The goverment declared a climate emergency last year and this year have moved to tax the bejesus out of ute owners to pay rich people a subsidy for their new, gay EV. What is becoming increasingly obvious is that all those gay EV drivers are driving around in cars powered by coal.
In the same year the government declared a climate emergency, imports of an especially dirty type of coal from Indonesia topped a million tonnes for the first time since 2006.
Last year, 235 kilograms of overseas coal was imported for every New Zealander in order to power homes and businesses. This is also only imported coal; the country also produces coal domestically.
Ninety-two per cent of the imported coal was from Indonesia, and the vast majority of that was a low-grade, high-emissions type: sub-bituminous coal
“Not only are we burning more coal, [but] it’s the dirtiest coal. And it comes from Indonesia where the conditions and the mining is appalling,” Cindy Baxter, an environmental campaigner, said.
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If your Tesla had a tail pipe we could stick that in it.
Jacinda Ardern declared that climate change was her generation’s nuclear free moment. If only she’d endorse nuclear power then we wouldn’t have to import millions of tonnes of Indonesian coal.
Importing coal when we have plenty of our own seems like economic vandalism.
When Jacinda Ardern talks about her climate change initiatives, just remember that she has presided over the largest imports of coal this country has ever seen.
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