Just when you thought it could not get any sillier, Phil Goff who needs to spend money on stopping the sewage polluting Auckland beaches, proudly announces that they will spend $18 million on a battery-powered tug boat for Ports of Auckland. Watch the video here. Auckland ratepayers must be
It behoves me to confirm what many suspected already: Wellington’s ‘leadership’ gaggle of Trotskyites, Bolsheviks, and silly children are all officially brain-dead. This confirmation came in today’s news when announcing that previous, and suitably ridiculous, ‘optimistic’ estimates of probable sea-level rise of 60cm per century (triple
I thought Julie-Anne Genter was Associate Transport Minister, but it seems she is Associate Health Minister as well. When you think about the Department of Health, you tend to think about overworked doctors, overworked nurses, waiting lists, sewage in the walls (that turned out to be non-existent), cancer
Sounds like patient abuse to me. Denying sick people a healthy balanced diet for environmental reasons is wrong on so many levels.
A proposed plan to save the planet, an opinion piece on Stuff, is completely backwards facing. Apparently, the only way to save the planet (or at least just Wellington) is to regress our modern-day society into a world from the past and to “behave better” – whatever that means. Now
Journalist Simon Wilson has finally found out who is responsible for New Zealand’s Climate Change Emergency. * No, it is not India or China * No, it is not fossil fuel * No, it is not oil or gas * No, it is not cars and cows * No, it is not plastic and
Remember the survey Stuff ran about Climate Change? The results are out. Nothing to write home about but this is what the Editor has said about providing balanced reporting.
According to both the general public and to our readers the government should NOT declare a Climate Emergency. The MSM poll when we last checked had a 77% majority against declaring an emergency. Our blog poll had an even stronger no vote with 98% against an emergency declaration. Our Blog
By John What is it with governments and local councils these days? Many seem to have a penchant for either coming up with wacky ideas or involving themselves in areas that they think are fashionable, but in truth are no more than virtue signalling. Take the latest from Auckland council
Louis Houlbrooke New Zealand Taxpayers’ Union ‘Climate emergency’ trend sweeping the nation Are you feeling alarmed? According to virtue-signalling local politicians, you should be, because councils across the country are rushing to declare ‘climate emergencies’. Following intense media attention on last week’s ‘climate change strike’, nearly every council
The above photo was taken at 5.16 pm on Friday 24 May 2019 from the western hills of Lower Hutt, looking towards Wellington Harbour. It was a calm late autumn evening and you will notice that the trees and fronds are surprisingly upright for a Wellington day. It has
As a precursor to the up coming Zero Carbon Act championed by the co-leader of the Green Party, The Hon James Shaw has announced a new policy initiative as his Captain’s Call. All indications are that he has made this decision on his own initiative as there was
