Sunday, April 15, 2012
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Mining Minister Phil Heatley is spinning like a drill bit, explaining away his Government's rapacious plans to drill, mine and frack. His apparent faith in the Parliamentary Commissioner's findings, to come, on fracking, made me laugh and laugh. Jan Wright has told the Government, in no uncertain terms and following her research into the subject, that the lignite in Southland SHOULD NOT BE MINED, yet National have rejected her findings and swept it deep under their carpet. Heatley's pretending that the Government will listen and adjust their behaviour in response to what she says about fracking. Clearly, that's bullshit.
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Science writer Matt Ridley's book "The Rational Optimist" is a great book to read. Well worth while to take the time to see how healthy it is to be an optimist, not the dooms-dayer you continually come across as.
Could help to open your closed mind RG!
Thank you, Sally, though I expect Matt's book will only confirm my belief that we are all doomed, doomed I say. Even now, Southland is suffering a plague, of clusterflies, clustering, probably multiplying and doubtless heading to my place to make my life even more of a misery than it already is.
Woe, as you know, is me!
Good point about whether National will pay any attention to the PCE's report on fracking- I wish the reporter had asked Mr Heatley that question. And why does everyone seem to have forgotten climate change in media discussions on oil drilling or fracking?
Viv - I was champing at the bit to ask that question through the TV screen and still can't fathom why no one did - even Sue Kedgley missed it.
I've sent the following letter into the editor of the Southland Times:
Christchurch City Council has banned fracking. They say they don't want their water supply polluted, nor do they want to invite earthquakes, no matter how small, into their city.
In response to questions about the Council's decision, National's Minister of Energy and Resources, Phil Heatley said at the weekend, that he welcomes an investigation into fracking by the Parliamentary Commissioner for the Environment. He implies that he'd accept her findings, even if they went against his plans to frack. You'd think then that Mr Heatley would take notice of what the Commissioner recommended about lignite mining in Southland; that is should not be done, that the lignite coal should be left in the ground. But he didn't. He ignored her professional advice and he and his National Party are right behind the open cast mining plans for Mataura.
Seems ignoring expert advice is okay, if you don't like what it says.
Good letter.
I was trying the telepathy to TV thingee too, mine was doomed from the start tho, cos I was watching the replay on TVNZ7 @ night.
Phil Heatley kept saying that there were no plans to do any fracking anywhere near Chch, but I'm sure I read last week online somewhere (?) that there had been plans to do so.
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