gerry brownlee Archive

  • frog

    Nats undermining open government



    The National-led Government is attempting to avoid public scrutiny of Bills by making Regulatory Impact Statements almost as hard to find as Phil Heatley’s and Gerry Brownlee’s Ministerial credit card receipts. A very poor look as far as open government is concerned. read more
    February 26, 2010 6:49 pm - 12 Comments
  • frog

    Sexy coal on sexy oil



    Isn’t Gerry Brownlee such a wonderfully clever Minister of Energy and Resources to be able to increase our oil production a thousandfold? read more
    February 12, 2010 2:40 pm - 24 Comments
  • frog

    Mokihinui – Brownlee’s burp



    So this week our Minister of Mining and Damming (aka Energy and Resources) let slip that the Mokihinui hydro-dam “would not go ahead”. Does he know something or was it just his ‘opinion’? Whatever the brain-burp was, he was ill-advised to say it but it’d be nice to think that there may be Moki fans in Government – perhaps they are closet readers of the 1400-fan facebook page! read more
    November 5, 2009 10:16 pm - 28 Comments
  • frog

    Mining Milford Sound?



    “Will he rule out of the review of Schedule 4 of the Crown Minerals Act any consideration of mining potential in Milford Sound; if not, why not?” National Parks, openness, ‘hysteria’ and cartoons. read more
    October 8, 2009 10:36 am - 12 Comments
  • frog

    Undermining our most generous gifts



    On 23 September 1887 – 122 years ago yesterday – Te Heuheu Tukino of Tuwharetoa gifted the mountains of Tongariro, Ngaruhoe and Ruapehu to the people of Aotearoa…. This anniversary was sullied by the fact that the Crown is now considering the Park’s mining potential. read more
    September 24, 2009 2:30 pm - 12 Comments
  • Catherine Delahunty

    Gerry The Dinosaur



    Once upon a time there was a large hungry dinosaur called Gerry who loved eating rocks more than anything else.   He lived near a beautiful forest but he had never been allowed to enter and eat the rocks and pull out the trees. He had been told he couldn’t tramp through the clear shining rivers [...] read more
    September 2, 2009 10:44 am - 91 Comments
  • Jeanette Fitzsimons

    Fiddling the electricity market, while consumers burn



    Once again the government is fiddling with the electricity market to try to make it do two contradictory things. Once again it will fail. The Minister of Energy is gradually drip feeding results of the Electricity Market Review,  which is to be considered by Cabinet this morning. It seems it will abolish the Electricity Commission, set [...] read more
    August 10, 2009 11:49 am - 9 Comments
  • frog

    Driving efficiency



    The NACT government has justified much of its agenda with the catch cry ’streamlining and efficiency.’ It’s the falsehood under cover of which they plan to gut environmental laws through changes to the RMA, for example.  And its part of the rationale they gave for bringing the ETS to a grinding halt. But in what universe does [...] read more
    May 19, 2009 5:05 pm - 11 Comments
  • frog

    Air Freshener: A dose of reality



    The This Is Reality campaign has published their latest “Clean Coal” advertisement. It was directed by Academy-award winners Joel and Ethan Coen and it’s pretty funny. There is no such thing as clean coal, Gerry. read more
    February 27, 2009 9:13 am - 9 Comments
  • frog

    Energy Minister’s recipe for economic disaster



    The government’s call to scrap the New Zealand Energy Strategy is yet another instance of the environment being sacrificed on the altar of exponential growth, and is a recipe for economic disaster. However, there may be a tiny silver lining. At least this time the Energy Minister has not hidden behind the farce of “balance” and [...] read more
    February 26, 2009 4:14 pm - 16 Comments
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