Tuesday, 12 August 2025 10:11

Drill baby, drill!

Written by The Hound

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OPINION: While the destruction of NZ's oil and gas industry by Jacinda Ardern's band of merry vandals was virtue signalling on a heroic scale - producing no environmental benefit whatsoever - the politician vowing to make that industry whole again, Shane Jones, is not above a bit of virtue signalling of his own.

The Hound applauds the intent of undoing the legislative vandalism, and Jones for admitting his part in it, having been part of that government.

However, with the current Opposition scaring the market by promising to undo any changes Jones makes now, Jones himself will know that international investors won't touch us with a barge pole; the high costs and long timeframes require country to have a stable, long-term policy on these things.

With the Labour-Greens-Māori Party firmly against it, Jones will struggle to get anyone to "drill baby, drill!"

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