TDB Dares Shane Jones To Sue Over Fishing Boat Footage
As climate risks accelerate across New Zealand, the Government is dismantling environmental protections while threatening media organisations with massive fines for publishing footage that could expose illegal activity at sea.
As this climate denying, anti-environment Government denies reality…
Stark climate warnings: The hypothetical is now our reality, experts say
A major report highlighting the risks of climate change to almost every facet of New Zealand life is a “big wake-up call”, climate researchers say.
One is calling for a war-time approach to climate adaptation, saying partisanship must be removed from crucial decisions about costs.
The Climate Change Commission’s national risk assessment, released on Thursday, highlighted what it said were the 10 biggest climate-related risks for the country.
Threats to buildings, road and rail, and the country’s “degraded” water infrastructure were all on the list, but it also included social and community wellbeing, emergency management, funding and decision-making.
There were “extreme” shortfalls in policy for many of the risks, and too much money was being spent reacting to events instead of building resilience, the commission said.
Earth Sciences New Zealand principal climate scientist Nick Cradock-Henry said since the previous risk assessment was published in 2020, the urgency of the climate risk was now clear.
“The speed and scale, the speed of onset of these risks, is increasing almost in real time,” he said.
“We’re having extreme weather events from once every few years to almost monthly – that is a dramatic acceleration in just a few years.”
…as they disband the Ministry of the Environment…
Committee recommends disestablishing Environment Ministry despite public opposition
The Environment Select Committee has recommended disestablishing the Ministry for the Environment, despite overwhelming public opposition.
In its report, the committee said the creation of a new Cities, Environment, Regions and Transport mega ministry under a bill currently before Parliament would not significantly change the functions of the current ministry.
The committee received 588 written submissions. All but five submissions were overtly opposed to the bill.
It has recommended by majority that the bill be passed, despite strong opposition from Labour and Green Party members.
The Green Party members slammed the bill as ”yet another action by the most anti-environment government that Aotearoa New Zealand has ever had.”
The Labour Party members said they were ”appalled by the constant attacks on the environment by this government.”
RNZ
..as they pimp for polluters, Shane Jones wants to fine anyone publishing footage off cameras on boats $50,000…
Shane Jones doubles down after criticism over $50,000 fine for leaking fishing footage
The Justice Ministry, Commerce Commission and Office of the Ombudsman have all sounded alarm bells over the Government’s controversial new fishing law proposals, according to briefings obtained by the Herald.
Oceans and Fisheries Minister Shane Jones personally requested that people, including government workers, be fined $50,000 if they leak video from commercial fishing boats – and today he doubled down.
“I would actually like the fine to be higher,” he told the Herald.
NZME
Shane Jones wants secrecy while the climate crisis accelerates
…If someone sends The Daily Blog footage taken from a camera on a fishing boat showing illegality and if The Daily Blog publishes that footage – Shane Jones is going to take us to court and fine us $50,000?!?
The Daily Blog triples down on our threat to Shane Jones that we will publish footage off boats
This stops being about fishing and starts becoming about free speech
Well, giddy up Shane, we’re going to court, son!
There is no way The Daily Blog won’t post footage taken from cameras on boats if it shows illegality and TDB will go all the way through their Court process to fight that.
It is absolutely in the public interest to know if commercial fishing interests are breaking the law or destroying the environment!
We will not be cowered by Shane bloody Jones threatening us with a $50,000 fine!
This is a free speech issue ffs!
If the footage shows illegality or environmental vandalism, of course we should see that footage and publicise it.
Blocking that footage from the public and then threatening media with a $50,000 fine is fascism.
As Editor of The Daily Blog, we won’t cower to fascism.
I don’t care how much money the Fishing Industry gives Shane Jones, we will publish that material the millisecond this becomes law.
I’ll see you in court, Shane!
If this law passes, it won’t just be about fisheries — it will be about whether the public has the right to see what is really happening at sea. And if that truth is worth $50,000 in fines, then so be it.
Bomber I hope you will expose this industry and its desecration of our marine environment. This and other corruption should not stand.
Come on Porn Jones, nothing to hide, nothing to fear?
Why are you hiding information to protect your donors?
Yes, Shane Jones, fascist, part of this climate denying, anti-environment, anti-NZ govt. is in denial. How can one CoC have so many corrupt, self-entitled and greedy politicians? Easy, they are not there for the people but for themselves! Selfish, over-stuffed examples of what NEVER to become. Greens have called it the most anti-environment govt. that Aotearoa has ever had! And all this while we face severe climate changes. There will be a day of judgment and the likes of Jones, Trump, Luxon, Peters, Seymour et al will reap what they have sown.