CIRCADIAN RHYTHM SYSTEM SKYLINE GARDEN SALAD
On the twelfth wing platform of the secured rooftop garden circle, David strolled through the aisle between the rows of lush bountiful green taking what he needed. He altered the the nutrient blends that feed into the garden's atmos-derived mist jets once a week, according to his body's shifting eruthrocyte and leukocytes needs. Mesculin, garlic chives and baby kamo kamo took his fancy today. The sky's light in the setting sun calmed the circadian rhythm system of the circus called his nerves from the day. (more…)
SACOUSTIC INSULATION DESIGN TECHNOLOGY & GREEN ROOVED CITYSCAPES
Photo: this rooftop garden utilises sacoustic insulation. A layer of glass wool, rock wool or polyurethane foam panels, weighing about 30 Kg / mc, with a vapor barrier is laid out on a slab. The green is then built on a roof or on a terrace of a house, to avoid condensation.
The roof garden not only can feed an apartment building (if growing veges), it’s good for the environment. How exactly? Here’s why:
Water Balance: the green roof can retain up to 70% of the rains to return the water to the environment in the form of water vapor. Air cleaner: the green roof can seal up to 20% of dust that circulates in city air. Noises muffled: the turf absorbs sound. Temperatures Mitigated: reduces heat loss in winter.–source: happy2B@home.
~Posted by Horiwoodblog, Aotearoa New Zealand, Polynesia Asia-Pacific. 23.1.13~
CHINA’S GREEN EXPERIMENTAL INFRASTRUCTURE + CONSTRUCTION ASIA-PACIFIC + 10 POSTS
photo: Kiwi constructs 2013 – the heroes we know.
Ten ideas we’re reading online right now are:
3. Rihanna
5. Mission Impossible + pop culture reflections
7. Brain science – new horizons +going green
8. World ag – stats of whose who in the world?
9. What does NZ politics need?
10. Sir Ralph Norris
Photo: Shanghai China’s $500b solar energy experimental infrastructure. WSJ.
~Posted by Horiwoodblog, Aotearoa New Zealand, Polynesia Asia-Pacific. 23.1.13~
GROWTH BUSINESS COMPANIES, CANADA 2013
start up industries doing well in canada: candy, confectionary companies. iphone apps. health-care technology. beer, wine, liquor (bulk). software as a service to improve business. home health care. yoga. technical and trade schools. fast casual dining. green building construction. niche public consulting in pr damage control, saving companies money, reducing finanical losses. edu-tech: technology schools and training. temporary staffing firms – flexi work schedules. government services in local governance infrastructure allocation. accounting services. repair services. self improvement products and services including motivational insights industry. energy sector – green tech installations especially.
if in canada, i’d probably do the candy line. best health boosting chocolate eva.
source: inc canada. photo: the best chocolate shop i’ve been to: see’s candies california.
~Posted by Horiwoodblog, Aotearoa New Zealand, Polynesia Asia-Pacific. 22.1.13~
ELEVATED GARDENS – WHAT COMMUNITES CAN DESIGN
Elevated garden. A Scott Shigley photo.
~Posted by Horiwoodblog, Aotearoa New Zealand, Polynesia Asia-Pacific. 22.1.13~
THE HORIWOOD TOP TEN 22ND JANUARY 2012
The Horiwood Top Ten are:
1. Sports, science, film ideas, entertainment
3. Ideas Crest
6. Life after the teddy bears’ picnic
8. Keith Urban
10. Rugby
~Top photo: MM. Posted by Horiwoodblog, Aotearoa New Zealand, Polynesia Asia-Pacific. 22.1.13~
GREEN ROOVES CITYSCAPES TECHNOLOGY
Grass roll outs, especially on cityscape rooftops are fast becoming the rage. Beijing, could do with a grass company that specializes in decking it out in the green stuff.
Verlyn Klinkenborg wrote: “Think of the millions of acres of unnatural rooftops around the globe. And now imagine returning some of that enormous human footprint to nature—creating green spaces where there was once only asphalt and gravel. If a certain sum of human happiness is the by-product, who’s to complain?”
A few links to green roof cities development: 1. Singapore shouts out to Beijing. 2. US, Japan – guidelines. 3. northern scandinavia started it: 8 incredible green rooves. 4. Penrith, UK (in summer). 5. 115% growth USA in one year. 6. A view. 7. rather than grass (that uses lots of expensive water) grow food, give it away.
