by frog
Today’s Green question in Parliament – Metiria Turei to the Minister of Conservation:
Does the Department of Conservation plan to submit on the resource consent applications for Meridian Energy Limited’s Mokihinui Hydro Proposal; if so, will the Department be advocating for the protection of the river?
You can watch parliament questions and answers at 2pm on streaming video or listen on Radio NZ’s streaming audio.
I’m told that Metiria is one of the people in that pictured raft below.
Published in Environment & Resource Management | Parliament by frog on Tue, April 15th, 2008
Tags: Department of Conservation, Meridian Energy, Metiria Turei, Mokihinui, Parliament
on the trolls and those who are unable to keep on topic
yeah..every questiontime is also live-commented over at whoar..
cheers frog..
phil(whoar.co.nz)
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I thought the Greens supported renewable energy. Apparently not even hydro. How would you power NZ?
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Perhaps by reducing demand and then using a diverse combination of hydro wind and solar in low impact distributed maner.
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Last time we tried to reduce demand through the EECA strategy demand actually increased. So that doesn’t work.
What is a “low impact distibuted maner” (sic)?
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Best not run out of power…
Electorate will get really mad, and eels won’t mean squat….
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It’s easy to be against climate change pro renewable energy etc but at some stage there are hard choices to be made.
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Polaris- The Greens want to avoid damaging our native ecology on ALL resource consent processes, not just the nonrenewable ones. I agree with them that this is a good idea, and I’m sure there are better sites. I just wonder whether the threat of climate change isn’t even more urgent.
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Ari
You’re going to affect the environment what ever you do. People are not going to tolerate a lack of power, and esoteric arguments about the stratosphere will die if the juice isn’t flowing.
Not unlike the “society is only three meals away from revolution” position. If the power blacks out for three days, people will be demanding coal burning…..
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This is the Green dilemma, and the way I see it they consistently back the wrong horse. They see the little picture, but fail to see the impact on the big picture.
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it’s true that when I get cold in Chch I feel as though life (like that) isn’t worth living and I light up the log fire.
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BP- well, sure, if you want to define “damaging the environment” very liberally, yes you are. But we’re talking about slightly more serious damage than usual here.
I think it’s possible to meet both concerns (development and environment) if we concentrate on doing it, but it’ll be hard and isn’t helped by people who want to introduce false dichotomies all the time.
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>>it’s possible to meet both concerns
When the debate starts on the level of some eel having issues with it, I really wonder.
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Of course if a dam is built it will facilitate economic growth; we’ll need more skills (immigration) etc and then we’ll need 5 more (not including other infrastructure.
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