LAST week NZ Resources Minister Shane Jones, stood up in Parliament and held up a small jar of crude oil from the Maui gas field off the coast of Taranaki. “With your blessings Mr Speaker, I would like to take the lid off and invite the Green Party to sniff it.”
He went on to express concerns that if he did the same to the Maori Party members they might claim ownership of it. It was a great stunt from a talented public speaker.
But New Zealand’s legions of brainwashed young greenies inhabiting the media were much less enthusiastic, and attempted to spin all sorts of reasons why the government’s $200 million budget for gas exploration was just not a great idea in this alleged age of “green transition”.
The policy change technically violates New Zealand’s commitment to “net zero by 2050” although the country still has legislation enforcing the stupid ideology put in place by previous Labor governments.
Stuff.co (aka Stuffed) journalist Glenn McConnell, quoted “the Green Party and other commentators” as saying they feared Jones had “taken the lid off a very expensive can of worms. They say he is putting international trade at risk”.
“In various free trade deals, the New Zealand Government has made promises that it would not unnecessarily fund any fossil fuel industries. It has also promised to wind down the production and use of fossil fuels in New Zealand,” he stated, referring to some of the economic sabotage by the previous Labor Green-Left regime of Jacinda Ardern.
He also said a more recent agreement signed just months ago by Trade Minister Todd McClay, committed New Zealand to “eliminating harmful fossil fuel subsidies”. Who on earth would be making such demands on a trade partner, we ask? A country with lots of oil and gas for sale?
Regardless, the Luxon-led coalition is calling it an “investment fund”, so technically it’s not a subsidy.
Dan Brunskill, another young journo from the online business media outfit Interest.co.nz also seemed confused as to whether restarting gas exploration was a good business idea but went on to explain how output from existing gas fields had declined and was now insufficient to meet demand from electricity generators and industrial users. Hello?
“When power shortages hit last year, it was partly due to the lack of natural gas — though the link to the exploration ban remains speculative,” he wrote. Did he miss the obvious link between the absence of a local gas exploration industry and a shortage of gas?
He further explained “even if he succeeds” Shane Jones’ plan could take a decade before new gas fields begin supplying energy. “Critics argue that this time and money should be spent transitioning away from natural gas to lower-emission energy sources.”
Yes, critics fixated on the non-issue of carbon emissions would suggest fermented carrot juice as an alternative fuel if there was the slightest hint if might work, let alone the stupidly expensive hydrogen and the wind/solar unreliables.
Brunskill then goes on to make another admission that torpedoes his own scepticism: “Natural gas makes up only a small share of New Zealand’s overall energy use, but it remains essential in regions like Taranaki and underpins the electricity supply during dry weather.”
Indeed, New Zealand is heavily dependent on hydro-electricity, but in a dry season it’s just another “unrelliable”, which is why the country has a coal-gas 1.4MW power station at Huntly, south of Auckland to supply reliable baseload electricity.
Brunskill goes on to further torpedo his sceptical tone: “The drop in gas production last year, combined with low hydro storage, sent electricity prices to record highs. This forced manufacturers like Methanex’s Motunui plant, Winstone Pulp’s mills, and Oji’s Penrose facility to scale back or shut down.”
Yes, well done Ardern Labor-Greens: Their methodology of economic sabotage by destruction of energy supply was showing promise as a workable model. Excuse the sarcasm.
New Zealand is somewhat lucky that the current PM Luxon at least has some understanding of the role of energy in making an economy function. Now Jones’ job is to find an interested partner in reviving the gas and oil industry that provided Kiwis with one of their biggest economic booms back in the 1970s.
But the lesson in economic sabotage was still not understood by the Interest.co.nz journalist: “Still, critics argue that the solution isn’t more oil and gas exploration, but helping these industries transition away from fossil fuels. That could mean switching to electricity or hydrogen, alongside investment in batteries and renewable generation to manage supply.”
