Written By: - Date published: 1:47 pm, July 22nd, 2026 - 3 comments
The Green Party’s Kiwipower policy has a lot of similarities to the policy that the Greens and Labour jointly launched in the 2014 election. It will again be major issue in this election.
Written By: - Date published: 10:31 am, July 21st, 2026 - 8 comments
Our reliance on fossil fuels is a ticking timebomb, There Are Real Alternatives, and the Green Party have a plan
Written By: - Date published: 3:34 pm, July 20th, 2026 - 16 comments
The Greens’ energy policy is about reducing costs to citizens, and making our generation system more resilient
Written By: - Date published: 10:38 am, July 9th, 2026 - 25 comments
This is a very impressive policy from Labour
Written By: - Date published: 1:36 pm, May 22nd, 2026 - 6 comments
The coming oil shock is not just about oil. The future is baked in, and its not good. National’s backward-looking budget will make it much worse.
Written By: - Date published: 4:23 pm, May 7th, 2026 - 11 comments
That RNZ tricolon has always been infuriating fluff. In the real world, analysts warn we are heading for a cliff.
Written By: - Date published: 6:10 am, April 21st, 2026 - 28 comments
“The plan would electrify homes, transport and industry, ending New Zealand’s dependence on unpredictable global fossil fuel markets, cutting household power bills, and building real energy security at home.”
Written By: - Date published: 10:15 am, April 6th, 2026 - 48 comments
As this Government’s inaction over the oil crisis becomes more pronounced more and more people are noticing that Christopher Luxon is missing in action.
Written By: - Date published: 12:13 pm, April 2nd, 2026 - 31 comments
The Government’s complete reluctance to do anything about the approaching oil crisis is in stark contrast to the approach adopted by more progressive administrative governments overseas.
Written By: - Date published: 9:06 am, April 2nd, 2026 - 59 comments
reasons to feel hopeful but not complacent.
Written By: - Date published: 8:51 am, March 31st, 2026 - 27 comments
This is the kind of Just Transition story that turns us in the right direction.
Written By: - Date published: 10:48 am, March 30th, 2026 - 24 comments
Responses to the government’s National Fuel Plan.
Written By: - Date published: 12:41 am, March 29th, 2026 - 13 comments
In the tradition of Community Mutual Aid, Wise Response have published When the Trucks Stop: Mutual Aid Arrangements for a Fuel-Constrained New Zealand
Written By: - Date published: 12:36 pm, March 27th, 2026 - 23 comments
Nicola Willis and Shane Jones present the details in the current plan for the Hormz oill crisis.
Written By: - Date published: 12:35 pm, March 26th, 2026 - 20 comments
Officials have been doing private, media excluded, webinars with selected businesses. That seems pretty dodgy while our diesel stocks look like they will run out in a few weeks. Rather than (maybe) tomorrow, the government should have been rationing the unproductive Remuera tractors weeks ago.
Written By: - Date published: 6:50 pm, March 20th, 2026 - 30 comments
In absence of a concrete leadership plan from this government to address the impending oil supply crisis, this post is for us to simply note down what actions we are taking ourselves.
Written By: - Date published: 4:33 pm, March 19th, 2026 - 46 comments
The government has shifted position and is now directly talking about the need to plan and prepare for a potential crisis and doing so for the worst case scenario.
Written By: - Date published: 1:38 pm, March 17th, 2026 - 10 comments
Driven by ideology, this Government has worsened the country’s prospects to reduce oil dependance by axing policies that would have cut greenhouse-gas emissions.
Written By: - Date published: 11:52 am, March 14th, 2026 - 43 comments
Jacinda Ardern led the country through some of the most taxing international crises imaginable. How would she deal with the potential oil shock caused by the Iranian war and how does this compare to Christopher Luxon’s response?
Written By: - Date published: 2:59 pm, March 13th, 2026 - 14 comments
We are now in the opening days of what may be the decisive war to determine either the survival of the Iranian state or the expulsion of the US from the Arab lands.
Written By: - Date published: 1:05 am, March 13th, 2026 - 47 comments
“Every emergency plan principle that I’m aware of says you communicate early, honestly and with a plan.” – Nathan Surendran
Written By: - Date published: 11:31 am, March 11th, 2026 - 90 comments
In the short and medium term, what should this government do as a plan?
Written By: - Date published: 2:02 pm, February 12th, 2026 - 34 comments
The Government has responded to a perceived urgency caused by dry years to the country’s power supply by proposing something that is counter intuitive. Instead of rolling out solar it wants to burn imported Liquified Natural Gas. And use enabling legislation to avoid any overview of the proposal.
Written By: - Date published: 11:25 am, January 9th, 2026 - 10 comments
The real affordability crisis lies in the systematic extraction of income from households.
Written By: - Date published: 12:03 pm, December 23rd, 2025 - 11 comments
Advantage gets out the crystal ball and postilated what may happen next year.
Written By: - Date published: 8:56 am, October 1st, 2025 - 29 comments
Christopher Luxon recently wrote to Chris Hipkins seeking a bipartisan approach to gas drilling but then immediately turned this into a farce by leaking the letter to the Herald.
Written By: - Date published: 7:51 pm, August 31st, 2025 - 43 comments
Shane Jones has publicly attacked Prime Minister Christopher Luxon by accusing him of hiding. The chances of a snap election have just shot up.
Written By: - Date published: 8:43 am, August 11th, 2025 - 16 comments
How to make fundamental changes to the country’s energy systems to ensure that future supply is sustainable and democratically controlled/
Written By: - Date published: 8:33 am, August 6th, 2025 - 20 comments
The country’s four main power companies have signed an agreement to stockpile coal and to extend the life of the coal-fired Huntly power station.
Written By: - Date published: 10:12 am, July 31st, 2025 - 31 comments
Using a really shoddy parliamentary procedure Shane Jones has introduced an amendment to a bill that will potentially reduce oil industry liability for clean up costs.
Written By: - Date published: 3:44 pm, January 30th, 2025 - 30 comments
The latest outbursts and brain farts from the great Kumara of the North…
Open to all today in Nick’s Kōrero – Shane Jones calls climate change ‘woke’ and says, ‘Send the Mexicans home’.
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