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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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Face of the Day

Face of the Day

Today’s face of the day is National MP Matt King who caused Green party and MSM heads to explode when he posted the following on his Facebook page: Some words ( not all ) of wisdom taken from NZCPR website. If I wanted New Zealand to fail … To suffer, not prosper;

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The Greens Care More For the Environment than For Us

The Greens Care More For the Environment than For Us

In 2016 naive millennials lapped up the Greens’ environmental policy, and they continue to congratulate themselves for saving the environment. “We love Aotearoa and we want to protect it. Our kids have a birth right to swim in clean rivers, fish in the sea, and walk in pristine forests. “Our

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Things That Make Me Go Hmm

Sources: Climate depot: Boat materials; Crew flying; https://notalotofpeopleknowthat.wordpress.com Trip facts: https://phys.org/news/2019-08-greta-thunberg-world-youthful-climate.html

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The ‘Architecture Critic’ Who Hugged a Tree

The ‘Architecture Critic’ Who Hugged a Tree

BFD readers no doubt belong to that vast majority of happy folk, greatly to be envied, who neither know nor care who Elizabeth Farrelly is. So I must apologise for bursting your bubbles of blissful ignorance. If there was a pictorial calendar of watermelons, Farrelly would be its cover girl.

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Forest & Bird are Gunning for the Proposed Coromandel Marina

Forest & Bird are Gunning for the Proposed Coromandel Marina

It was most disconcerting to see grown men on the west coast crying because Eugenie Sage and her minions have threatened to shut down recreational white baiting – a family tradition. With support of the Greens, Forest & Bird (F&B) are throwing their weight around far more than they

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Face of the Day

Face of the Day

Today’s face of the day is upset by proposals to change the management of whitebait. The Indigenous Freshwater Fish Amendment Bill is currently going through Parliament, which some worry could eventually spell the end of whitebaiting in New Zealand. The bill aims to give better protection to native species,

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