explore new areas of land and sea.
… Shane Jones has more chance of finding a bloody Moa than any new oil and gas!
What happened to those existing permits last time?
Some companies handed them back before completing work programmes — often because they failed to find commercially viable resources, not directly because of the ban!
Chevron and Statoil (Equinor) exited New Zealand exploration blocks before the ban was announced, after early seismic studies suggested poor prospects.
Petrobras had already surrendered its deepwater Raukūmara permit in 2012 after protests and technical challenges.
Post-ban, OMV drilled the much-watched Taranaki Basin well (2019) and found nothing; it later surrendered blocks it held.
Several smaller explorers exited, citing both poor geology results and policy uncertainty.
The reason the Industry walked away was because they found no new oil and gas!
And what was Shane Jones response to all of this? Why make it easier for them to get away with not cleaning up their own pollution!
He allowed these oil and gas companies off the hook for the pollution clean up.
You heard that right.
Previously Labour had passed law that said if you are the licence holder, you can’t on-sell that licence near the end of the field so as to avoid the pollution clean up costs once you have taken all the oil.
This exact thing happened during the Tui Oil Field debacle where NZ Taxpayers were left with a $300million clean up cost!
WHY. THE. FUCK. WOULD. YOU. SLEEPY. STUPID. HOBBITS. ALLOW. BIG. OIL. TO TAKE. ALL. OUR. OIL. AND. ALLOW. THEM. TO. LEAVE. US. WITH. THE. CLEAN. UP. COSTS???
You will note that I wrote that sentence in one word full stops so that even NZFirst voters can understand.
Why allow an oil company to take our oil, pay us a pittance in royalties and then fucking stiff us with the pollution clean up costs?
Surely you can’t hate Jacinda, vaccines, Māori and Trans people so much that you are gleefully willing to allow Matura Shane to give the oil companies a loop hole so they don’t have to pay for their pollution?
Surely you can’t?
Surely?
They made the mess, they have to clean up their pollution!
Why are you allowing Shane Jones to get away with this environmental vandalism?
BTW – this is all happening at a time when the Government are now actively attempting to sideline the Climate Commission…
Govt considers sidelining Climate Change Commission from emissions advice
Climate Change Minister Simon Watts repeatedly adamantly denied any plan to remove the Climate Change Commission’s role in advising on emissions reduction plans, only for his office to two days later confirm the Government was considering exactly that.
…if you are not incandescent with motherfucking rage at how these corrupt and venal interests are polluting the country as the climate burns, you ain’t paying attention or you are being paid by a polluter.
As for this…
…go fuck yourself!
The Left will no longer work with the polluters.
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‘with Chloe burning more fossil fuel than 99% of the population’
Evidence?(other than stuff pulled out of arses)?
Right Wing wankers are reminded that the slots for short ,unsupported wankoffs are currently filled by Bob the First and Im right.
Auditions may be held at a later date in the middle of Cook Strait on one the new ferries purchased by the present government.
You will never find a more wretched hive of scum and villainy then at the beehive under these numpty desperate fucks. Poaka nui Shame Jones fail’s to achieve masturbatory orgasm face. Yuk.
If Luxon really wanted more oil and gas exploration he would be asking Labour to reinstate its ban when it next comes to office, but respect all existing licenses, and allow any resources found under those licenses to be exploited.
This is simple economics. If a prospector knows that he has a window of opportunity, after which a ban goes on any potential competition, then he has a much greater financial incentive to prospect.
If Labour agrees not to reinstate the ban, oil and gas exploration will become less attractive for the prospectors.
What is Luxon playing at? I would suggest that he is simply trying to rope his political opposition into a failing project, so that he won’t have to face criticisms at the next election that his policy was (a) damaging to the environment (b) doomed to failure and (c) provided false hope to New Zealand capitalism.
Do you think he knows he’s a phat lump of lard, or does he have the bigliest ego that means he can’t see the wood for the trees?
Hopefully, unlike the green frog, he’ll have done gone extinct before too long. He’s definitely boiling in the pot as we post
Shane Jones is a heart attack waiting to happen.
