COP30 in Brazil was a total sell out this year with no direct reference to the fossil fuels that are heating up the planet.
It was a watered down do nothing statement that refuses to acknowledge what is causing climate change because Big Oil and the polluters have captured the entire process and have purposely crippled it so that they are never held to account for the environmental damage their product creates.
For every 10 activists, there was a big oil lobbyist.
In NZ yesterday, it was revealed in a RNZ special investigation that Minister Shane Jones gave Fossil fuel companies privileged, insider access to confidential drafts of legislation during a two-year campaign to weaken oil and gas regulation and overturn our offshore exploration ban.
Internal documents show how Big Oil repeatedly lobbied Jones to dilute New Zealand’s clean-up rules for ageing oil fields – rules brought in to protect Kiwis after the 2019 Tui Oil Field collapse fiasco that left us with a $300m clean up bill!!!
The lobbying worked and instead of automatically forcing Big Oil to clean up any pollution they leave, Shane Jones as Minister will decide if his mates in big oil have to clean up their mess.
Remember, on top of this concession, the Minister gave oil and gas $200million in subsidies to go looking for oil and gas in NZ, despite all the major exploration companies handing in their previous licenses because there is no more oil and gas fields to discover.
Shane Jones has more chance of finding a Moa than new oil and gas fields.
3 questions:
1 – Who does Shane jones think he’s working for? NZ or the oil and gas industry because it’s not clear he knows which one.
2 – Why shouldn’t Big Oil clean up their pollution when they decommission gas and oil wells?
and 3 – Why are we giving them $200 million in corporate welfare to look for oil and gas they couldn’t previously find?
Who is Shane Jones working for?
NZ or the oil industry?
Or the Fishing Industry?
Or the Mining Industry?
Brothers and sisters, we’re all going to die on a burning planet thanks to the lies of the Petro-industrial complex and their polluter mates.
If you’re not angry yet, you’re not paying attention
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He is out for himself.
^^this,
its the Shane Jones First party.
The totally corrupt, dishonest, Shane Jones, is working for Shane Jones, just like Winston works for Winston. There is no “political party” there is just vanity, ego and mania. Go for it you pompous pair. Clearly deals and bribes change hands. And don’t start me on COP30 – a total cop-out for our planet and its people. God how I hate the greedy and their lust for money and power with no concern whatsoever for the consequences that affect all of us!
Isn’t giving private companies privileged govt information clear cut, no doubt, first order corruption? And NZ just sits and takes it does it? wtf is going on? Why isn’t he in a cell?
In 2010, while a Labour Party MP, Shane Jones was a vocal critic of the National government’s approach to resource extraction, specifically mining. He argued that their policies of “quarrying the nation” threatened New Zealand’s environment and long-term economic well-being.
Roll forward to 2025 and now Shane Jones is all for the ‘Mine Baby Mine’ attitude. A complete reversal of his 2010 speech and opinion against mining whilst in Opposition in 2010.
It shows up Shane Jones as being easily corrupted and manipulated by the Mining Industry and the other industries. He is ONLY there as a politician for What He can get out of it for Himself. In other words like Winston Peters he is a Trougher.
He has No Interest in NZ and NZers. As long as he keeps his Masters in the Mining, Fishing and Oil industries happy then he is happy.
Lets hope that like many others in this Coalition that Shane Jones gets thoroughly and deserved thrashed at the next election.
Shane Jones has long been at the crossroads between local development and environmental protection. With so much of NZ’s economy tied to extractive industries, it’s tough to know if he can stand up to the powerful lobbyists pushing for short-term gains.