Re-opening gas and oil exploration is such a fucking rort!
Where the bloody hell will this new oil and gas be found then?
Opening oil and gas exploration despite all the major players, Chevron, Statoil, Petrobras and OMV all handing in their licenses because they found nothing is not a solution!
There hasn’t been a new major oil or gas find in 20 years and even if they do manage to find something, it won’t be online for 16 years!
Shane Jones has more chance of finding a Moa than new oil and gas!
All Jones has done is put together a $200million subsidy for the bloody oil and gas industry – we should be using that $200million oil sustainable solar, wind, hell even wave turbine tech!
We should be putting that $200m into solar panels on every state house, hospitals, school, library and Marae!
Instead we are giving it to the oil and gas industry to go look for oil and gas that they have previously turned their exploration licenses in for FFS!
And it gets worse!
After the Tui oil field disaster (Tui was sold to Tamarind, which later went bust, leaving taxpayers to clean up), there was public outcry. The Crown picked up hundreds of millions in decommissioning costs!
In 2021, reforms were introduced to the Crown Minerals Act requiring “trailing liability”. That meant former owners/permit-holders (not just the current one) could be held responsible for cleanup if the present one fails. Also financial securities (bonds etc.) were required, stricter decommissioning plans and reporting obligations.
With the Crown Minerals Amendment Act 2025 (passed 5 August 2025), Jones pushed through changes to clean-up liability obligations. Key changes include:
Ministerial discretion on trailing liability:
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Former automatic liability of past permit holders is now not guaranteed. It’s discretionary. That means previous owners may or may not be held liable depending on what the Ministers (Resources and Finance) decide
- The “chain” of liability is being limited: rather than unlimited trailing liability (where liability cascades back through all previous owners), the law under the changes limits it to just the immediately prior owner (if at all) when the permit is transferred.
After giving these pricks $200m to look for gas and oil they haven’t found, Shane has now let the fuckers off the hook for the clean up costs!
WHY THE FUCK SHOULD THOSE WHO POLLUTE NOT PAY FOR THE CLEAN UP!
If you are not angry about all of this, you are not paying attention!
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Shane Jones [aka Mr gob-gas] knows he and his portfolio are now utterly “irrelevant”. He is simply a blowhard jellyfish and should not be in parliament at all! Shane, time to ‘go out to pasture’ – you are not wanted and clearly not needed. Move on before you are shoved out. Voters can only take so much BS and cr&p and we’re over it!
The real purpose of those oil industry subsidies is not to find gas. The real purpose is:
1.) to give a boost to businesses in regions like Taranaki that will have a role in providing supporting services to the overseas corporations. So it’s an indirect subsidy to business (CoC’s electoral base) that passes through the hands of those foreign corporates.
2.) exploration itself juices up the GDP numbers for a while, irrespective of whether gas is found or not – thus making ‘mastermind’ Luxon’s growth plan look like it’s working
3.) it’s an ideological stand against the logic of climate science. If belief in climate science is weakened, this has huge short-term advantages to business and agriculture right across the economy. Long-term though it will harm them enormously.
4.) it enables them to blame our current energy price crisis on Labour – on the completely spurious grounds that if new exploration licenses had not been banned in Labour’s first term, there would now be gas from completely new sources flowing through the pipes. The lead time on commercialising gas that has not even been found yet is decades. So this is a complete lie that was repeated by Luxon on Morning Report today. But lying about it deflects the blame from where it really lies – on the Key government for part-privatising the gentailers and thus creating perverse incentives to increase profits and shareholder dividends by creating an artificial energy shortage through not investing in renewables and battery storage.
5.) building on no.4 – this deflection from the folly of Key’s part-privatisation of the gentailers is essential. Because more broadly, if this folly was widely understood, it is a dagger to the heart of the economic fantasies that justify the neoliberal project which the CoC are re-inflicting on us with all the single-minded zealotry we last saw in the early 1990’s.
Reminds me of the sort of thing the corkscrew-twisted Sir Humphrey Appleby would come out with on Yes, Minister, whenever the time came to explain some policy that hardly made sense to a reasonable person: ‘but you see, Minister, “the real purpose” is 1, 2, 3, 4, 5,’
I could be wrong but the Labour Government did not ban oil and gas exploration, instead, they stopped issuing new licences. Permits currently held extend out to 2050.
Re Christopher Luxon’s comment this morning that “Labour caused the energy crisis”, why didn’t RNZ’s interviewer Corin Dann challenge Luxon on this false statement and ask him to explain it?
This applies to other interviewers/presenters who accept inaccurate/dishonest statements from Government MPs, without asking open questions i.e. – how, why, when, where who, what. Surely this is basic interviewing/reporting.
Because when the overseas press junkets are dished out….if you question them too critically, You will not be invited….”blackballed”
And another thing….Baldrick appears on his weekly talk with about 4 mins before the top of the hour…there is never enough time to do an in-depth interview….just sound bites & platitudes!
Moa moa on the wall, who has the tiniest brain of all?
Isn’t someone trying to clone a moa from a turkey? Surely there’s a lesson in that.
yep they will call it shane
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