Information Opinion The future of mining in NZ is pretty grim under our Green-aligned, unproductive government. At the rate it spends money, anyone of mediocre intelligence would figure out that producing money should be high on the agenda. Not so. Their much touted climate emergency ranks above growing the
Stuart Smith National MP Kaikoura It is amazing to see the unrest in the Netherlands with 30,000 Dutch farmers taking to the streets with their tractors to protest against government climate-change policies. The final straw was the plan to limit nitrogen fertilisers, which will in turn lead to
The definition of insanity is said to be doing the same thing and expecting different results. But as our elites push relentlessly for the same energy policies that have crippled Germany and Britain, blacked out Texas during a winter freeze, and sent electricity prices through the roof everywhere they’ve
Remember when you were a kid, and your mum asked: if your friends jumped off a cliff, would you do it, too? The green-left would already be hurtling down the precipice before they stopped to say “Yes!” Germany jumped off the “renewable” cliff, long ago, with Britain at their
If you want to really understand what’s behind a particular policy agenda, it’s always illuminating to see who is driving it and, more importantly, who is benefiting from it. Nowhere less importantly than in the clamouring over climate change and “renewables”. Who is driving this agenda? Not ordinary
Paul Driessen cfact.org Paul Driessen is senior policy advisor for CFACT and author of Cracking Big Green and Eco-Imperialism: Green Power – Black Death. Progressives have long wanted to tax unrealized gains from billionaires’ stocks, bonds, land holdings, homes, artwork, cars, yachts and other property. As appealing as this
John Maunder Over 50 years ago, in April 1968, when I was an Assistant Professor in the Department of Geography in the University of Victoria in Canada, I remember very well when on a Wednesday morning the representative from the British publishers Methuen and Co came to see me in
Jon Miltimore fee.org Jonathan Miltimore is the Managing Editor of FEE.org. His writing/reporting has been the subject of articles in TIME magazine, The Wall Street Journal, CNN, Forbes, Fox News, and the Star Tribune. Bylines: Newsweek, The Washington Times, MSN.com, The Washington Examiner, The Daily Caller,
WWII hero, Field Marshal Bernard Montgomery, astutely observed that the worst calamities of the 20th century — Communism, Fascism and Nazism — were all made in Europe. And they were all defeated from outside Europe. But if he thought that Europe was done inflicting ideologically-driven calamity on the rest of the
Contrary to mythology, the quintessential Australian isn’t a rugged Outback type laconically shrugging off adversity with a “She’ll be right”. It’s an outraged suburbanite, shrieking that “The gummint should do somethin’!” Australia has long been one of the most urbanised countries in the world. Even by the
The Krazy Klimate Kult really are the most demented loons this side of Bedlam. From the nutters gluing themselves to everything in sight, to the deranged suits using institutional wealth – usually, working peoples’ compulsory superannuation money, the Keating gift that just keeps giving to the far left – to herd entire
In a memorable exchange with Bill Nye, Climate Depot’s Marc Morano challenged the Not-Science-Guy on his alarmist claims about hurricanes. Nye, who had been spluttering about increased hurricanes, suddenly changed tack. “Hurricanes, shmurricanes,” he spluttered. Why did he suddenly not want to talk about hurricanes? Probably because
Way back in 2015, Foreign Policy magazine dubbed the Obama administration’s foreign policy, “Operation Charlie Foxtrot”. By which it meant that Barack Obama’s “strategic incoherence” was a “cluster-fuck” of “bad choices, mismanagement, and faulty diplomacy”. G. W. Bush was bad enough, the august publication wrote, but Obama
Has Vladimir Putin killed “Net Zero”? European nations were warned years ago by Donald Trump that they had set themselves on a course for disaster with their energy policies. Germany was easily the worst offender: its foolishly virtue-signalling “Energiewende”, coupled with Angela Merkel’s knee-jerk decision to close
Here in Tasmania, we’re used to being the whipping boys for the green follies of Mainland activists. There’s a steady stream of FIFO activists in and out of the state, ever-ready to chain themselves to anything that threatens to make a profit. Mainlanders love to keep Tasmania
Ronald Stein cfact.org Ron Stein is an engineer who, drawing upon 25 years of project management and business development experience, launched PTS Advance in 1995. He is an author, engineer and energy expert who writes frequently on issues of energy and economics. With worldwide refinery closures outpacing new construction,
