Open mike 10/03/2024

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  1. Drowsy M. Kram 1
    10 March 2024 at 10:52 am

    Dig this [16 Feb 2024]
    “In 2040, if I have anything to do with it, there will be a flourishing mining sector employing all my nephews who are currently going to the figurative Kalgoolies of the world, and I will have served my penance for having acquiesced in the closure of oil and gas off the coast of Taranaki.”

    In three weeks, RMA Minister Chris Bishop will introduce legislation which will enable Jones’ promises to be realised.

    That legislation will reach back to the Muldoon 1981-84 government for its inspiration in that it will reserve the right for the final approval of resource consent for Ministers rather than independent tribunals.

    Some Sunday 'entertainment', courtesy of The Guardian.

    Yellow Dot Studios produces short-form videos to inform with ‘genuine, righteous anger’ and ‘laugh-out-loud comedy’ [The Guardian, 9 March 2024]

    Car Commercial 419 [YouTube video – 4 minutes]

    "Scientists are here to help you" [A tale of Fire and Ice – 4 minutes]

    "The most precious life of all is the dead kind – that has been compressed for hundreds of millions of years, under massive rocks, until it magically becomes oil." [Chevron Ad – 1:40]

    Meanwhile, Aotearoa NZ is keeping it real – apart from Jones!

    Damien Grant: Politicisation of our response to climate change is dispiriting [10 March 2024]

    The next big target for disinformation? Climate change [9 March 2024]

    Planet shatters heat records for ninth month in a row [9 March 2024]

    • SPC 1.1
      10 March 2024 at 8:30 pm

      So the Atlas Network have sent us Lomborg – doing what Jordan Peterson does, to evolutionary psychology, with his apologetic for the order created by patriarchy – to the planet earth as a habitat for human life.

      The only way an intelligent person would not see the flaws in his approach, is if they did not want to.

      At least Grant, sort of, admits it.

      https://www.theguardian.com/books/2020/aug/09/false-alarm-by-bjorn-lomborg-apocalypse-never-by-michael-shellenberger-review

      • Drowsy M. Kram 1.1.1
        10 March 2024 at 9:12 pm

        Thanks SPC for the link checking – I didn't read past the headline sad

        I [Damien Grant] don’t know enough on the topic [that the negative impacts of anthropogenic global warming have been over-estimated/stated] to challenge his [Bjørn Lomborg's] presentation. He convinced me but I’m predisposed to his perspective so not an objective scribe.

        David Seymour introduced the Danish academic, joking that he must have gone to hell as he was shaking the hands of so many of his friends.
        …
        Reasonable minds can disagree with the ideas presented by Lomborg, but reasonable minds would have to be in the room first.

        Borg meets Rimmer – a paucity of reasonable minds indeed.

  2. Craig H 2
    10 March 2024 at 11:30 am

    https://www.1news.co.nz/2024/03/10/chloe-swarbrick-elected-new-green-party-co-leader/

    Congratulations to the new Green Party co-leader, Chloe Swarbrick.

  3. ianmac 3
    10 March 2024 at 11:57 am

    Which is it Nicola? Theatre or ignorance? Looming gloom with the Economy has Liam Dann exploring the year ahead.

    Is the Government’s shock about this “worse than expected” economy political theatre or just ignorance?

    It has to be the former, surely.

    I still have a great deal of faith in the economic and financial smarts of Prime Minister Christopher Luxon and Finance Minister Nicola Willis, even though they’ve had little opportunity to display them – with the early days of this regime dominated by a weird grab-bag of policies demanded by their coalition partners.

    But complaints that the economy has suddenly fallen off a cliff since the election are silly. It’s been falling off a cliff for at least a year.

    https://www.nzherald.co.nz/business/liam-dann-this-tough-economy-should-surprise-no-one-least-of-all-the-government/7D5XVJYQ4FCAJKBI6HN6GVVZV4/https://www.nzherald.co.nz/business/liam-dann-this-tough-economy-should-surprise-no-one-least-of-all-the-government/7D5XVJYQ4FCAJKBI6HN6GVVZV4/

  4. joe90 4
    10 March 2024 at 12:54 pm

    Here we go.

    .

    Nicola Toki

    @naturevision

    So @jacktame asked @cjsbishop if development projects that have been rejected by the courts can now go through the fast track legislation. The answer is yes. Also note the Minister for the Environment is kept out of the process. #waronnature

    https://twitter.com/naturevision/status/1766561661190603083

    OceanaGold (TSX: OGC) is hoping its Waihi North project will meet the requirements for accelerated development of major projects under a new permitting regime introduced by New Zealand’s recently elected government.

    The Fast Track Approvals bill, which envisions a “one-stop shop” for resource consents and Resource Management Act permits, has just passed its first reading in Parliament.

    Waihi North is a proposed underground mining project anchored by the Wharekirauponga development, located just north of OceanaGold’s existing Waihi mine operations. It is supplemented by the Gladstone open pit that lies directly to the west of the Waihi processing plant.

    https://www.mining.com/oceanagold-eyeing-fast-tracked-permitting-for-waihi-north-under-new-govt-regime/

    https://www.waihinorth.info/wharekirauponga.html

  5. weka 5
    10 March 2024 at 2:25 pm

    Post up about Chloe Swarbrick's first speech as new GP co-leader

    https://thestandard.org.nz/chloe-swarbricks-first-words-as-new-green-party-co-leader/

  6. randal mcmurphy 6
    10 March 2024 at 5:50 pm

    so what is the latest news on when National will Privatise New Zealands water supply?

  8. Kat 8
    10 March 2024 at 8:54 pm

    "When it comes to funding political projects, he said, there was an expectation that over time the commission would demonstrate that it was ‘even handed……….."

    https://www.stuff.co.nz/nz-news/350207531/film-commission-makes-own-decisions-govt-says-after-ardern-doco-green-light

    I guess Goldsmith was thinking being even handed meant political future projects would include the current coalition of chaos being compared to the rise and fall of the Third Reich type documentary's………. same nightmare different century….

  9. newsense 9
    10 March 2024 at 10:44 pm

    Luxon’s new numbers come from the public seeing him talk like a c- and walk like a c-. Both on his accommodation and how tough his transport was (no former PMs said I’m better than this, thanks). But here’s a kicker:

    This shows the pure ignorance at the heart of the shrugging response of our prime minister – there is not a demand problem, simply a revenue problem for media. What he is saying here shouldn’t be missed – the “leave it to the market” idea was not considered acceptable for Air NZ, the airline he once ran. It has repeatedly been bailed out by the government, because it was considered unacceptable for a country to lack a national carrier. We are staring down the loss of almost 20% of the country’s news media jobs in a little over a week – but this is not considered important enough for any kind of intervention. News – the chief way we find out what is happening in our country – is fine to just vanish.

    From Duncan Grieve. https://thespinoff.co.nz/media/08-03-2024/its-a-great-day-to-be-a-bad-guy-reflecting-on-the-end-of-sunday-and-fair-go

    It also raises the possibility of political payback as both programmed retained ratings. Previously there was the rumor of National governments threatening the funding of a political news show prior to an election, but to cut a show that has been about the only one asking tough questions of what has been a spectacular load of lies told about cigarettes, gang patches, boot camps, transport, the state of the economy and just about every damn thing.

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