A positive and ambitious energy policy that reflects the personality of National leader John Key, was announced today. Old people wiped tears from their eyes and youths vowed never to tag another fence as they heard the ambitious vision National has developed for New Zealand’s energy future under heroic leader, John Key.
Actually, there’s 10 pages of repetitive moaning about problems for which no solutions are offered, some dodgy use of stats, a promise to either make some cosmetic changes to the RMA or drastically curtail communities’ say over projects (it depends on what Key’s ‘putting an end to vextatious objections’ means in reality), a promise to have a look at the energy industry’s regulatory framework, and a promise of more gas-fuelled power plants. Where the gas will come from, where the power plants will be sited, and how this option is cheaper or better than more investment in renewables, given that the price is skyrocketing as supply is struggles to match the surging global demand for gas as countries try to get off coal and we have to pay for the carbon emissions too, is not explained.
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