Written By: Simon Louisson - Date published: 9:00 am, August 27th, 2024 - 43 comments
Energy Minister Simeon Brown is peddling lies about a gas shortage. The country exports around 40 percent of its annual gas production as methanol. More is used to make synthetic nitrogen fertilizer, a nasty greenhouse emission source, for our farms. We don’t need expensive LNG distribution facilities while exporting the bulk of our own gas.
Written By: weka - Date published: 10:33 am, May 10th, 2024 - 60 comments
Powercuts in a wealthy country like New Zealand don’t make us third world. It’s bog standard neoliberalism which has both impeded upkeep of our infrastructure and blocked meaningful climate transition. Third world is when you can’t afford to fix, maintain and futureproof society. Neoliberalism is when you do that by choice.
Written By: weka - Date published: 6:31 am, July 11th, 2017 - 50 comments
What’s wrong with a few mid-winter power cuts down south?
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