Young Mr Brunskill needs to look across the Tasman a bit more where, for starters, he would have learned that that all the hype around “the great green hydrogen dream” has been falling in a heap because of lack of customers and finance.
The $15 billion Desert Bloom hydrogen project in the Northern Territory was abandoned in May while Twiggy Forrest of Fortescue cut another 90 jobs in his failing hydrogen projects.
The Australian reported: “The Albanese government’s $2bn program has also come under attack, with none of the six short-listed prohjects now considered bankable after financial sponsors left or the developments were paused, Singapore-based HySiights said.”
As for batteries, only a bunny would consider them as a viable source of electricity for heavy industry. They are essentially a stop gap measure to smooth out the frequent gaps in wind and solar power supply. Gas and coal continue to provide the basis of a secure energy supply.
Habibullo Abdussamatov said in 2012 the next mini ice age will begin in 2017.
There Will Be No Climate Catastrophe: MIT Professor Dr Richard Lindzen – Climate Depot
According to Lindzen, all recent predictions of climate catastrophe have proven false, and future ones will be as well. “2030 will pass. 2050 will pass. Fifty years will pass. There will be no climate catastrophe,” he says.
In the interview, Lindzen thoroughly discusses what climate scientists know about climate change and its processes, as well as the half-truths and outright lies propagated by those proclaiming a climate crisis. He addresses topics such as the limited capacity of CO2 to warm the planet, its actual role on Earth, misleading claims about the increasing frequency of extreme weather events, the absurdity of climate policies and the future of energy.
Dr Richard Lindzen is an internationally recognized American atmospheric scientist and MIT emeritus professor whose contributions to climate science are significant.
https://www.climatedepot.com/2025/05/29/there-will-be-no-climate-catastrophe-mit-professor-dr-richard-lindzen/
Teal-ism works !!! Thanks to feminist pre-programming, Klaus Swab’s other horrible minion S H-Y has been rolled out too, pushing for keeping under-16’s locked out of Tiktok because it is not correctly “educational”, they are scared of the reach it has in the elections, which can only get worse, but more important, they want to ban under-16’s from the internet by Xmas, this is the MaD bill mk2, so we all have to log on to the internet using our personal number which will be allocated via the Reseerve Bank of Australia, ( a branch of Swissy’s BIS ) which also produces one of the world’s most high priced passports which is only good for 9 years or so, despite a claimed life of ten years. So the BIS will be getting our “PayID” and our passport number and our internet log-in, all at the same time, Xmas 2025 – CBDCs one small step for a man, one giant leap etc., biblical.
The guns are gone, our corporate ID is gone, Deagel was saying 1/3 of us will be gone ( old people and UEs ), Deagel did not mention replaced, 2026 looks like it might be eventful ( for some ), NOT THAT WE WILL HEAR MUCH ABOUT IT
Looks like hideous Jabintaya has been rehabbed reprogrammed and now redeployed by her master Klaus Swab in Swissyland, he has also redeployed horrible Kayla Murnain who kept secret a huge CCP donation to the ALP, naughty naughty. We heard Swab a year or so ago saying “We have to rebuild trust” and here it is, the same old turds rolled in new glitter, brought to you by your ABC. Of course it’s “your” because “you’re” paying for it, $1b per year.
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The funny thing is, solar energy plus carbon from CO2 and hydrogen from water already produces hydrocarbons in many forms, from plankton to trees to “bio-fuel” algae etc and was already doing this for millions of years before politicians came along.
We are at the peak of the solar cycles now and 5 years from now it will be getting very cold in NZ, the entire country is already smothered by a famous cloud which is misleadingly claimed to be white when it’s grey. Some of their islands are sinking and some others must be rising, we don’t hear much about islands rising but the fake news by now seems to have convinced all the Pacific Islanders that all of their islands are sinking rapidly. In reality the cheap drainage and optimistic engineering is the problem in most of the disaster video these days, which itself is increasingly easy to fake.
