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Farmers Thrown Under the Tractor

Farmers Thrown Under the Tractor

I want to make it clear that I do not disagree with making our waterways cleaner and safer. Yes, once there was a time when we could swim in all the rivers here, but I have also swum at beaches in Hong Kong in the 1980s where faeces were floating

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The Real Amazon Threat is Green Lies

The Real Amazon Threat is Green Lies

By now, everyone who isn’t a complete idiot or a blind eco-fanatic (is there a difference?) knows that the “Amazon is burning!” panic is a thoroughgoing lie. Not that you can rely on the so-called “fact-checkers” of the left-wing media to come clean about that. But the truth really

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Aussie Council Kills Wildlife to Please Cyclists

Aussie Council Kills Wildlife to Please Cyclists

Is there some sort of instruction manual given away with new bicycles, titled “How to be an utter twat”? Whether it’s their entitled flouting of even the most elementary road laws, or the visual horror of dozens of flaccid, middle-aged arses wobbling like lycra-encased blancmange, these ‘road-maggots’ seem to

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Bottles to Fiber: The Magic of Repreve

Bottles to Fiber: The Magic of Repreve

From recycled plastic botTles to high-performance fiber for yoga gear and car interiors- This is how the magic happens. If you have a great Youtube or Vimeo video to share send it to videos@thebfd.co.nz

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The Crippling Legacy of Green Activists Running the Country

The Crippling Legacy of Green Activists Running the Country

Why did Energy and Resources Minister Megan Woods even bother announcing her 10-year plan for minerals and petroleum when its future is bleak? Why give the industry the idealistic goals of “affordable, sustainable energy” when the government is crippling it with legislation devoid of common sense? “Aotearoa New Zealand’s

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A Leftie Gets a ‘Wake up Call’ on Climate Change

A Leftie Gets a ‘Wake up Call’ on Climate Change

A Michael Moore-backed documentary Planet of the Humans that investigates Alternative Energy makes the startling point that the green energy movement has proven to be counter-productive. Director Jeff Gibbs explains that the green energy movement is “a giant profit center” for environmental groups and for corporations, including those that are

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West Coast Hydro Dam Axed by David Parker

West Coast Hydro Dam Axed by David Parker

You really do have to wonder with this government if the left hand knows what the right hand is doing. They axed our lucrative oil and gas industries, citing the fact that they want to concentrate entirely on renewable energy sources. New Zealand is already a great place for this,

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18  Breathtakingly Wrong Environmental Predictions

18 Breathtakingly Wrong Environmental Predictions

The first Earth Day was in 1970, and back then, many ‘apocalyptic’ predictions were made about the environment. Mark Perry at Carpe Diem AEIdeas blog has gone back and looked at them in order to present us with all the predictions that they got so spectacularly wrong 49 years ago.

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Wednesday Nightcap

Wednesday Nightcap

Copenhagen Consensus Centre Director Bjorn Lomborg says the world is getting “virtually nil” impact from the $240 billion spent subsidising green energy every year.

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In 2019 It Feels Like Agriculture Is Under Attack.

In 2019 It Feels Like Agriculture Is Under Attack.

On an NZ Facebook page about farming this week I came across an interesting post written by a Veterinarian from the Wairarapa. […] Fast forward to 2019 and it feels like agriculture is under attack. It feels like a small number of anti-farming activists have dominated the media in such a

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