Oil & gas multinationals have little interest in NZ. Exploration is costly and decades of industry testing & drilling have led to no significant discoveries. But Dopey First think they've found a way to change that.
Instead of leaving the risks of exploration to oil companies, NZ First will transfer the risk to the NZ taxpayer. Winston announced that they'll sink a billion dollars into a survey of offshore oil and gas reserves.
Waffling on as if the climate crisis doesn't exist, doddery grandad reckons it'll only take six years to identify those vast (but so far invisible) tracts of fossil fuels which have eluded everyone and go into production.
Six years sounds far too quick and donating a billion dollars to offshore entities chasing filthy fossil dreams doesn't feel like an election winner to me.
Oh, in today's speech Winston also described Labour as "far left", showing how far removed he has become from reality.
Lie with cookers... get fleas. Or something like that.
https://www.nzherald.co.nz/nz/politics/election-2026-nz-first-leader-winston-peters-to-unveil-new-policy-at-campaign-launch-to-conclude-convention/ZA3PMUUM7JDOTPOWJCM62BE7XU/
#NZPol #NZFirst #FossilFuels
Bob LeFridge :tinoflag:
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