What Energy Companies Are Really Thinking

Jo Bryant,

If energy companies actually told the truth, it might look something like this !!!!

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Published by Jo Bryant

I was born in the land of Banjo Paterson, gum trees, and weather extremes. I am a freelance photographer. I love to make images that make people happy. To capture forever a precious moment. I am also a freelance writer/editor. I live in the Bay of Plenty, New Zealand, but still like to claim my Australian heritage. I graduated with a Bachelor of Communications in 2008. I am writing my first novel. I love to write poetry, short stories, and also write for the web. And there is nothing that is on a par with a sunny summer's day spent at Waihi Beach.

22 Comments

    1. Thanks Izaak. The video was just so true to fact really. I loved it. We are having a lot of debate here at the moment. Our government is selling of drilling rights all over the place. Even in environmentally fragile areas.

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        1. They want to give fracking a go here Izaak. In one of the most earthquake prone countries in the world. The mind boggles at the greed that drives this insanity.

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  6. our govt is the same … I think corporations have all the power now … with their money they make sure they get the government they want

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    1. Sadly I think you are right. Our government does whatever the big corporations want. The thing that made NZ Kiwi…the doing what is right…is long gone.
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        1. I sure think so.
          This is our absolute idiot Minister for Energy.

          Then recently this happened:

          3 News can reveal the Government is opening up the Department of Conservation’s (DOC) biggest forest park for oil and gas exploration.

          That came as news even to the minister who signed it off, with Simon Bridges admitting today he had never heard of the park.

          Victoria Forest Park is 200,000 hectares – DOC’s biggest forest park, and is described by the department as “pristine” and “untouched”.

          Last week the Government signed off a block offer – the biggest area ever of sea and land for potential oil and gas exploration. That included huge chunks of land on the West Coast. In the middle of one is Victoria Forest Park.

          None of it includes what’s known as Schedule 4 land – the conservation estate National promised it would not drill.

          A forest park like Victoria is one step down from a national park and has less protection.

          Mr Bridges says there will still be controls like getting resource consent before any drilling can take place.

          “There will be the Department of Conservation and local authorities that an operator needs to contend with,” he says.

          But opponents are using the potential oversight to go on the attack.

          “It is a shocking indictment for the callous disregard that Simon Bridges has for our conservation estate that he is opening up thousands of square kilometres,” says Green Party co-leader Russel Norman.

          DOC describes Victoria Forest Park as having “untouched landscapes with stunning river, lake and mountain scenery, as well as pristine beech forest. There are several ecological areas and a wildlife corridor.” But Mr Bridges was not even aware it existed.

          “I think what I do know is that this is the West Coast, there’s been mining and this sort of activity for over a hundred years,” he says.

          National parks will remain safe from drilling but a forest park described as “untouched” is on the block.

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          2. New Zealanders have changed a lot in the 20 years I have been here. They are much more apathetic. The attitude is more “I am just 1 person…what can I do?” Saddens me. And even if they do protest…the government ignores it.

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