Pundit on lignite

" I don’t want to close the door on the possibility of coal reinventing itself. But we should also be alive to the risk of coal getting in first, and shutting and bolting the thing behind them, against other better options."

So says Claire Browning @ Pundit

Claire's comment is a well researched one and presents a balanced view of the activities around lignite in New Zealand and in particular, Southland.

Just as extracting oil from off-shore wells around New Zealand might prolong the comfortable lifestyles we now enjoy, they'll hamper the development of new technologies that bring greater independence for us and would reduce our contribution to global warming.
Claire's assessment of the role lignite could play in delaying or extinguishing superior developments is a critical point, I believe.