This hasn’t aged well in the last 13 months.

I'd forgotten this piece by Fox Meyer. Shows the annual cost to the govt of treating acid mine leakage at a single coal mine is greater than the annual royalties paid by the entire coal industry. Coal is a climate disaster, it only survives on govt subsidy. newsroom.co.nz/2024/12/02/a...

Chris Bishop has made some of this offending legal by giving councils the ability to approve pollution causing “conspicuous change in the colour or visual clarity” of freshwater. The number of prosecutions will drop and he will claim that agribusiness is doing better. www.stuff.co.nz/nz-news/3607...

This list of prosecutions for dairy company pollution is the tip of the iceberg of pollution. Most dairy corporation pollution is legal, or if not legal it is not detected, or if it is detected it is not prosecuted. www.stuff.co.nz/nz-news/3607...

The Herald may have cut its science reporter, but thank god the speed bump beat is still fully staffed

20 September 1922 | Dutch Jew Benjamin de Brave was born in Amsterdam. In September 1942 he was deported to #Auschwitz. He did not survive.

The government has gutted pay equity claims. Over 180,000 workers, mainly women, impacted. Day of action for #payequity Stand up. Fight back!

Women's day of action in Ōtautahi. #payequity #nzpol

The Luxon Govt gave out $56m to irrigation schemes in Canterbury in July. These schemes drive intensive dairy which only makes the nitrate emergency worse. www.rnz.co.nz/news/nationa... www.beehive.govt.nz/release/wate...

The Right has become synonymous with the use of state power to suppress speech they don't like.

The decision as to whether an oil company is responsible for the costs of decommissioning an old field now rests entirely with Shane Jones. Taxpayers previously had to pay $300m to decommission the Tui oil field after the owners onsold it to a company that then went bankrupt.

Just your regular reminder that Chris Bishop is both chair of the National Party Campaign Committee, dependent on donations from businesses for a successful campaign, and the Infrastructure Minister, who decides if businesses get to access the RMA fast track process.

Todd McClay, NZ Minister Agriculture, legislated over court rulings as “The court decisions could result in more discharges needing consents, more consent applications being declined, and consent conditions becoming more restrictive, reducing the ability to improve freshwater quality over time."

The decision of the Luxon Govt to cancel the NZ Battery Project, which would have underpinned security of the nz electricity network, sure looks short sited as we watch the wave of industrial closures driven, in part, by security of supply and high prices of electricity.

As the Irish Minister for Agriculture vows to fight for the right to keep filling rivers with levels of agri-pollutants illegal in the rest of the EU, results show a massive leap of 16% in a single year. Whoever told them it was okay to turn OUR rivers into open sewers? share.google/k7hbDw2O4shX...

Coincidentally the OECD this week published its annual 'Tax Policy Reforms' which contained this chart. (Note also where Argentina, for whom Hooton has the hots, sits).

Todd McClay has made a series of decisions increasing nitrate contamination in Canterbury (and elsewhere). So when he criticises the council for declaring a nitrate emergency it is like an arsonist criticising people for calling 'fire' after he sets their house alight. www.rnz.co.nz/news/politic...

Todd should be happy they've only called the one environmental emergency... The state of the former breadbasket of NZ is a fucking disgrace. There's even E.coli in Te Manahuna Mackenzie Country FFS.

Silly Jimmy Kimmel. He should have just called for all homeless people to be killed and he’d still have a job.

Todd McClay has made a series of decisions increasing nitrate contamination in Canterbury (and elsewhere). So when he criticises the council for declaring a nitrate emergency it is like an arsonist criticising people for calling 'fire' after he sets their house alight. www.rnz.co.nz/news/politic...

Todd McClay is deliberately increasing nitrate contamination in Canterbury by removing rules to protect freshwater. eg after a 2025 court decision requiring consents for more pollution discharges, McClay pushed through a law change to overturn the decision. He said this was to improve freshwater!

It’s a nitrate emergency alright. Canterbury has landscape scale toxic water contamination from industrial dairy. And the current Govt is deliberately making it worse and this is the second emergency - our Govt is captured by agribusiness www.rnz.co.nz/news/nationa...

The Canterbury Regional Council has declared a Nitrate Emergency due to rapidly rising levels of dangerous nitrate in groundwater across the region. Driven by @fonterranz.bsky.social and other industrial dairy cos and accelerated by Luxon Govt. #TooManyCows www.rnz.co.nz/news/nationa...

