Glad you called out the 'red herring' re: oil and gas exploration decisions - both the Labour and National-led governments have been deliberately misleading about this, which has then been picked up and promulgated by others. Let's be clear - there was never a 'ban' on this exploration, so there was actually nothing to be reversed. The '…
Glad you called out the 'red herring' re: oil and gas exploration decisions - both the Labour and National-led governments have been deliberately misleading about this, which has then been picked up and promulgated by others. Let's be clear - there was never a 'ban' on this exploration, so there was actually nothing to be reversed. The 'ban' applied to the seeking of new permits only - there were/are plenty of existing permits - as you noted, the issue is that these existing permits have not found (at least not as much) as was expected. Further, if seeking new permits hadn't been banned, these permits would have been in areas that had largely already been declared as uneconomic to explore (by the oil & gas exploring companies themselves). It's been a classic case of deflective politics from both major parties with most of the unaware victims being their own voters.
Glad you called out the 'red herring' re: oil and gas exploration decisions - both the Labour and National-led governments have been deliberately misleading about this, which has then been picked up and promulgated by others. Let's be clear - there was never a 'ban' on this exploration, so there was actually nothing to be reversed. The 'ban' applied to the seeking of new permits only - there were/are plenty of existing permits - as you noted, the issue is that these existing permits have not found (at least not as much) as was expected. Further, if seeking new permits hadn't been banned, these permits would have been in areas that had largely already been declared as uneconomic to explore (by the oil & gas exploring companies themselves). It's been a classic case of deflective politics from both major parties with most of the unaware victims being their own voters.
This is the comment of the day !