By TONY MOBILIFONITIS
WHEN three big oil companies shut down New Zealand’s only oil refinery, Marsden Point, in 2022 because refining margins were said to be too low to meet the costs of refining operations, Dr John Coyne, head of the Northern Australia Strategic Policy Centre, called the Kiwis “very naive”.
Most naive were Ardern’s green minions, who like fools, had already banned oil and gas exploration in 2018. After all, who needs that dirty black stuff with the “transition to renewables”, as outlined by the bird-brained International Socialist Ardern, following orders from her WEF puppet masters.
According to Marsden Point’s three oil customers, BP, Mobil and Z Energy, oil refining in Australia and New Zealand is more expensive than in Asia, so why not just import the refined products, ignoring the fact that New Zealand already taps gas and oil reserves off the Taranaki coast for local consumption.
But Coyne told Radio New Zealand they were “buying into a very dated view of globalisation, and they certainly haven’t learned the lessons from Covid-19, around secure supply chains and national resilience.” He warned that oil companies could not manage the complexities from escalating conflicts, trade splits or natural disasters.
And with the eventual closure of the Whangarei refinery and the loss of hundreds of local skilled jobs, Channel Infrastrucure took over the facility from Refining NZ with all sorts of whizbang ideas such as “green hydrogen” production – which burns four units of hydrocarbons to produce one unit of hydrogen.
And no prizes for guessing who they teamed up with to float these green dreams – climate clown Twiggy Forrest’s Fortescue Future Industries (FFI) – with whom they want to make “sustainable jet fuel” aka sustainable aviation fuel (SAF), supposedly “an alternative to conventional fossil aviation fuel produced with biological and non-biological resources”.
We presume “sustainable aviation fuel” is able to sustain an aircraft in flight, just like regular aviation fuel, but according to the woke wonderkids, feedstocks used to produce SAF replace oil, coal or gas typically used in traditional jet fuel, and can be derived from both plant and animal materials, ranging from cooking oil and plant oils to agricultural residues as well as municipal waste and waste gases.
That shitty jet fuel-mixture is guaranteed to be a load more expensive than the regular stuff, which doesn’t involve going to all the trouble of collecting all that biological crap, when crude oil and coal is basically the result of naturall biological processes anyway. But of course, anything that involves cancelling hydrocarbons from the earth must be good because it “saves the planet”.
But a growing number of shareholders in Channel Infrastructure want to stop all this baloney and restore the refining operation at the coastal facility. They figure the best way to do this is to sign up more shareholders and then vote the current management out. The deal, with three free shares on offer, is also open to Australians (see below).
The rebel shareholders are calling themselves the Collective Action for Energy Stability Group and their campaign Operation Good Oil. What these people want, essentially, is to be able to ensure a strategic supply of oil for the nation, because without it, the nation is at the mercy of so-called “global market forces”.
Channel Infrastructure CEO, Rob Buchanan, naturally thinks “decarbonisation” is a wonderful idea because Twiggy and the people at the WEF and UN say so. Buchanan and Fortescue Future Industries (FFI) have also agreed to investigate a “green hydrogen manufacturing facility at Marsden Point to produce synthetic Sustainable Aviation Fuel (eSAF) that could supply some 60 million litres of eSAF per year – equivalent to a whopping 3 per cent of the pre-Covid annual jet fuel requirements for the aviation sector in New Zealand. That shite will be expensive too.
But don’t worry, if Klaus and his Climate Clowns get their way, old fashioned hydrocarbon fuel will be outlawed and airline travel will only be for the elites with a suitable social credit score and a few million dollars worth of carbon credits.
The dizzy-headed Buchanan says his company wants “to pursue opportunities that have the potential to contribute to New Zealand’s wider decarbonisation efforts and energy transition, and bring the potential for new jobs for Northlanders.”
The equally dizzy-headed and WEF-compliant CEO of FFI, Mark Hutchinson, likes to remind us that “aviation is one of the few sectors in the world to have an industry and UN-backed goal of net-zero carbon by 2050”. Oh, brilliant Mr Hutchinson, what an original idea.