The crooked M$M will be told by its owners to create fake glacier melting and fake islands sinking because they are still hammering their Global Warming s hard as they can, even though the Greens Party and Teals Party voters are the only ones who still believe it, and Trump’s policy is to “put a dagger through the heart of the Climate Change Religion”. Or did they say “stake”, can’t remember.
Meanwhile Twiggy is pushing on with his “Green Steel” and refuses to build a train line across from Queensland for the coal, instead wants to convert solar electricity to hydrogen. All his experts have been refocused to this task. What are materials that hydrogen at elevated pressures and temperatures cannot corrode ? Only copper and stainless steel come to mind, one is not very strong and the other is expensive and harder to work. The best material may not yet be invented. Imagine containing a tiny hydrogen gas particle under pressure compared to a hydrocarbon much bigger and liquid at room temperature with negligible pressure.
The hydrocarbon protects from rust while the hydrogen is massively corrosive.
Maybe Twiggy should get his experts to combine the hydrogen with carbon and he might be onto a winner.
That Jones fellow is a good speaker… If he had only addressed the issue of the Carbon Fraud, decoupling from WHO and nationalising a NZ bank to be able to level the playing field that the IMF, WEF, WHO etc tilted way over towards the worldwide ‘Controllers’ side he would be considered as a true ‘NZ First’ person.
Because he didn’t , his speech only prolongs the slow death of NZ. (same for Australia and most other western nations).
The ‘Controllers’ are clever power mongers that use divide and conquer, money magic, bribery, corruption and putting their ‘people’ into politics to keep the control mechanism in play.
So…
a REAL ‘New Zealand First’ needs to be able to uncouple from the Controllers influence.
Same with all other western countries.
Until that happens… learn to duck and weave.
NZ Owned by Rothchild Inc since ???? source https://www.infonews.co.nz/news.cfm?id=17241 Bankrupt they say? Ain’t they ALL.
I’ve also been wondering about the recent green lights for the oil, gas and coal industries given the International Treaties signed by Australia in prep for a ‘Net Zero’ future.
The intention is to bankrupt Western nations via imposed energy poverty. Maybe the plan is to keep the export free-resources ball rolling for a while, then sell it off to Industry Super funds as a going concern. Then the BIS, or whoever is responsible for enforcing penalties according to the treaties, levels fines against the Super Funds who are holding redundant and unsaleable portfolios of yesterday’s industries. Looks like Canada gets it in the neck first.
Hey folks,
Everyone interested in Prosperity, raise your hand!
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No, not you Australia. Nor you Germany, France, Britain, Holland, Spain, Canada.
To Brianjanz
I saw your post after I had posted mine and you expound even further.
Any Corporate NZ Parliamentarian like Winston Peters who has been in Parliament for as long as the Global Agenda has been turning it’s wheels behind the scenes, is a Globalist.
We need to consider that same principle here in Australia.
Winston made no mistake in choosing Ardern when he chose who would lead NZ through Agenda 21 as part of the Globalist plan.
He uses his indigenous status as a soft diversion but when he mocked a protestor calling out about Palestine, kicking them out, laughing as if it didn’t matter, that to me was a defining moment.
I think the NZ people are in for more trouble, just like Australians as they ramp up the fear again.
With an emergency warning practice via their mobile towers (not phones) using seemingly extremely high frequencies (which reportedly made people feel sick/dizzy) just these past few weeks, you get a sense of what they are ‘practicing’ for.
At the very least, they seem to be trying out different? frequencies with the groundwork laid.
The Globalists in NZ have the same lockstep agenda.
Funny how Australian Politicians talk about gas off shore and then NZ Politicians suddenly talk about gas off shore too.
Turning away from the Climate Agenda?
only when they turn away from those who dictate it.
He’s a slick speaker but I wonder who his buddies are. He wants foreign investors with a co-investment model. The foreign investors are not sitting around with ‘fear of reliability’ I have seen their interviews. They are just sitting around waiting for the announcement to be made.