Photo: Diane Cook and Len Jenshel.
~Posted by Horiwoodblog, Aotearoa New Zealand, Polynesia Asia-Pacific. 21.1.13~
RESPECTING THE LAND AS PROVIDENCE IN YOUR BACKYARD – TONY CENICOLA’S PHOTO ESSAYS ARE ARTSY HIP
Hippy mosaic lifestyles of New York’s Portia Munson and Jared Handelsman were photographed for The Big Apple’s audiences by photographer Tony Cenicola.
The artsy couple live off the land and create art from what they find on their 83 acres. Learning from nature is what they’re all about. I kinda dig that. It’s almost similar to how Kiwis roll too in New Zealand respecting nature and creating from it. It’s like… get on that train man. Enjoy the world more if near the countryside.
–Tony’s photos appear in the New York Times, Wednesday September 19th daily edition.
~Posted by Horiwoodblog, Aotearoa New Zealand, Polynesia Asia-Pacific. 20.9.12~
STORMS, HEAT WAVES, POWER OUTAGES – USA ELECTRICITY IN CITY PLANNING NEEDS TO CHANGE QUICKER TO GREENER LIVING DESIGN
America needs to get a lot quicker in developing energy (electricity) that isn’t so fossil fuels dependant. A lot of USA’s electricity is also generated from nuclear energy.
As global warming changes weather patterns (due to increased industrial pollution and war’s scars accumulate on the earth’s landscapes) substantially, this is critical for American citizens peace of mind, health, well being and survival as a people.
Watching New Zealand foeign correspondent, Jack Tame reporting from Detroit on the news here, about the record heat wave in parts of the USA combined with power outages, really hit the message home. His coverage looks like so: Triple-digit heat wave continues in Eastern US, and Fierce thunderstorms knock out power in US.
The one lady saying: “What people don’t understand is that when you get to over 55 years of age, air conditioning is so important to your health.”
Good point. There’s no air conditioning without electricity and sadly, there’s no electricity in much of the USA without fossil fuels being burned to create electiricity for air conditioners in rising hot summer conditions. Perhaps someone can create an app from the USA, that allows people the opportunity to switch their power from a fossil fuels generated power company to a green energy one, instead? The USA is so good at apps science creation.
Watch the clip above, as a reminder we need to think greener quicker, for the USA.
Our hearts go out to the lives lost within the USA this week. Peace!
[Here's a website that can help].
~Posted by Horiwoodblog, Aotearoa New Zealand, Polynesia Asia-Pacific. 2.7.12~
LIQUID ENERGY ASSETS, DAIRY ASSETS, REAL ESTATE EXPORT SALES ECONOMIES – FONTERRA FARMERS, MINING & NEW ZEALAND
In Mining, Sustainable Prosperity, Stimulating Business Growth & Wanting Farmland Capital News:
This morning on New Zealand TV, we had some very good interviews:
Blondes in green: Hollywood action star and local girl, Lucy Lawless has turned green-thinking eco-warrior. She was speaking from Rio’s Earth summit. Amy Adams, a new MP, versed in a bunch of boys cliches also appeared to give a view on balancing a green looking country with sploshes of liquid cash from mining monies. She also got shalted a tax-payer funded trip to Rio, to give the interview some credibility. Both girls can be seen as two sides of a coin on fossil fuels economies effects. Both gave good comments. Both wore green.
What did they share? Both concentrated on New Zealand’s potential to export energy. Amy is arguing more for New Zealand to realise there will be a risk to the environment, yet to free up fossil fuels mining exports to the world, helps us “make a bunch of bob.” Lawless spoke more about green energy techonologies in New Zealand, being exported more around the world (for example geothermal, solar, Lanzatech typed companies knowledge etc). To export the knowledge, would save the planet’s longevity longterm, so Lawless’ views are timelessly good, with her argument to grandstand on. Lucy also raised the issue, that there’s a feeling in Rio that politicians are in BigOil’s pockets on fossil fuels mining, hence their coms perhaps need to be tracked and transparent – for their own health’s sake and that of their families. As fossil fuel addicted nations depend on wrangling oil supplies, to turn a light or computer on, oil is a tempting, highly seductive and dangerous world. Lawless is fearless on the issue. She seemed honest. Perhaps, why people speaking on energy should always be balanced out with people like Lawless. I appreciated both views! :)
Stephen Joyce: Super Ministry – A lot is riding on Stephen Joyce’s political eyes (vision) and talent to build an economy. His new ministry merges departments that are listed as future drivers of the economy (towards job creation in valuable areas). His number 1 forte is that his ministry is structured like a hub of business knowledge. Cross-pollination is what many claim Joyce brings (more…)
CHIA SEEDS SUPERFOODS & GROW YOUR OWN DRUGS TV SHOWS – ENTREPRENEURS OF HEALTH & BEAUTY INDUSTRY BIZ IDEAS
[Totara berries fruiting - Courtesy of Wairere Boulders website]
On Kiwi TV today, I’m looking at a nutritionist talking the buzz topic in New Zealand as a Superfoods Growing Nation that’s on the rise heading towards a 9 million populated planet by the year 2050. Obviously growing the best food and creating life-sustaining products is in NZ’s bright future.
