@marksterms.bsky.social

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National's LNG blunders are a warning ahead of election campaign Ministers seemed unprepared for criticism over LNG and then unable to salvage the narrative once the severity of the situation became apparent.

My comment: Ministers seemed unprepared for criticism over how to pay for liquid natural gas and then unable to salvage the narrative once the severity of the situation became apparent.
newsroom.co.nz/2026/02/11/n...

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5 months ago
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$26b in dirty money: Fonterra cashes in after contaminating drinking water - Greenpeace Aotearoa Dirty money: that’s what Greenpeace is calling the $26 billion in revenue brought in by dairy giant Fonterra over the last financial year.

PRESS RELEASE - $26b in dirty money: Fonterra cashes in after contaminating drinking water www.greenpeace.org/aotearoa/pre... #nzpol

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6 months ago
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PETITION: Choose a clean energy future Sign on now to call on the Luxon Govt to embrace a Clean Energy Future for NZ, invest in solar and wind, and reject new fossil fuel electricity generation and a new fossil gas import facility.

PETITION: Choose a Clean Energy Future petition.act.greenpeace.org.nz/clean-energy...

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7 months ago
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Government moves to strip protections for water quality  — Environmental Law Initiative The Environmental Law Initiative says last-minute Government amendments would gut core protections for New Zealand’s rivers, lakes, and streams.

Today, the Government quietly released an amendment to its amendment to the Resource Management Act that will strip protections for water quality.

It is a conspicuous example of how far vested interests are controlling this Government. #freshwater
Read our response:
www.eli.org.nz/updates/amen...

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7 months ago
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Green Party co-leader Chlöe Swarbrick 'named' for refusing to leave Parliament Debbie Ngarewa-Packer re-used the 'C-word' in Parliament in response, and Winston Peters spoke in Swarbrick's defence, despite voting to have her ejected.

Speaking to reporters afterwards, Swarbrick said Brownlee had "now been explicit about the fact that he was the member who took personal offence at the statements that I made.." #NzPol

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7 months ago
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We strangled our rivers; now they're fighting back Special report: We forced NZ's braided rivers into tiny channels so we could build our homes and farms in their riverbeds – now we're seeing the consequences. Marc Daalder investigates.

Paywall now lifted: My special report this morning is about how we spent generations strangling our rivers to make room for our homes and farms, only to find we've ended up supercharging their flows.

What do we do when we realise we've built a society in a riverbed?
newsroom.co.nz/2025/08/13/l...

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7 months ago
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We strangled our rivers; now they're fighting back Special report: We forced NZ's braided rivers into tiny channels so we could build our homes and farms in their riverbeds – now we're seeing the consequences. Marc Daalder investigates.

This is magnificent work @marcdaalder.bsky.social

newsroom.co.nz/2025/08/13/l...

The legal definition of the 'River Bed' under the RMA is a disaster waiting to happen (oh that's right it did, repeatedly).

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7 months ago
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Did you know methane emissions from Fonterra and the global livestock industry are 80 times more potent than CO2?

It's time to take action. Let's pressure world leaders to regulate these industries and stop their destructive practices and growth.

Take action NOW: greenpeace.nz/b95joo
#toomanycows

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7 months ago

Couldn’t have put it better myself

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7 months ago
The protest was to stop ANZ bank support Bathurst Resources, the company proposing a huge open cast coal mine on the Denniston Plateau near Westport which would destroy Denniston’s unique ecosystem. For more, go to the Forest and Bird website. P

At the Denniston Rally today in Whakatu Nelson. Protesting at ANZ’s support of Bathurst Resources who want to open a huge open cast coal mine on the Denniston Plateau which would erase for all time its unique environment. We cannot let that happen. Too precious to mine.

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8 months ago
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Today on the Rainbow Warrior III, we commemorated the 40th anniversary of the sinking of Rainbow Warrior I and the death of photographer Fernando Pereira. Together with Ngāti Whātua Ōrākei, we held a dawn ceremony to reflect on that day, and to acknowledge the importance of a nuclear-free Pacific.