He goes on: “Airlines are relying on Sustainable Aviation Fuel as the most critical component of the industry’s roadmap. This project would position FFI as a first mover in the eSAF market, which we believe is a valuable global market for FFI. For New Zealand, domestic eSAF production would provide a greater degree of fuel security and support development of the local green hydrogen industry.”
So this woke wonderkid thinks fuel security is a great idea, but is working to destroy the refining capability of New Zealand’s last refinery simply because a bunch of bureaucrats at the UN tell him and his boardroom of boofheads that oil from the ground is naughty, naughty.
Big oil knows how to play the global green game too, while protecting their own arses. BP, for instance, is big on the “sustainability” crap because they know that any environmental regulation squeezes supply just makes it harder for their potential competition and small producers like NZ.
In 2021, BP announced it would close its Kwinana oil refinery in Perth and convert it into a fuel import terminal because it was “no longer economically viable” because of “the regional over-supply of fuel and the growth of mega-refineries in Asia and the Middle East”.
That brought the oil refineries in Australia from four to three and then a few months later ExxonMobil announced the closure of its Altona oil refinery in Melbourne, saying it also was no longer economically viable and would be turned into a fuel-import terminal.
The only two refineries are Ampol’s Brisbane refinery and Viva Energy’s refinery in Geelong, Victoria. Ampol was also reviewing whether to follow the same course. Twenty-three years ago, Australia had eight refineries that met virtually all of the country’s domestic demand for refined fuel.
But did these closures bring the price of fuel down? Not on your Nellie. Governments rake in billions in fuel tax, with Australia’s fuel excise at 49.6c a litre following the Federal Government’s latest increase to the tax on petrol and diesel products. So big oil and big government are in each other’s pockets.
For shareholders to give the boot to the woke board running Channel Infrastructure would be a big win for local control over big oil and market manipulators.
The Sharesies platform is offering a free $5, equivalent to three shares, enabling you to become a shareholder at no cost or you can go through a bank like ASB, which offers a straightforward online share trading sign-up.
Good point self-sufficiency is necessary and Australia’s reserves are less than two weeks. Hopefully there will be no invaders because the military will run out by the time the tanks are loaded onto trucks.Editor
Editor, cairnsnews said – “… we’re well aware of the alternative theory for the creation of oil, i.e. abiogenic oil formation.”
A “theory” which, in a nutshell, says that the biotic origin of geologic hydrocarbons is false. Yay team.
Why does there have to BE a “theory”? We don’t NEED ANOTHER “theory” to come to the conclusion that a prior “theory” is WRONG. The whole POINT of HAVING a “theory” is to be able to TEST it, and if it’s PROVEN to be wrong, then we are supposed to DISCARD it. That doesn’t require an “alternative theory” waiting in the wings ready to jump in and fill out the narrative.
Why not just ACCEPT that NO-ONE KNOWS where the stuff is coming from?
Meanwhile, the assumption that geologic hydrocarbons are a byproduct of buried biomass comes with the IMPLICT EXPECTATION of it running out and the URGENCY of dumping it and scambling to find “renewable” ALTERNATIVES.
That’s an inescapable corollary of THAT particular theory, which makes it an invaluable ACCESSORY NARRATIVE to the BS “Climate Change” scare campaign to deconstruct our economy and society and ultimately accomplish the heady task of ENSLAVING AND KILLING ALL OF US.
Whereas NONE of that dystopian BS is true. We do ourselves a DISSERVICE and hand our genocidal adversaries unwarranted LEVERAGE by perpetuating the LIE.
And in truth, about the only limit so far determined for geologic hydrocarbons is the rate of reservoir REPLENISHMENT from somewhere deep within the Earth, while providing a VAST EXTERNAL energy AND nutrient resource for the planetary biosphere.
If MAGMA was exploited as an energy source, would we have any fear of it “running out”? Imagine the scare campaigns they could manufacture to ban THAT.