In particular, on TV I liked learning about how Chia seeds have more vitamins and minerals than blueberries. Being boron rich is the seeds forte, helping the bloodstream absorb calcim. Chia seeds are also rich in calcium and protein. Wow!
Yesterday, I also saw a BBC Show that teaches people how to Grow Your Own Drugs. The emphasis of the show is on making your own beauty remedies and save a bunch of bucks, while making better beauty products yourself. The link to that show is tres creamy.
It’s awesome to see entrepreneurs of the healthy and food industries stepping up offering good ideas to grow economies with a realistic people focus too.
To learn how to make your own lavendar bath bomb keep reading: (more…)
LUCY LAWLESS VOWS TO FIGHT ON FOR GREENPACE & SAFE ENVIRONMENTS FOR CHILDREN
In totally illegal New Zealand families news:
Boston.Com writes: “WELLINGTON, New Zealand—”Xena: Warrior Princess” actress Lucy Lawless says she has “no regrets” about boarding and preventing an oil-drilling ship from leaving a New Zealand dock, a protest action that saw her plead guilty on Thursday to trespass charges.
~Posted by Horiwoodblog, Aotearoa New Zealand, Polynesia Asia-Pacific. 14.6.12~
THINKING RENEWEABLE ENERGY POWERED DATA STORAGE FARMS
Haylix data storage farm, prefers servers over cloud technology.
Michael Richardson has recommended building data storage farms on Dell Servers and OpenStack. Cloud arrays cost $AUD2 a gigabyte a month, and Dell Servers $AUD0.12.
The comparison is interesting, as New Zealand moves into renewable energy more, data storage farms will grow with this. Guilt free, green powered data storage. Why not?!
~Posted by Horiwoodblog, Aotearoa New Zelaand, Polynesia Asia-Pacific. 11.6.12~
GRASS @ YORK MINSTER
Photo of the Day: Grass @ York Minster… Believe it or not. Photo. AP.
As you’d say in Hollywood… that’s quite a roll out.
~Posted by Horiwoodblog, Aotearoa New Zealand, Polynesia Asia-Pacific. 9.6.12~
AMERICANS PREPARE FOR OCEAN GARBAGE OF TSUNAMI DEBRIS ON COASTLINES
This is not good – Nasty Great Pacific Garbage Patch Coming to a Beach Near You!
West Coast prepares for Japanese tsunami debris
And, via Canada: Does Japanese tsunami debris threaten ocean life?
New reports say ocean garbage has increased 100 fold in the world.
[Clearly, we need engineers creating technology to clean up oceans more].
~Posted by Horiwoodblog, Aotearoa New Zealand, Polynesia Asia-Pacific. 8.6.12~
ANGELINA JOLIE & UN’S WILLIAM HAGUE MEET TO DISCUSS RAPE AWARENESS IN CONFLICT ZONES
If you look back at the last fifty years, it is us as human beings that are the most guilty of ‘raping’ the earth’s resources to achieve our lifestyle needs.
Today however, Hollywood actress and global humanitarian Angelina Jolie is doubling as a movie director doing marketing in conjunction with the UN to raise awareness on the topic of rape. Often wars, themselves tell horrific stories of rape, both to people and also landscape after war’s scarring effects have been left behind after war. History tells us that war is always brutal.
Anyway, the usually upbeat Hollywood news blog, Just Jared, reports today:
“Angelina Jolie shakes hands with Britain’s Foreign Secretary William Hague on Tuesday (May 29) at the Foreign Commonwealth Office in London, England.
