New Zealand government votes to bring back fossil fuel exploration in major reversal |Ruling right-wing coalition votes to reverse ban, a move it believes will alleviate energy shortages and high pric
https://www.theguardian.com/world/2025/jul/31/new-zealand-government-votes-to-bring-back-fossil-fuel-exploration-in-major-reversal
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Bort@sh.itjust.works · 16 pts · 1y
This fucking govt has got to go.
Dave@lemmy.nz · 3 pts · 1y
Didn't they campaign on this? I thought they had said a long time ago they would do this.
People voted for it.
Bort@sh.itjust.works · 2 pts · 1y
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Antigrav@mastodon.nz · 3 pts · 1y
@Bort @hanrahan , it's like a never ending horror story atm getting worse by the day.
And the public is on a forced subscription.
Bort@sh.itjust.works · 5 pts · 1y
They seem to be intent on making everything worse for everybody except their cronies.
SpicyLizards@reddthat.com · 8 pts · 1y
We all know they only believe it will alleviate their personal short term cash flow.
BalpeenHammer@lemmy.nz · 7 pts · 1y
See how butter and lamb are so cheap because we make so much here? It will be just like that.
AlexLost@lemmy.world · 7 pts · 1y
Lies, they are telling lies so their rich friends can continue to get even filthier rich and not ha e to bear any of the costs of the damage they are doing to the world at large. Prices will not go down.
RecallMadness@lemmy.nz · 3 pts · 1y
I think the bit that annoys me the most is the flip-flop politics.
Why bother with any long term policies or projects if in 2 election terms it’s going to be attacked by ideology, called a failure and reversed at considerable expense.
absGeekNZ@lemmy.nz · 3 pts · 1y
Welcome back to the 1950's; smoking and oil! That is where we want to be.
TagMeInSkipIGotThis@lemmy.nz · 1 pts · 1y
Going all in on solar & battery discounts would be so much better than this stupid gas/oil thing, with the added benefit of disaster resiliency.