National candidates are boiled ham arseholes – BUT Labour has an Environmental Minister who caved into polluters – which one is worse?
Look – National candidates are boiled ham arseholes – BUT Labour has an Environmental Minister who caved into polluters – which one is worse?
Outrage at Stephen Jack is performance art for Twitter Feminists
Identity Politics is killing critical thinking.
Parker doing this is far more damaging than Stephen Jack liking a poem…
David Parker failed to stop NZ’s 11th-biggest emitter beating a climate law
Staff advised the Environment Minister to urgently step in to stop a major polluter getting ahead of a crucial law change. What he did next was “deeply disappointing” to some. Eloise Gibson reports.
One of New Zealand’s biggest climate polluters can keep operating until 2046, after Environment Minister David Parker rejected advice to stop a high-emitting factory beating a law change.
Parker was advised to step in “as soon as possible” to prevent Auckland’s Glenbrook Steel Mill getting consent to keep making air pollution for decades to come, without climate change being considered.
The mill’s owner, NZ Steel, applied for its permits after the Government announced it was changing the law so councils could consider climate change, but before the change took effect. Parker had the option to put the climate back on the table, but chose not to.
…just so that we have this straight regarding poetry.
Left wing poems where Pacific Islanders fantasise about killing Cracker?
All good.
Right wing poems comparing Ardern to Hitler?
EVIL
Glad we worked that out.
Personally I thought both poems were crap.
Can we get back to Parker allowing a Polluter to get away with murder or do we still need to do the performance dance for angry feminists?
If we are damning National candidates for dumb shit they like, what about Green Party candidates for actual shit they’ve said?
Why can the media jump up and down about Jack but are weirdly silent on the Green Party candidates in the late teens?
ANYWAY – I don’t care about shit people like or dumb shit they say, (other than the hypocrisy of the news media coverage), I care about stuff that matters like David Parker, the Environment Minister allowing polluters to exploit a loop hole he refused to close.
Were any lobbyists – the same lobbyists that infect Labour, involved in Parker’s decisions?
Can we start focusing on this or do we need to kill Stephen Jack ‘s pets as well?
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Do you want roofing steel made here or in China?
That is the most obvious result if they were closed, at least we get the economic benefits with local production now.
Correct , shut it down and just import more , just like we did with oil production
Also NZ provides lots of really well paid unionised jobs.
Name them?
It’s the old “too big to fail” argument
It’s the old “too big to fail” argument
Doctor Sharma as a normal everyday person gave us an insight as to the character of candidates in Labour and National. ACT have the best behaved candidate s.
Best behaved candidates but woeful and morally corrupt policies.
Bingo!
They are ALL corporate stooges.
Parker can adapt to existential climate change by changing the name of the agency to Ministry for Pollution. Could be worse though, we could be slave mining cobalt to build woke renewables for the fantasy new world.
mmhmm!
Conflating two different things here.
a) Natzos dodgy candidates
b) Govt. Ministers whimping out and reinforcing the neo liberal state in favour of capital. Andrew Little is another classic whimper out–Cannabis reform–and just loves the wood panelled offices of the spooks and sucking up to military types.
Both deserve opprobrium but not like with like however.
At some point you need to consider strategic national interest. Surely the country needs a steel mill, an ali smelter, an oil refinery, enough oil wells, enough gas wells, windmill manufacturing, solar cell and battery manufacturing, large scale timber milling/processing …globalised supply chains don’t operate without disruption.
Parker sold out NZ independence to international corporate dictates with the TPPA.
I am under no illusions as to where he stands.
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Because David Parker works with a lot of integrity in mind and from a legal perspective he often finds he cannot justify closing loopholes or, in some situations, because he runs through everything with a fine-toothed comb, it is simply left too late for the loophole to be closed.
It’s why this woke nonsense has switched so many people off politics. Wokism is a curse on our body politic.
We do still need steel here, right? So shutting down our comparatively clean steel mill and importing dirty steel from China/india will solve exactly nothing. In fact it will do a net harm, since China/India steel is far dirtier than NZ steel. But sure, do that. I really want to see a poll of how many people falsely think that reducing emissions in NZ will somehow directly benefit the local climate. I think (anecdotally) it’s >50% – and the only reason they are so poorly informed is due to the very deliberate disinformation that is being promulgated by sites like this one.
I’m not outraged at Stephen Jack. I don’t think he should be an MP, but it’s hard to get too stressed about some off-colour jokes when the world is on fire. So, fair point Bomber.
Main point about SJ isn’t about SJ at all, it’s that National wants to run the country but is apparently not organised enough to do very, very easy and basic candidate vetting.