"The minister has said donning an adult nappy and chaining yourself to a door was not the way to get an audience with her." So they should have done the usual thing of offering a big donation instead?

Are there adult nappies for the economically incontinent? Features I'm looking for: Can absorb $671m pissed away on zero ferries. Can contain a big jobs dump. Won't leak tens of thousands of Kiwis to Australia. #nzpol

In London, hate will never win.

Plug your bores Mainlanders. Luxon Seymour and Peters (who welched on cancer drugs) are spraying cancer around with their policies. #nzpol

Join me in calling on the government to stop the wild west corporate power grab by strengthening environmental law instead of weakening it: greenpeace.nz/54h2u6

The Canterbury Regional Council has declared a Nitrate Emergency due to rapidly rising levels of dangerous nitrate in groundwater across the region. Driven by @fonterranz.bsky.social and other industrial dairy cos and accelerated by Luxon Govt. #TooManyCows www.rnz.co.nz/news/nationa...

WorkSafe focus on Talley’s group of companies after a considerable number of incidents #nzpol 2/n www.worksafe.govt.nz/about-us/new....

AFFCO NZ Limited (Talley’s) has now been sentenced for its health and safety failures. Judge Warren Cathcart has described the death as “a wholly avoidable event”. 3/n #nzpol

Talley's fined more than $300,000 for worker safety breaches 4/n #nzpol www.stuff.co.nz/national/123...

Supreme Court rejects Talleys appeal over 2019 forklift accident #nzpol www.nbr.co.nz/law/supreme-...

Talleys has a terrible history of health and safety harm and environmental damage. www.1news.co.nz/2025/09/16/t...

Fonterra - It all starts here. www.rnz.co.nz/news/nationa...

Nitrate pollution across Canterbury - As @fonterranz.bsky.social ‘s little roadside signs say: ‘It all starts here’ www.rnz.co.nz/news/nationa...

Think of the GDP increase when every community in the South Island has to spend $100m+ on denitrification plants to remove @fonterranz.bsky.social nitrate out of their drinking water. Basically, clean drinking water is causing a recession - but not for much longer www.rnz.co.nz/news/nationa...

Maybe we’re looking at this backwards: it’s time for @fonterranz.bsky.social to declare a ‘Dairy National Park’ across Canterbury and move the people out as they are getting in the way of industrial dairying . www.rnz.co.nz/news/nationa...

It’s a nitrate emergency alright. Canterbury has landscape scale toxic water contamination from industrial dairy. And the current Govt is deliberately making it worse and this is the second emergency - our Govt is captured by agribusiness www.rnz.co.nz/news/nationa...

There is no nursing shortage in New Zealand There are no sheep on our farms ... Was the first thing that came to mind after reading hospitals have been short 587 nurses every shift over the last year. Despite what Ministers and Lester Levy have said all year. www.rnz.co.nz/news/nationa...

PRESS RELEASE: Greenpeace applauds ECan for declaring nitrate emergency, calls for candidates to pledge real action www.greenpeace.org/aotearoa/pre... #nzpol

In today’s NZ Herald #nzpol

But Fonterra is doing fine fine fine

The NZ Luxon Govt and the US Trump Govt have many similarities. One of them is opposition to cycleways. usa.streetsblog.org/2025/09/16/b... thekaka.substack.com/p/no-new-fun...

I am just going to keep posting that the TX governor recently pardoned a political murderer. The dude texted "I'm going to shoot protestors", then went and shot a Black Lives Matter protester. He was convicted in a jury trial. Hard to find a more blatant example of celebrating political violence.

Elon Musk openly called for violence on our streets yesterday. I hope politicians from all parties come together to condemn his deeply dangerous and irresponsible rhetoric. Britain must stand united against this clear attempt to undermine our democracy.

We don’t celebrate his death, but we won’t hide the truth about his life.

Breaking. "To count as genocide [under the 1948 UN genocide convention], at least one of five acts must have occurred. The UN commission found that Israel had committed four of them." www.theguardian.com/world/2025/s...

It is telling that the director of the Israel Institute of NZ, Ashley Church, like JD Vance, does not think Kirk's views were racist or sexist. Kirk: "Joy Reid, Michelle Obama, Ketanji Brown Jackson — you do not have the brain processing power to otherwise be taken seriously."

The far right Trump regime does not like to be criticised!