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Ika Makimaki
Ika Makimaki
@pezmico@mastodon.nz  ·  activity timestamp 4 hours ago

Imported LNG?

Why, oh why, are we under the thumb of absolute #FossilFools?

We could have energy independence with cheap offshore wind and solar power. We could phase out fossil fuels and transition to a carbon free economy.

But not with these crapitalist bootlickers in charge.

This is tying us to expensive imports of dirty fossils, subsidising war and sacrificing independence.

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(not to mention media stenography of this nonsense decision... LNG will not save you money. It will cost you for generations)

https://www.rnz.co.nz/news/political/586332/watch-taranaki-s-liquefied-natural-gas-import-facility-expected-to-save-new-zealanders-millions

#NZPol

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pooparse
pooparse
@pooparse@mastodon.social replied  ·  activity timestamp 52 minutes ago

@pezmico From the article which made me scoff:

RNZ In-Depth's Kirsty Johnston in November reported the response from "almost every corner - other than the gas industry itself - was a collective groan", with sector commentators calling it a "band-aid" solution that "doesn't make logical sense".

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Moya
Moya
@CaptiveSteel@mastodon.nz replied  ·  activity timestamp 2 hours ago

@pezmico
Because we refuse to general strike their arses out of OUR seats.

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locus
locus
@locuslebe.bsky.social@bsky.brid.gy replied  ·  activity timestamp 3 hours ago

💯 pissed off by this for many reasons, all critical: 1 Shit economics & underestmation of cost of LNG terminal 2 Extends AoNZ dependency on international LNG supply & price 3 Burdens NZ taxpayers who will never use LNG 4 Huge opportunity cost of LNG versus solar, wind, hydro, geothermal 5 GHGs💥

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Jon Sullivan
Jon Sullivan
@joncounts@mastodon.nz replied  ·  activity timestamp 3 hours ago

@pezmico Sheesh. That’s mindbogglingly backwards looking. Can these people not even imagine a better future for NZ?

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Jack Yan (甄爵恩)
Jack Yan (甄爵恩)
@jackyan@mastodon.social replied  ·  activity timestamp 3 hours ago

@pezmico Muldoon tried to give us energy independence.

https://goodoil.news/muldoons-vision-vs-todays-technocrats/

However, he is usually cast as the villain, though for good reasons, running roughshod over the environment and due process. But I still believe the motive for synthetic fuels and domestically produced natural gas was sound (noting that EV and solar tech had not advanced sufficiently in the late 1970s).

THE GOOD OIL

Muldoon’s Vision vs Today’s Technocrats

How NZ Super was built by a patriot and undermined by consultants.
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Ika Makimaki
Ika Makimaki
@pezmico@mastodon.nz replied  ·  activity timestamp 3 hours ago

The typo stays, goddammit. 😤

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@enobacon@urbanists.social replied  ·  activity timestamp 2 hours ago

@pezmico stenography 😒

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Heliograph
Heliograph
@Heliograph@mastodon.au replied  ·  activity timestamp 3 hours ago

@pezmico nice trick 😹 now you made me read the whole thing thrice and I still haven't found the typo blobcat_smilehappyeyes

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Ika Makimaki
Ika Makimaki
@pezmico@mastodon.nz replied  ·  activity timestamp 3 hours ago

@Heliograph "crapitalist"

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Heliograph
Heliograph
@Heliograph@mastodon.au replied  ·  activity timestamp 3 hours ago

@pezmico hahahahaha I actually thought you meant that and loved it 😹

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