Pat from Vic we’re well aware of the alternative theory for the creation of oil, i.e. abiogenic oil formation. For the purposes the debate and what is generally accepted as the biological formation theory, then it’s reasonable to make that point in context. Oil at least, is a “natural” substance, so the demonize it as something foreign and harmful to the environment, is disingenuous. Even when it’s spilt on a coastline the environment eventually recovers and it’s not the apocalypse that the environmentalists make such events to be.
Tony, there are only two remaining functional refineries in Australia. All the rest have been closed down over the past decades.
Thanks for your comments Karl. Operation Good Oil is a great example of people taking action to do something about the woke disease afflicting our civilization. Please feel free to send any updates to cairnsnews@protonmail.com. We would certainly like to be updated about how the shareholder vote count is going.
[quote]. ‘They figure the best way to do this is to sign up more shareholders and then vote the current management out’ [unquote].
Exactly! Exactly!, Exactly!
When will the people get it, that gaining control of your nation comes with personal ownership of your nation’s assets.
How can somebody just happen to live in say NZ, and say wow, cool, – now all the nation’s assets magically belong to me? – er, – now what?
Unfortunately, taking back control of your country does in fact come with adult responsibilities.
Instead of squandering thousands of dollars on tattoos, body piercings, piss ups, drugs, propaganda movies, teenage toys, and other unproductive expenditures of surplus income, if the vast majority of Kiwis or Ozzies bought shares into the key infrastructure companies of their nation, they would immediately become a ‘part-owner’ of these companies: ie., – a shareholder in their nation’s key infrastructure.
As a part-owner of a company, it is they, who then have right to democratically vote which direction they want the company to go, and if necessary, vote out CEO’s, director’s, etc, whose views are not aligned with their own national interests.
I can’t remember the exact details off the top of my head?, but basically, if a majority shareholder of a PLC company reaches the 30% threshold, they are then legally obliged to buy out the remaining shareholders [something like that?]. And its because of this corporate legality, why the largest shareholders do not overstep the 29% mark.
But what this means is that even a fat-cat majority share owner, can always be outvoted by the smaller share owners who own the other 71% of the company.
As soon as people realise this, and start regaining legal mass ownership of their key national assets, they will soon be living freely on the fat of the land: – and they and the grandchildren will guide the future direction of these national treasures.
As the ‘Real Government,’ meaning the Central Banks, deliberately impoverish and destroy national economies by the issuance of their only product, ie, ‘debt/inflation,’ – then why do you think they regard energy producers as their natural arch-enemy?
Yes indeed, its because there is only one product which enriches an economy and destroys the Central Bank’s inflation, yup!, you’ve guessed it, – ‘cheap energy.’
Wow I never thought my Campaign to BUY BACK CONTROL of MARSDEN POINT OIL REFINERY & get it Operational Once Again ASAP!
Would reach as Far as Cairns Australia but the fact is Our World is small compared to the BIG Picture & the Fact that a very small Group of People want to Destroy Civilization??? Cutting ✂️ off New Zealand’s FUEL Supplies is now so Possible there’s approximately 5-6 FUEL Tanker Ships Now coming to NZ every week, Well there was when Marsden Point Oil Refinery was CLOSED DOWN April Fool’s day 2022 but in more recently times over the 6-8 Months the numbers Appare to be get less each Month even though the Number coming to NZ Annually seem to be far more than they Predicted would need to be used to Supply NZ!
Interesting Time we have something Happening shortly you can Follow me Karl Barkley on FB or our website http://www.OperationGoodOil.co.nz
Solar power wouldn’t work in New Zealand because there’s always a big cloud over everything, that is even the translation of the Maori name, the climate has never changed there
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Tes… I agree, Marsden Point should be retained, also that the eight (ten) refineries in Australia should be maintained. But to say more here and now would be to prematurely show our hand, the reading of which our opposition would be moved to amputate.
Admittedly, the prospects for the future look tenuous but a glance behind the scenes reveals a situation that may very well work in the favour of NZ and Australia. If you want to know more I would be happy to share. tonyryan43@protonmail.com
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In the 1980’s I converted my utility to run on gas. At the beginning the price per litre was 28 cents very cheap alongside petrol although you get slightly less kilometres per litre. I was told at time of conversion gas price would never go up as we had such a big supply. That was true for several years until Australia started to supply Japan at, I think 7 cents per litre. By the time I bought my next vehicle about twenty years later the price of gas had risen that much that the conversion was not worth while.
