The first is that Genesis would later in the day announce their intention to import more coal and would be doing so for the next couple of years
They talked of the unreliability of the so-called renewables. It's not just coal of course, but Indonesian coal, which is not exactly top of the line environmentally.
The second fact came in a ministerial statement to the house from Simeon Brown, who told us of the lack of gas production this year so far. It's about 28% down and this is the equivalent of all the domestic usage in the country for two years.
Think about that. You and I, everyone who has gas and all that we use for two years is what they have not produced so far this year.
So as the ship loads of coal start arriving MBIE has set up a group to monitor where we go from here and how we do it, to get an accurate picture as to what's really going on specifically.
They will also set about reversing a few laws around licences and exploration. The trouble with that part is our reputation as a reliable player in the market is shot and needs rebuilding and then even if the drills arrived tomorrow the answer is years away.
Which brings us back to how we got here. Jacinda Ardern.
Yet again the carnage her and her fellow travellers, many of whom are still in Parliament and present during Simeon Brown's statement, has arrived at our doorstep as we head into a winter that, even at the best of times, we struggle to keep warm in.
Beyond the democratic mechanism of booting idiots out of office, how bad and how catastrophic does the damage to our lives have to be before you mount an argument that suggests these wreckers are the worst Government we have seen in our lifetime?
How many who got sucked in by it all now regret putting their faith and vote behind the idiocy that has driven us here?
Of those who are left listening to Simeon lay it out so starkly yesterday, who stands up and proudly backs their decisions?
Who defends the licence bans, the lack of gas and the importation of coal, as they told us renewables are the only way?
You’ve rarely seen such a catastrophic example of the cart before the horse.
We have rarely lived through such chaotic, bordering on criminal, negligence.
Mike Hosking is a New Zealand television and radio broadcaster. He currently hosts The Mike Hosking Breakfast show on NewstalkZB on weekday mornings - where this article was sourced.
The second fact came in a ministerial statement to the house from Simeon Brown, who told us of the lack of gas production this year so far. It's about 28% down and this is the equivalent of all the domestic usage in the country for two years.
Think about that. You and I, everyone who has gas and all that we use for two years is what they have not produced so far this year.
So as the ship loads of coal start arriving MBIE has set up a group to monitor where we go from here and how we do it, to get an accurate picture as to what's really going on specifically.
They will also set about reversing a few laws around licences and exploration. The trouble with that part is our reputation as a reliable player in the market is shot and needs rebuilding and then even if the drills arrived tomorrow the answer is years away.
Which brings us back to how we got here. Jacinda Ardern.
Yet again the carnage her and her fellow travellers, many of whom are still in Parliament and present during Simeon Brown's statement, has arrived at our doorstep as we head into a winter that, even at the best of times, we struggle to keep warm in.
Beyond the democratic mechanism of booting idiots out of office, how bad and how catastrophic does the damage to our lives have to be before you mount an argument that suggests these wreckers are the worst Government we have seen in our lifetime?
How many who got sucked in by it all now regret putting their faith and vote behind the idiocy that has driven us here?
Of those who are left listening to Simeon lay it out so starkly yesterday, who stands up and proudly backs their decisions?
Who defends the licence bans, the lack of gas and the importation of coal, as they told us renewables are the only way?
You’ve rarely seen such a catastrophic example of the cart before the horse.
We have rarely lived through such chaotic, bordering on criminal, negligence.
Mike Hosking is a New Zealand television and radio broadcaster. He currently hosts The Mike Hosking Breakfast show on NewstalkZB on weekday mornings - where this article was sourced.
5 comments:
How did we get into the gas shortage mess?
Two words..
Jacinda
Ardern.
That is all.
The Government or more accurately the State are solely responsible for all 'messes', or the problem, reaction, solution crises that they foist on to us.
We would be better off without them, don't you think?
There are three items that need considering.
1.- Sadly I reflect back to Muldoon Govt, and the 3 business actions that were created then -
1.A - Manpouri Power Station - then a much needed requirement to the ever growing need for general electricity use as a supplying a new industry in Invercargill- the aluminum smelter. It is a pity that a second under ground power complex was not built in the same area.
>> Will not happen now - Green Party attitudes!
1.B - Marsden point - designed to 'protect our fuel needs' going into the future as the OPEC group was 'starting to be considered a potential threat".
Question - what problems have we had with this facility?
>> Guess who started the 'shut down process'?? - Also think job losses.
1.C - deep sea mining off the Taranaki coast - the end product became a 'boon' to industry in Taranaki, then and later - and for the homeowner Natural gas as both a means for cooking and heating - until the last Labour Govt (at the behest of the Greens) "turned the taps off'.
>> think - close of a/and or many business functions - &&& unemployment!
2. Coal - I wonder how many New Zealander's knew/ know what a major export commodity it was? We have sufficient coal on the West Coast for our needs, but the Greens thought otherwise - so to did labour/ strange that when one of the biggest Unions is the Coal Miners Union.
>> ditto actions to above!
3. - David Lange - the late, not lamented 'Twat" that he was. If he had listened to reason. rational, logic - we would have had Nuclear Power stations - BUT no, he 'thought he knew otherwise', listened to voices that said 'bad things'-
>> and suddenly we became a "Nation held at arms length by the United States of America, both for military relations (not that mattered to Helen Clark) and also trade". It took many people/ some time to change that attitude - TO SOME DEGREE, but not completely.
The above all have occurred under a Labour Govt - duly elected to office by The People of New Zealand.
Jacinda Ardern only kept the 'momentum going' aided and abetted by a group of both elected & List MP's (with exception to Willie Jackson) - many who had sat in Opposition, for 9 years, and obviously 'learnt nothing'.
Can we hope for 'better days ahead'??
Mike, it’s the result of giving people whom are ignorant of all the facts the power to make decisions that rule the country.
Example. Aunty Helen. Still pushing a vision on anti nuclear when Nuclear energy is a very viable solution to our current problems.
Readers might want to search SNR nuclear reactors.
One, small reactor can produce 300MW and requires limited maintenance. Compare that to pipes running all over Taupo to produce less than a quarter of that. You tell me what’s more damaging to the environment!
Back to Helen. Do you think she has any idea what an SNR reactor is, I would bet your snooker table she hasn’t got a clue. Yet, the media and the uninformed take what she says as gospel, and so we remain in the dark ages in regards to clean , efficient energy.
Now back to the gas problem. Give idiots the reins and the country will be driven over a cliff. We’re there now. How about we start listening to Power Engineers on how to solve these issues instead of old politicians and the light headed Greens.
NZ has plenty of electricity ; it's just in the wrong place at the bottom of the South Island being given away for almost free to a large international company.
Closing Tiwai would result in few thousand job losses, no big deal in the scheme of things.
Apologies Invercargill, sorry it's a fact.
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