Thankfully he and this coalition will be out of Government next year.
Pushback on coal and gas exploration but in the big picture the 4 big gentailers burn around 100,000 tonnes of imported coal a day at Huntly.
what a fucken lie the bloody thing never runs every day you right wing chump .And if it did it would burn less that the 20 million Jones is handing out in the next ten years
A fuckin’ lie? Not quite. What’s your problem? A mistake. 100,000 tonnes each year give or take. Solar and wind helps but when it don’t rain its Huntly that’s fired up. Seems to be the go to irrespective of govt.
Have you noy heard of batteries and if every house had solar how much would be generated every day .On shit days hydro would kick in .
The problem with bringing Trumpism to New Zealand, lock stock and barrel, is that New Zealand is not America. Drill, baby drill, might work in the US, but New Zealand does not share the same geology as the US. On top of that our trading relations and the structure of our economy are vastly different to the US. That is without even considering the social and political distinctions. The coalition has taken a lazy and stupid approach to the New Zealand economy, choosing to ignore all its particular characteristics, and that does not bode well for the future of the economy or the government.
Just insane bullshit. We don’t even have a refinery. Why the f**k would ‘we’ (and it would be foreign companies, not REAL NEW ZEALANDERS) extract oil to be processed overseas? Shane Jones is an enemy of New Zealanders.
The millions DR PORK is throwing around could have been better invested in another solar farm for Taranaki or another wind farm with a guaranteed return on investment not a guaranteed loss of every cent and more .
I believe our reliance on fossil fuels is the single biggest threat to humanity. Not because of anthroprogenic global warming*, but because it is finite and our current ability to simply survive is reliant (nay addicted) on it and we’re likely to nuke each other fighting over what remains.
That said, we are reliant on fossil fuels for everything from drug storage to food production (let alone heat, light and transport) and we are one naval blockade (quite likely given the China/Taiwan issue) away from dying in our millions. So I believe we should as ethically as possible drill and refine the stuff while we and the rest of the world (mainly them – we’re only 5m people) come up with an alternative (ideally renewables and pumped storage which we are not doing, but we do have large uranium reserves). I also believe we should follow Norway in creating a sovereign wealth fund to profit as a country from it.
The problem with this approach is it’s evidence based, nuanced and doesn’t make National/Act supporters phenomenally wealth or give Labour greenwash brownie points/votes for free. Which is why do nothing Hipkins was so coy when it came to responding to the policy. I fear that by the time we realise we need to compromise it will be too late and we’ll be dying in our millions.
* I have two postgraduate degrees directly in the two areas directly related to climate change and am yet to see any good evidence for AGW – certainly none that supports the current ‘environmental’ policies of impoverishing the poor (i.e. the non top 1%). The climate has been massively changing for tens of thousands of years (long before industrialisation) and it’s energy change not temperature (think phase change of ice – again starting long ago) that we should look at any way.
So why are insurance companies reducing where and what they will cover or making the insurance premiums very expensive?
https://www.stuff.co.nz/nz-news/360839995/nearly-120-jobs-be-lost-carter-holt-harvey-closes-site-tokoroa
Nz First have no interest in the regions, only the cigarette companies donations.
The NZ oil & gas industry claims they pay 42% of profits in royalties and tax but everyone knows international oil companies easily avoid taxes by reducing profits with transfer payments.
https://www.energymix.co.nz/our-environment/exploring-the-issues/keeping-the-profits-in-new-zealand/
On the other hand Norway’s spectacular sovereign wealth fund (US$1.9 trillion) was built by taxing the profits of their oil and gas sector at a rate of 78%. That’s partially because the government is the biggest shareholder in their biggest oil company. Of course, Roger Douglas fire-saled the NZ people’s share of their oil industry. We can expect Shane Jones to run a tax loopholey regime similar to Australia so that we can be both ripped off and polluted.
https://australiainstitute.org.au/post/norway-shows-how-australia-can-get-a-fair-return-from-oil-and-gas/
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