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Good Riddance

Methanex is one of Aotearoa's largest polluters. It burns 45% of our total natural gas supply to produce low value methanol and millions of ...

Show threadStrypeyMar 16

"Methanex is one of Aotearoa's largest polluters. It burns 45% of our total natural gas supply to produce low value methanol and millions of tons of carbon dioxide. In the process, it also receives millions of dollars in pollution subsidies - roughly $40 million worth last year."

@norightturnnz, 2026

https://norightturn.blogspot.com/2026/03/good-riddance.html

Methanex was a #ThinkBig project. Remember how selling our public infrastructure was meant to turn subsidised lame ducks into revenue sources for the public purse?

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Good Riddance

Methanex is one of Aotearoa's largest polluters. It burns 45% of our total natural gas supply to produce low value methanol and millions of ...

Show threadStrypey

Here's a brief history of NZ governments from the 1980s to today, as a series of vignettes about life in a big flat (kiwi slang for a rental house shared by a group of independent adults), which we'll call Little NZ.

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#NZPolitics #PoliticalHistory

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Show threadStrypeyMar 16

1975: Rob Muldoon - nicknamed 'Piggy' - takes over as the head tenant of Little NZ.

Piggy is kind of an arsehole, who likes to throw his weight around, and hates coconuts. He's also pretty racist towards people from other Pacific islands, who he evicts at every opportunity. Sometimes to the extent of inviting his paramilitary war gaming mates around to kick in their door at dawn, and throw them and their stuff out on the street.

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1979: Service stations ramp up petrol prices 100%, and everyone in Little NZ starts hemorrhaging money

Suddenly the flatmates can barely afford beer and taylormades. They're worried they might have to start drinking at home to save money, instead of letting staff at the pub clean up after their parties, and rolling their own smokes.

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Show threadStrypeyMar 16

Despite being a bit if a dick, Piggy is pretty shrewd - before he starts bending the elbow - and fancies himself a long term thinker.

Piggy and his mate Bill Birch put their heads together and Think Big. Coming up with a bunch of DIY energy projects, and convincing the flatmates to put their names on a series of loans to fund them. After all, if Little NZ is more energy independent, it won't matter so much what petrol costs, and they can afford to pay the loans *and* buy grog and smokes.

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Show threadStrypeyMar 16

Problem is, another thing Piggyback is an arsehole about is the flat finances. He won't follow any decisions made in flat meetings about money, unless he agrees with them. He refuses to let anyone else look the bills or the statements from the flat account, so they can see what's going on.

The other flatmates are worried Piggy might be bankrupting Little NZ, and keeping it from them, and one day they insist he put all his chips on the table. And also open the books and let them all see.

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Piggy storms off, gets drunk, and then storms back, telling his flatmates they can either trust him to do the job, or let "the other guy" do it. They overwhelmingly choose "the other guy"

1984: David Lange replaces Piggy as head tenant of Little NZ

To be continued ...

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