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  1. Comment on Government is pathetic on gassing

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    Puzzled. Grid scale solar is going in already. With more on the way. Like wind installations, the main fundamental constraint now appears to be get the grid connections. Typically scale operations take 3 or more years to get a connection if they don’t have …

  2. Comment on Government is pathetic on gassing

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    It was real. The geology favours a similar kind of geological formation as Taranaki, deep basin that slowly filled with sediment including vegetation, suitable geological heating and impermeable overlay. The Penrod 74 drilled about 8 holes with 3 showing …

  3. Comment on Open Mike 25/09/2026

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    Note, I thought AI would be interesting to ask because it is about as neutral observer on these matters as one can get. Actually they aren’t. AI’s are trained to please the questioner if at all possible. There is a lot of work about the algorithmic …

  4. Comment on Open Mike 25/09/2026

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    If Hager wanted to get the book out before the election, he could have had it ready six months earlier to allow for injunctions to be dealt with. You’re presupposing that there is a requirement or even a moral duty to pass it by who you’re writing about. …

  5. Comment on Government is pathetic on gassing

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    Yeah, that was what I understand as well. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Great_South_Basin Also the strike was away from the coast. I think that they did 3 holes, found condensates and a actual hydrocarbon strike. Then the Penrod went to Singapore ?? for …

  6. Comment on Open Mike 25/09/2026

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    That is why I think it is important to put the information to the targets of the writing so they have the opportunity to provide the wider context on the information. Complete bullshit. I don’t. There is always the public forum of the court system. …

  7. Comment on Open Mike 25/09/2026

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    He is right about that. However I suspect that is largely due to a backbone issue

  8. Comment on Open Mike 25/09/2026

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    Following our discussion from a few days ago (I still haven’t had time to read the book) so I have been catching up on specific issues via other writers. I commented (to you I think) that HR departments were notorious for hiding dirty laundry with …

  9. Comment on Open Mike 25/09/2026

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    Your assuming penks trustworthy, ? I wonder what Luxon thought?

  10. Comment on Government is pathetic on gassing

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    I did have several different titles for this post. That was the most seemly, prim, and proper. It didn’t mention bloat, wanking, prolific waster, and I dialed back my true feelings considerably. I was highly restrained… So should you be as well…. 🙂

  11. Government is pathetic on gassing

    Written By: lprent - Date published: - 23 comments
    Categories: economy, Shane Jones Tags: , , , ,

    Over the last three years, our current incompetent government has been running New Zealand into an artificial recession. But they keep blaming the previous government, especially on the oil and gas exploration ban. So over three years how have they done …

  12. Comment on Unmasking the TaxPayers Union as the Tobacco Protection Union

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    My issue with this book is that there doesn’t seem to have been any attempt to disprove the theory. I wouldn’t say that. He substantiates his theories with examples from evidence. I haven’t read it all yet. Work keeps interfering. But I keep opening it …

  13. Comment on Unmasking the TaxPayers Union as the Tobacco Protection Union

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    Ah. gsays said that. Consider my opinion about saying things like that above. ‘Truth’ is more of an dumbarse and weird abstraction that Bomber would wave around. I’m thinking about the Town hall debacle with DotCom more than a decade ago.

  14. Comment on National’s LNG terminal tax is on hold (for the moment).

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    I just find it irritating. I suspect that the whole thing has little to do with the electricity sector and more to do with industry and residential companies and individuals wanting to retain their gas equipment. It is like the idiots who keep saying that …

  15. Comment on Unmasking the TaxPayers Union as the Tobacco Protection Union

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    All his books have been ‘allegations’ based on some evidence or statements by people who were involved. ‘Truth’ is more of an dumbarse and weird abstraction that Bomber would wave around. I’m thinking about the Town hall debacle with DotCom more than a …

  16. Comment on Unmasking the TaxPayers Union as the Tobacco Protection Union

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    Ummm. Have you ever been on a jury or in court observing. Most legal cases in court are decided on the credibility of witnesses and their statements of what they thought that they are on documentation. My copy arrived in Invercargill this morning. Scanning …

  17. National’s LNG terminal tax is on hold (for the moment).

    Written By: lprent - Date published: - 8 comments
    Categories: act, Economy, election 2026, national, nz first Tags: , , ,

    National had proposed building a liquefied natural gas (LNG) terminal at Port Taranaki. Ostensibly this was to provide dry year support for the electricity generators to burn gas to run turbines whenever New Zealand had a dry year that caused hydro dams …

  18. Comment on Unmasking the TaxPayers Union as the Tobacco Protection Union

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    We’re in an Internet wild west, where bloggers are exempt from the same rules as journalists and I think that’s the place to start. More perception than reality. Having operated this site since 2007, there are considerable constraints on local bloggers, …

  19. Comment on Hager’s next book

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    Ah I see that you’re only interested in diverting away from the bulk of the book and have instead chosen to focus on a just few lines and the response to those. I guess you don’t want to confront the issue of who funds the TPU. Responding to allegations – …

  20. Comment on Hager’s next book

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    I don’t think any injunction attempt would stand for long. Been a while since you have been around courts I see. Even I know better. Temporary or interim injunctions can be obtained rapidly. To remove them will often take weeks or even months. Just getting …

  21. Comment on Hager’s next book

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    If that is true, then there should have been a settlement document and a money trail. And, an employment dispute would normally relate to an employee. Actually none of any of those are required in any legal sense. A lot of settlements wind up as just …

  22. Comment on Hager’s next book

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    The problem is, even if there is truth in the book, publishing stuff if there is clear contrary evidence tends to undermine the credibility of the book as a whole. It would be a lot more compelling if he was to actually include the responses by those he …

  23. Unmasking the TaxPayers Union as the Tobacco Protection Union

    Written By: lprent - Date published: - 50 comments
    Categories: act, casey costello, David Farrar, Dirty Politics, national, nz first, spin, taxpayers union, Tobacco Tags: , ,

    I haven’t read Nicky Hagers’ new book Dirty Work yet, mostly because it will take some time to drift towards this end of the earth. There wasn’t a e-pub option to purchase. Most of the book highlights in the release and the news media I read this morning …

  24. Comment on Hager’s next book

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    Are you instead thinking there should be a threshold above which donations should be public? For example, someone donating $50 a month to a group isn’t a public interest matter, but if someone hands that group $50,000 it is of public interest? More like $ …

  25. Comment on Daily review 18/09/2026

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    Opps, I knocked the power off the router when closing the curtains before heading off to the movies. Time to get a decent case for the comms.

  26. Comment on To frigate or not to frigate

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    The USV and OWA strikes on Russia’s Black Sea fleet have occurred in the context of a war being fought in a confined inland sea. One where the Russian Navy has had to pull their remaining still mobile ships and support systems back to the other side of …

  27. Comment on To frigate or not to frigate

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    I’d agree with all of that. I like the current mix because the nations are like-minded enough, and with teh exception of Aussie largely unentangled with Great Power hubris. I just don’t think that requires frigates. I think that frigates going forward just …

  28. Comment on To frigate or not to frigate

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    Yeah, the Budapest memo come to mind.

  29. Comment on To frigate or not to frigate

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    …what the US did and continues to do to Iran? It is a stupid conflict and has been since 1979 (and 1951) largely due to the US repeatably never learning the lesson about self-determination and wanting to interfere in the internal workings of sovereign …

  30. Comment on To frigate or not to frigate

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    I see the main roles for our Navy. Patrolling the EEZ, mostly that doesn’t require frigate sized, except maybe in the deep southern waters for seaworthiness. But our current frigates aren’t well suited to that. Patrolling the trade routes against piracy or …