The 36-year-old actress helped launch an initiative that aims to combat and prevent sexual violence overseas by drawing “on the skills of doctors, lawyers, police, psychologists, forensic experts and experts in the care and protection of victims and witnesses.” (more…)
ESTUARY WONDERLANDS – AOTEAROA NEW ZEALAND
[Photo - Kaipara Harbour, looking North courtesy of K. Webb].
In Estuaries Island Paradise News: An estuary is an area of water on the coast, where fresh water and sea water mix. It often forms at the mouth of a river, with large mud flats where the tides wash in and out. It is a unique home for many creatures, and a few plants. Estuaries form a fascinating ecosystem that has evolved in the mud flats of New Zealand’s coasts. This fragile habitat is vulnerable to time and tide, and to erosion, pollution and other effects of human activity.
There are about 300 estuaries around New Zealand’s coastline, including the South Island fiords. The biggest is Kaipara Harbour. The estuaries formed about 6,500 years ago when the sea began to flood river valleys and bays.
The creatures of the estuary range from tiny organisms to eels and godwits. Burrowing mudworms are eaten by birds and fish. Crabs make tunnels or hide under rocks. Cockles help filter the water and are food for birds and humans. Many native fish, including flounder and kahawai, use the estuary. Flocks of wading birds such as herons feed on the mudflats, and thousands of godwits and other migrating birds arrive each spring. Swamp birds such as pūkeko and bitterns breed among the mangroves and rushes.
Source: Te Ara.
~Posted by Horiwoodblog.Com, Aotearoa New Zealand, Polynesia Asia-Pacific. 17.5.12~
AQUACULTURE, WATERWAYS HEALTH & DAIRY FARMING – FISH, CASH COWS & HALLUCINATING KAIPARA MAYORS
Farming is such a diverse field in New Zealand. Since 2009, the world’s population needs hitting 7 billion has meant that New Zealand’s ability to farm in various ways and produce high protein foods is the no.1 gift New Zealand can give the world in the years ahead. Farmers of all kinds, therefore in New Zealand, are stars of global populations of people. Kiwi farmers have what the world needs.
In NZ, we’re obsessed with black and white cows here as they pay the country’s bills, while everyone else sorta pretends to – pretty much – with the best they can strum up with business endeavors in this very stringent and tad boring economy – of them blasted GFC years.
Anyway, worries about the waterways farmers are damaging running extra cows (to bolster against the $3billion dip this year of dairy prices) while chasing the buck are causing concern. More farmers are converting their sheep farms to dairy farms and The Greens have their hemp knickers in a bunch as to how this is affecting streams, lakes and rivers etc and adding to green house gases on the planet too.
Cows (and farmers) can be very harsh on the waterways of New Zealand. Often they don’t fix up the mess – it’s a longstanding issue with a rather entitled land ownership position that many landowners have taken in New Zealand for quite some time. Everyone is farmer proud here, yet there’s a balancing act farners have still yet to find, while producing sloshes of liquid cash, the country needs.
Perhaps it’s time to develop aquaculture farming a bit more.
If that interests you, here’s a useful link: Sustainable Farming Fund – New round includes aquaculture – to find out more.
And what will Kaipara dairy farmers do, when their clown mayor (I’m sorry but Kaipara does have a clown mayor who wants to clear his entire county of existing residence who voted him in) has proposed a 33% rates hike up to pay for council debt? Some farmers even claim their rates could go up 55%. Does that mean that’s a recipe for being forced to even run more cows on the same whenua (land) just to give more to the council? Or does Kaipapara’s mayor need his pharmaceutical prescription record disclosed to the public, instead?
So how can aquaculture help farmer types be more aware of the earth’s gift of water and to be kinder to the landscape to make New Zealand more sustainable? Are New Zealanders happy how the landscape is being re-engineered under current economic engineering as to ‘the best way forward’ that farmers are being encouraged to pursue, at this time? Is the GFC (and effects too of it on dairy product prices globally) being used as an act of ‘economic bullying’ on farmers or New Zealand landscapes and waterways too? And what do the local Maori Iwi think of all this occurring within their tribal rohe (areas) as well?
In trivia news, Northland farmers are being encouraged to sell yearlings for shipment to China at $1,750 a head in the local paper.
[Photos via Earth First and Yachting New Zealand].
