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New Zealand bans all new offshore oil exploration as part of 'carbon-neutral future'
The Guardian ^ | Thu 12 Apr 2018 02.17 BST | Eleanor Ainge Roy

Posted on 04/18/2018 9:30:07 AM PDT by SmarterJr

The New Zealand government will grant no new offshore oil exploration permits in a move that is being hailed by conservation and environmental groups as a historic victory in the battle against climate change.

(Excerpt) Read more at theguardian.com ...


TOPICS: Business/Economy
KEYWORDS: oil; refinery

1 posted on 04/18/2018 9:30:07 AM PDT by SmarterJr
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Man up New Zelanders. Prohibit any and all carbon based products starting now. EVERYTHING! Come on, we know you can do it. No more “fossil” fueled deliveries, no aeroplanes. Do it. We dare you.


2 posted on 04/18/2018 9:37:19 AM PDT by rktman (Enlisted in the Navy in '67 to protect folks rights to strip my rights. WTH?)
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Based on one of their primary businesses, raising sheep for market, I’d think they’d be working on sheep fart sequestration first.


3 posted on 04/18/2018 9:41:58 AM PDT by vette6387
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Maybe all petroleum exporting countries should help NZ’s ‘crusade’ by refusing sell them any of those evil hydrocarbon derivatives.
Would be funny to click a stopwatch on how many seconds it’d take for them to start screaming.

Fools


4 posted on 04/18/2018 9:51:40 AM PDT by tomkat
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New Zealand.....

Full of cannibals and crotchety old people.


5 posted on 04/18/2018 10:00:22 AM PDT by blueunicorn6 ("A crack shot and a good dancer")
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And all LEFTY countries should join them.

Come on LEFTIES, don’t be hypocrites.


6 posted on 04/18/2018 10:02:55 AM PDT by joshua c (To disrupt the system, we must disrupt our lives)
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China will have no problem drilling off NZ’s coast. At least the Kiwis will feel good about themselves.


7 posted on 04/18/2018 11:06:58 AM PDT by 10mm
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No more plastic in their hospitals either.


8 posted on 04/18/2018 12:46:14 PM PDT by Amberdawn (If Leftists Didn't Live By Double Standards, They'd Have No Standards At All.)
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Just today I read about the latest study that showed that computer models exaggerated by as much as 45% the impact of CO2 on global atmospheric temperatures.

Money quote: "The resulting warming [under the status quo] would be below the target set at the Paris agreement."

Oh really? This whole multi-billion-dollar scam, even if cranked up to the max, would deliver "results" not effectively different than what's trending now?

Oh, good.

Now we can breathe again.

Folks, CO2 is not a pollutant. It's an atmospheric fertilizer. If it increased threefold it would bring us up much closer to the optimal levels they aim for in greenhouses. You know: to produce lush plant growth.

The ordinary, lifegiving process of organic decompositon produces robust amounts of the choicest of greenhouse gases: methane, water vapor, and CO2. I'm gonna take my life in my hands and triple my compost pile.

Greenhouse optimization, here we come!

9 posted on 04/26/2018 7:15:51 AM PDT by Mrs. Don-o ("Just the facts, ma'am, just the facts." - Sgt. Joe Friday)
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.. and triple my compost pile

Yep, pile it on & pile it high .. the Erf and all us creatures thank you in advance !

10 posted on 04/26/2018 7:29:33 AM PDT by tomkat
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I always love to find another connoisseur of tasteful compost.


11 posted on 04/26/2018 7:37:06 AM PDT by Mrs. Don-o ("Just the facts, ma'am, just the facts." - Sgt. Joe Friday)
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