Coal mining in national parks, drilling for oil in deep water off the coast of New Zealand. If the USA can't fix the problem when it all turns to custard what on earth does the NZ government think they can do?
"In any sane world, this accident should make governments, especially that of the United States, give immediate priority to investment in technology that will, as soon as possible, provide non-fossil ways of fuelling the vehicles the world cannot, seemingly, do without. Some, especially in the US, seem to imagine that if BP is made to pay for everything, then the matter is resolved. It won't. Deep-sea drilling needs to be reassessed, and some measure of responsibility needs to be accepted by anyone who gets in a vehicle powered by an internal combustion engine and turns the ignition. This is not just wicked BP, or nasty Americans trying to do down our pension divvies. It is far, far bigger than that."Good article in NZ Herald June 13
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