This is how governments and industry ruin an economy. Pure greed!
I was absolutely disgusted to hear that Ardern allowed the shut-down of Marsden Point refinery.
Having it’s own refinery allowed NZ to purchase crude from any source it chose, gave NZ autonomy on it’s production, eliminating the fickleness of international shipping costs, and also restrictions on supply that could be pressured by those that control Singapore oil.
So what if productions costs made the refined fuels a little dearer than if imported, NZ had autonomy, and there is no price on that.
When I went to the UK in year 2000, unleaded was 90p/litre, while here in Australia it was around 90c, so 2.5 times more expensive!!
So even if locally refined product is more expensive (for the fuel companies) than purchasing from overseas, well then adjust the wholesale price to cover margins, people would be happy to pay a little more knowing that they weren’t dependent on risk of supply, pricing and embargo’s by another foreign national. Crude could be purchased from Arabia, Russia, Columbia, no single point of failure.
Countries set their own prices for fuel, taxes and excises and tariffs can be adjusted, pretty much prices (ie taxes) are set at most pain people would be willing to bear cranked back one notch.
And a factet that many wont know… With the refinery being 165km north of the main distribution centre (Auckland) they had to get all the fuel types down to Auckland, diesel, unleaded, super, kerosene etc, so how many pipelines did they put in? Well, just one. One single pipeline.
The refinery would send down say diesel, then unleaded, then kero, all carefully timed and switched to the correct tanks at the Auckland end, with the mixed buffer segment being diverted to a holding tank, which in quiet times was sent back up the pipe to Marsden to be re- sorted.
Talk about Kiwi Ingenuity.
The author said – “… crude oil and coal is basically the result of naturall biological processes anyway…”
Very misinformed, one might even say “brainwashed”.
Geologic hydrocarbons, INCLUDING coal, cannot be plausibly explained by the thoroughly entrenched “biologic source” narrative. Contamination by organic detritus does NOT equate to origin.
In any case, that delusional dogma has no particular bearing on the dichotomy of geologic versus “renewable” energy sources, beyond the realisation that geologic hydrocarbons originate deep within the Earth through unknown processes, and apart from a finite RATE of replenishment appear to be UNLIMITED.
And there’s the somewhat significant FACT, which is METICULOUSLY obscured, denied and INVERTED by our genocidal Satan-worshipping Globalist adversaries, that all life DEPENDS and THRIVES on atmospheric CO2.
So it’s patently self-evident that if we can ACCESS geologic hydrocarbons for energy, then it’s UNIVERSALLY in our best interests to do so. Similar logic can be applied to the subject of Nuclear power, ESPECIALLY relevant to Australia with 40% of the Earth’s known Uranium reserves but with a PERMANENT MORATORIUM on Australian use and a determination to EXPORT it all to the rest of the world.
And we have enough coal reserves in Australia to last the country for a THOUSAND YEARS – but we’re not allowed to USE it, we just EXPORT it to the rest of the world instead. And being one of the largest Natural Gas producers, we’re not allowed to USE it, it’s now being BANNED from any new home construction and we DOMESTICALLY pay the HIGHEST PRICES ON EARTH for it, but we EXPORT MOST OF IT at dirt cheap BARGAIN BASEMENT prices to the rest of the world instead.
So YAY creepy Bill’s best little mate in the whole wide world AnAL! And HOORAY for the foreign-owned COMMONWEALTH OF AUSTRALIA CORPORATION! You Go Girls! Let’s keep SUCKING THE LIFE out of Australia and the Australian people until there’s only a dry dead husk scattered with bones remaining. Maybe you can grind that into dust and sell it off to someone too.
Meanwhile, Go the Kiwis! Let’s get some good old-fashioned Common Sense back into the national psyche and look after the PEOPLE’S best interests.
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