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11 months ago
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Worst Day to Best Day on the Greenpeace Seamounts Expedition as the team find signs of life after witnessing coral destruction.

We can't wait to share more with you when it's all gone through the proper scientific process.

Follow along here: greenpeace.nz/seamount-exp...

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1 year ago
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Have you been following our Seamount Expedition?

The DropCam has been rolling, capturing deep sea images of seamounts, the life found there, and documenting any damage done by trawlers.

Greenpeace oceans campaigner Ellie Hooper is pretty excited.

Want to know more? greenpeace.nz/seamount-exp...

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1 year ago

Selective quotes create the false impression that debating treaty issues in a select committee will ever be balanced. And it presents a false binary. Interpreting Te Tiriti in a modern context is needed but not in this polarised manner.
Please do better Stuff.

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1 year ago

When Satire Turns Real. Conclusion. How to react?
Resist, resist, resist. And vote this lot out. Make Natzact a one term government.
Happy Waitangi Day and thanks for reading.🙏💚🙏

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1 year ago
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When Satire Turns Real. Part three: the trick

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1 year ago
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When Satire Turns Real. Part two.
Hospitals

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1 year ago
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When Satire Turns Real. Part one.
School lunches.

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1 year ago
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Open letter 2024 Open letter 2024

Please read the attached letter from The Spinoff. With the arrival of 2 new Atlas board members on the board of NZ on Air, the Spinoff’s funding has ceased. Its readership is 400,000 but only 9080 ‘members’ who subscribe small monthly amounts. Please consider a monthly donation.
t.co/F6MJvQk7P1?s...

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1 year ago
Three quotations in three panels.
1. The Principles intend to bring clarity to treaty interpretations.
2. Direct quote of Te Tiriti article 2, about protecting chiefly authority and self-determination.
3. A statement about the real intent of the bill is to strip away treaty protections from Nz’s resources so more can be exploited ( think coal mines, oil drilling).

Toitū te Tiriti
Act is floundering. Don’t fall for their banal generalities.

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1 year ago
The Treaty Principles Bill is trying to manipulate people to think we do not already have equality before the law. The bill is an attempt at gaslighting.

Toitū te Tiriti
Excellent letter on the gaslighting attempt of the Treaty Principles Bill. Thanks to John Smyth.

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1 year ago
Te Tiriti is the roadblock to further corporate exploitation. That is why it is the target for the Treaty Principles Bill. The Treaty protects us all from corporate exploitation.

Toitū te Tititi
We must expose what sits behind the Treaty Principles Bill: the drive for corporate exploration. And we must resist.
Our message should be simple: The Treaty protects ALL New Zealanders from corporate exploitation.
That challenge is from all parties in government. We must resist.

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1 year ago

Toitū te Tiriti a poem

200,000 sign up to Stop the Treaty Principles Bill
42,000 chant Kill the Bill
What do we hear by way of response?
Silence from Luxon
Flippancy from Peters
Condescension from Seymour
Toitū te Tiriti lives
We are stronger together
Together for Te Tiriti
Kia Kaha

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1 year ago
The Act party is creating the divisiveness it claims to be against, and targeting National party voters in the process. Deeply cynical. Are those its “principles”: hypocrisy, deceit and bigotry?

Another great piece exposing the hypocrisy of the Act party, its cynical exploitation of division under the guise of unity.
It’s tosh and they know it.

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1 year ago

Christchurch Press as far as I can see from the piece posted.

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1 year ago
Flowers to support the Hikoi. Toitu te Tiriti.

Kia ora everyone. I’m new to Bluesky. First post sent on the Treaty Principles Bill just now. Flowers from home garden to support the Hikoi.
Toitu te Tiriti!

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1 year ago
Act is aiming to diminish rights Māori have over their own interests so that billionaires and big-money donors to Act can take advantage of the looser regulatory environment (also promoted by Act) in NZ.


Hugely helpful analysis of what is behind the Act party’s ahistorical intentionally misleading approach to the Treaty Principal’s Bill. It’s not about race or ethnicity, it’s about wealth. Thank you Donna Miles.

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