He has $200 million for his BBB Agenda. (NZ has $200 million sitting around?)
He still acknowledges the UN Paris Accord guidelines (they do not have to include food producing options)…how generous of them.
He wants a Marina, Development of Dry Dock and the movement of sand projects in Northland.
He calls others who may want a more clean, green less ‘developed’ NZ “marginal, frivolous, with irrelevant beliefs”.
He calls out the wind projects calling them a “mung bean pronoun of wind” while he sells the fear of having no lights on.
My guess he has never ventured into the world of mung beans. He should try one. It might make him look a bit healthier.
He’s going to get the 17,18,19 and 20 year old young adults off the couch and off the meth.
By turning the lights on?
Or by throwing out the WHO,WEF and UN in time before the next lockdown?
It depends what New Zealanders want and not everyone likes a bulldozer.
By the way he is talking, they won’t get a choice anyway.
Of course everyone wants the lights on.
The devil is always in the detail.
Bring in the Developers and you change a place forever.
NZ First has done nothing for NZ and Jones is a Snake Oil salesman. Get it?
Jones is not wearing a suit which is the required dress code as per parliamentary regulations. He dresses halfway between code and radical activist. Message?
OMV was recently on the market for sale at around $550 million and NZ did not purchase. Instead the government reopened mining and OMV removed their company from sale.
NZ First aka Winston Peters closed Grey Hound racing and now there is a large Court case coming to maintain Greyhound Racing. Watch this space?
There are 8 NZ First MPs in parliament. They are all List MPs. That is unelected?
Peters used to be able to get himself elected. No more?
Norway with State owned oil has a Sovereign Fund of $1.6 trillion. NZ broke? and Australia not far behind.
NZ and Norway discovered oil back in the 1960s. Norway went State owned and NZ did a deal or sold out to the Majors, depending on ones point of view?
Gold and other minerals in NZ being mined by foreign companies?
NZ farms by stealth being sold to offshore corporations to be planted in pine trees? NZ parliament towing the Globalist line?
NZ did not need IKEA? Who also own farmland for pine trees?
NZ closed saw mills yet plant pines. Agenda?
There is no added value in logs. NZ closed paper mills and now imports fish and chip paper from Sweden?
Fonterra about to sell retail brands which will surely end up in foreign ownership? Westland Milk got into trouble and Winston Peters appeared to do nothing while China bought in? NZ First are not NZ First.
Note: The ? marks have been used as a highlighter only.
Oil and coal are not fossil fuels. Oil is not decomposing dinosaurs and coal is not decaying forests. Oil is abiotic. The gas is driven off the magma. The condensate from gas is oil. Oil through a chemical bacterial process solidifies into coal. Peat is something else. Brown coal?
The abiotic process has been known about for hundreds of years and Russia proved it in the early fifties.
NZs Great Basin oil field is according to private sources in the region of one trillion barrels which makes it the largest or second largest in the world.
The Hunt family drilled the Great Basin back in the 1970s?
Life is a cycle…in all ways! The good follows the bad, then to be followed by good.etc.
The wheel is slowly turning and people are waking up….common sense will return for some decades until idiots rise up and destroy it all again .
Hreat speech, I genuinely wish we jad someone of his caliber HERE in Australia.
I love NZ, but the policies of the Ardern Gov scared the hell outta ma. I thing NZ would be an amazing country to buy property…..BUT not if the ghost/influence/anti-rights of the individual are diminished in leau of support for the WEF & WHO when another “Plandemic” rears its ugly face. I honestly can’t think of more than a literal handful of Politicians here that would mirror what that man is saying & I find that VERY SAD! I genuinely hope New Zealanders get their Country back, the way it was before the “Plandemic” & the Ardern Regime decimated the rights of its people. Looks like change is in the wind & thats a good thing….I only wish we had sone semblance of that here.
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There is at least a shred of sanity in the New Zealand government, Q.E.D.