El Niño NZ: Govt Protects Big Polluters
El Niño could peak over New Zealand just as this Government guts the environment ministry and protects the polluters fuelling the crisis.

El Niño could peak over New Zealand just as this Government guts the environment ministry and protects the polluters fuelling the crisis.

This is not legal tidying. It is the Crown weakening protections for ākonga Māori, then pretending the harm is theoretical.

Police, Justice, Corrections, MSD, Oranga Tamariki and Treasury warned them. The Government pushed ahead with move-on powers anyway.

They call it parliamentary sovereignty. Martyn calls it what it looks like: retrospective law to shield big polluters from a citizen using the courts.

Officials said do not intervene. Big Polluters wanted protection from Mike Smith’s court case. The Government went ahead and gave them exactly what they wanted.

The Government created the conditions for homelessness. Now it wants police powers to move rough sleepers and beggars out of sight. Even Chris Bishop says parts breach protected rights.

Mike Smith won the right to take major emitters to court. Now Luxon’s Government is changing the law before the evidence can be heard.

Fonterra and Z Energy lobbied the Prime Minister’s Office over climate litigation. The public only found out through the courts. That should alarm everyone.

National has stopped pretending to be centrist. Six months before Election 2026, the cruelty is out in the open and the target is anyone too exhausted to fight back.

Critics say the Government is attempting to rewrite the law to protect major polluters after the Supreme Court allowed Smith v Fonterra to proceed.