Transpower is asking us to save power for a couple of hours.
I can’t be the only one who sees the problem with the previous government’s policies.
They taxed the productive sector – tradies, farmers and others who need utes for work, to subsidise buyers of electric cars when we don’t have enough power.
One reason for that is that Labour stopped exploration for gas which resulted in the need to import more coal – and Genesis is having to do that again:
They taxed the productive sector – tradies, farmers and others who need utes for work, to subsidise buyers of electric cars when we don’t have enough power.
One reason for that is that Labour stopped exploration for gas which resulted in the need to import more coal – and Genesis is having to do that again:
Power generator Genesis Energy expects to be buying coal again by the end of this year, in part due to a quickly diminishing gas supply.
Genesis said it aimed to maintain its solid fuel stockpile “to keep the lights on” for its customers through the “yo-yo” effects of the energy transition away from carbon dioxide emission. . .
They put the green cart in front of the alternative power source horses.
That’s Labour’s legacy – a policy that was supposed to be better for carbon emissions making them worse and a potential power shortage just as winter bites.
Ele Ludemann is a North Otago farmer and journalist, who blogs HERE - where this article was sourced.
3 comments:
Yep, just another indicator of the lefts utter incompetence. The lefts vision of perfection...a country called South Africa. A divided violent poor country where the power is cut to most people for 8 hours a day. In that aspect the left were well on their way to success
We've been importing coal from Indonesia to keep Huntly running for the last several years. Now we need to import more coal to provide more generation. The imported coal is of poor quality. So why not mine our own coal, which is of much higher quality, would provide employment, and save foreign currency ? Where is Shane Jones on this matter ?
Notice the Iwi are fairly quiet about coal etc. Once it is being mined it will suddenly become their most treasured toanga, only to be parted with when vast amounts of money salve their grief.
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