~Posted by Horiwoodblog, Aotearoa New Zealand, Polynesia Asia-Pacific. 15.5.12~
POTATOES & CORN STARCH PACKAGING INVESTMENTS – SEAPLEX REVEALS HOW PLASTIC PACKAGING IS TURNING THE NORTH PACIFIC OCEAN NEAR AMERICA INTO A GARBAGE PATCH
Foget the fad for ‘gluten free’ products in the USA. The era of biodegrable compostable plastic is upon us.
Should the US navy be assigned to ocean clean up full time? or a group similar?
We need to be more aware of disposing of plastic packaging better. Or consumers need to be offered an alternative to buying products in plastic, like biodegrable and compostable packaging too.
If we don’t stop our “plastic people consumption” syndrome, we will continue to have a drastic effect on marine life in the Pacific Ocean region near the USA, mainly.
The Scripps Environmental Accumulation of Plastic Expedition, known as SEAPLEX, traveled about 1,000 miles west of California in August 2009.
A statement on Scripps’ website said the scientists had “documented an alarming amount of human-generated trash, mostly broken down bits of plastic the size of a fingernail floating across thousands of miles of open ocean.”
SEAPLEX scientist and marine oceanographer, Miriam Goldstein has observed, “Plastic only became widespread in late ’40s and early ’50s, but now everyone uses it and over a 40-year range we’ve seen a dramatic increase in ocean plastic,” she said. “Historically we have not been very good at stopping plastic from getting into the ocean so hopefully in the future we can do better.”"
She told BBC News that the addition of “hundreds of millions of hard surfaces” to the Pacific was “quite a profound change.”
MSNBC also notes: “A garbage patch has also been found in the Atlantic Ocean, lying a few hundreds miles off the North American coast from Cuba to Virginia.
Oceanographer Curtis Ebbesmeyer, who said he coined the phrase the “Great Pacific Garbage Patch,” told msnbc.com by phone that the only solution was to switch to using biodegradable plastic and let the plastic gradually disperse.
“We can’t clean it up. It’s just too big. You’d have to have the entire U.S. Navy out there, round the clock, continuously towing little nets. And it’s produced so fast, they wouldn’t be able to keep up,” he said.
Ebbesmeyer said in 10,000 years scientists might find a layer of plastic in the ground and use this as evidence of “the plastic people.”"
What a timely story. We are at war with the environment, while economists cast us all in the middle of economic wars of the GFC crises. In fact, our biggest enemies in the world are ourselves and our own consumption. How do we modify our ways for future generations following after us? And for the planet itself?
A company that makes packaging from potatoes starch holds some real clues in preserving the North Pacific Ocean. Check them here: www.potatopak.com and www.earthshell.com. Italian company, www.novamont.com has some good solutions as well. A cornstarch packaging is also available via Australian scientists. Let’s support their products and be better friends of our oceans.
~Posted by Horiwoodblog, Aotearoa New Zealand, Polynesia Asia-Pacific. 10.5.12~
NEW ZEALAND AVOCADO GROWERS NEED A STRONGER LOYALTY CLUB
An avocado is a natural superfood. Everyone in the world should know of its goodness.
Reading in the New Zealand Herald this morning after unexpectedly being gifted a year’s free subscription (delivered each morning) from a lovely, Pakeha and Maori Kiwi couple, I read about avocado growers in New Zealand.
Bascially, avocado growers need a stronger loyalty club to supply to in order to grow this sector of yummy things to eat being grown more in Kiwiland. Living in California turned me into a bit of an avocado freak (it was the spicy Mexican diet that did it. Not to mention the absolute obsession California has with avocado served with sushi). Looking back, it was a Pakeha Uncle who was one of the first New Zealanders to grow avos as a trial, in NZ many years ago.
On school holidays he taught me how to eat them from the shell with soy sauce as his favored seasoning to bring out the flavours of the earth’s creamy fruit. Uncle was so proud of producing his first crop. He would marvel at the way nature produces green and deep purple together in an avocado’s textures.
Today Susan Edmonds writes of Graeme Laurence‘s suggestions to increase the market here in NZ. Laurence who speaks for Fressure Foods suggests that if restaurants buy NZ grown avos then this could generate $1million extra in sales for local gardeners and growers. The article notes that 65% of NZ’s annual crop of 33,000 tonnes is exported. (more…)
THE GRATITUDE FOUND IN GIVING – MAY 2012
On the 5th January 2012, I was gifted a brand new laptop so I could blog in New Zealand.
