Category: NZ Oil Spill

Fracking Hell !

Green Party urges moratorium on Fracking

The Green Party is renewing its calls for a moratorium on fracking following a recently released European Union report ‘Impacts of shale gas and shale oil extraction on the environment and on human health’

Fracking is a topical issue with 60 Minutes, The Sunday Star Times and Radio New Zealand covering it yesterday, and I was discussing it on Firstline this morning.

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Oil Clean Up Barges Prevented From Helping In Tauranga

Radio NZ interview

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Who Owns Rena?

http://thejackalman.blogspot.com/2011/10/who-owns-rena.html

I first became interested in who actually owns the MV Rena, a ship that ran aground on Wednesday night causing a large oil spill in the Bay of Plenty, because the mainstream media was failing to report this information.

Something felt very wrong about the lack of disclosure and National’s slow response to this disaster… and it appears my hunch was right!

The MV Rena, which was built in Germany in 1990 is currently registered to the Ofer Brothers Group, an Israeli company with ties to the Israeli military. The company’s holdings include Zim, Israel Chemicals, Oil Refineries Ltd (BAZAN) in Haifa, Bank Mizrahi, Tower Semiconductor and more.

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