Greenpeace New Zealand Weblog

The party that would govern New Zealand after the next election released its energy policy today. Crude curses and furrowed brows abound at Greenpeace HQ. It’s like National is living in an alternate reality where climate change doesn’t exist.

The new policy reads like something from the 70s, and utterly fails to acknowledge the biggest collective crisis we’re ever faced. It’s heavily reliant on gas, does not support renewables to any significant degree and places little emphasis on energy efficiency and conservation. Also, extraordinarily, it sanctions coal for power generation. Yes, coal - that old dinosaur of fossil fuels, that blatant climate killer. Now, we know from Energy Spokesman Gerry Brownlee’s video newsletter of last year - one chapter of which is entitled “sexy coal” - that this is a man who finds strange things attractive.
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Framing goes in at Akiraho Street (C) GREENPEACE / TAYLOR

It’s been a fairly intense last three weeks on the job at Akiraho St, the new Greenpeace head office refit is ploughing ahead. The acceleration in the work programme has continued and there are days now where we see up to 20 contractors on site. It has to be this way now as Greenpeace has decided on a move in date and this is now only one month away!
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