On the 26th April 2012, I was gifted a T Stick and a year’s internet subscription so I could blog in New Zealand too. Both these two gifts were very unexpected, drawing a smile each day when I turn our laptop on.
A blogger’s gift, in one way, is a daily audience of readers. Giving is about creating a living dialogue of exchanges. So to everyone who gives in many ways each day… thank you.
Why we give – Five Quotes:
“When you learn, teach. When you get, give.”–Maya Angelou
“Memories are perhaps the best gifts of all.”–Gloria Gaither
Because forests give us so much: “A nation that destroys its soils destroys itself. Forests are the lungs of our land, purifying the air and giving fresh strength to our people.”– Franklin D. Roosevelt.
“The essence of all art is to have pleasure in giving pleasure,”–Dale Carnegie reckons
“For it is in giving that we receive,”–Francis of Assisi‘s freaky mystic words.
~Posted by Horiwood.Com, Aotearoa New Zealand, Polynesia Asia-Pacific. 5.5.12~
SYNGAS PRODUCTION – THE MOST POPULAR BLOG TOPIC RIGHT NOW – 5.5.12 @ 7pm
Most popular topic on this blog right now is:
BLACK LIQUOR ENERGY – PINE FOREST ENERGY HUBS – SYNGAS GREEN ENERGY PRODUCTION
I think people want to drive guilt-free (with less oil dependancy) then we may give credit for.
A lot of you are greener than I am. Nice one! :)
~Posted by Horiwood.Com, Aotearoa New Zealand, Polynesia Asia-Pacific. 5.5.12~
GREEN PINE GAS (GPG) – NEW ZEALAND – MAY 2012
I was thinking… unless we think greener, our planet is being consumed too fast.
So, what if,
Entrepreneurial Iwi (Maori tribes of New Zealand in conjunction with Pakeha Kiwi tribes) set up pine energy hubs. The energy produced from pine tree wood pulp processing could then be fused into petroleum produced from New Zealand.
The resulting fusion of petroleum could be called Green Pine Gas. The new gas would be an expression of being more earth conscious in making a start towards renewable energy powered lifestyles.
Green Pine Gas (GPG) could be made up of the 20% pine gas fused into petroleum (oil based) fuel mix. GPG could be offered at gas pumps alongside normal fuel, to give people the option of saving the planet in their fuel consumption choices, if they wanted to.
If the idea was a hit at the pump, then we’d perhaps all be setting a trend to save the earth 1/5th more with cars’ fuel useage, than we currently are in the world. It’s a start to living a bit smarter on the roads of the world with our mobility habits that constitute our lifestyles we live currently.
What do you think of this idea? I know that some descendants of Ngati Whatua Maori tribe for example own a forest of pine trees.
[Photo - Woodhill Forest courtesy of Southern Edge website].
~Posted by Horiwood.Wordpress.Com, Aotearoa New Zealand, Polynesia Asia-Pacific. 4.5.12~
OIL VAMPIRES, NEW ZEALAND NEWS – THE LATEST ON HOW MUCH DO WE BLEED OIL, GAS, COAL, GOLD, SILVER, COPPER RARE EARTH MINERALS
Reading news from the weekend gone, I catch up on the fracking debate in New Zealand. I also check out what royalties are being paid for what fossil fuels and minerals and precious metals in other parts of the world. I also look at whose in favor of fracking and what nations are steering well away from it. Here’s what I see:
Mining royalties of 8% are too low. It’s a “pound of flesh” issue the fossil fuels game, where the landscape will never be the same again. No cheap skate buyers allowed.
Oil and gas creates 3700 direct jobs in Taranaki alone. “Most of them” (the lower paying jobs) are taken by New Zealanders. The higher paying jobs go to foreigners who then become citizens.
Oil and minerals are worth over $4 billion (declared income) to New Zealand as at April 2012. The mineral wealth sector could triple its profits to $12 billion a year or more. The government has a gold, coal and oil lust on its hands to manage. However drilling, mining (and even fracking) are the methods used to appease this lust in the world.
Oil and gas are the 4th largest export industry in NZ. In Taranaki, the 3700 jobs stem from the oil and gas industry. Dairying provides 2500 jobs, and tourism – about 2000 jobs. (more…)
