Are ‘enviros’ evil,or trying to protect property + reassert control over behemoths? New Zealand Navy + Petrobras vs. Maori fishermen
A quick show of hands:
- How many of you think that the recent protests by New Zealand “greens” and Maori fishermen against Government-licensed oil exploration activities by PetroBras is evidence of a blind envirofascist hatred of mankind?
- How many of you cheer on the “capitalist” exploration and development of government-owned resources by big and state-entanged corporations, over the quaint claims to “fishing rights” by locals?
- How many of you think that PetroBras and its shareholders are the real victims of these protests?
- How many think it’s a sign of how government “ownership” of public resources leads to zero-sum politicization of decisions, and of decisions that are tilted toward activities that provide revenues to government, while shifting risks to local communities and individuals?
- Does anybody see any parallels with BP and the Gulf? With the crony capitalism supporting Tokyo Electric, the operator of the Fukushima nuclear plants?
I posted a few tweets on this topic, which I copy below in chronological order:
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NZ Navy intervention in oil protest “disgusting” – Maori MPs |http://bit.ly/gWcF5s #PetroBras #Avatar #Indigenous #p2#GovtOwned #tcot
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Maori Sovereignty? “Maori feel the pollution risk to the water+fish stocks is too great” http://bit.ly/gnYcnL #PetroBras #Avatar#GovtOwned
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Maori skipper detained by Navy warship for defending ancestral fishing waters from Oil Drilling http://bit.ly/dKzY7e #PetroBras#GovtOwned
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Maori fisherman: “We are defending tribal waters+our rights from reckless Govt policies” http://bit.ly/f5WxeM #PetroBras #Avatar#GovtOwned
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“opening up natl parks+our coastline to transnationl corps shows contempt+will face fierce+sustained local resistance”http://bit.ly/g3WXKO
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Petrobras protest+Maritime Rules http://bit.ly/dGtDDE |clear frm#BP+#TEPCO tht Gov ‘ownership’ leads to poor risk mgt+theft frm communities
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“Gov has awakened some sort of taniwha.We’re all virgins at doing this.We never fight” http://bit.ly/eA0QJw #PetroBras #Avatar#GovtOwned
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“April 11: NZ Navy ships+Air Force planes begin monitoring the protest along with police” http://bit.ly/eA0QJw #PetroBras #Avatar#GovtOwned
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“after the licence was given-in what way is that consultation? It isn’t, not even close” http://bit.ly/gesf9l #PetroBras #Avatar #GovtOwned
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Te Karere Ipurangi » Blog Archive » Oil surveys damage sea creatures organs – ECO http://bit.ly/ejvG0k #PetroBras #Avatar#GovtOwned #tcot
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MP says it is a disgrace…wrong for NZ citizen to be threatened by Defense for opposing a deal btwn gov+foreign oil cohttp://bit.ly/h8Vp7r
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NZ Gov happy w discretion to act unilaterally 2increase Gov revenues+to ignore locals http://bit.ly/gHETPl#UnobtainiumUberAlles #PetroBras
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In NZ as in #Gulf,locals trying to exercise community crtl treated as ‘terrorists’ http://bit.ly/fUgpcN #PetroBras #GovtOwned #Avatar
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Rikirangi Gage to #PetroBras “We are defending tribal waters+our rights frm reckless Gov policies” http://bit.ly/gkSgbv #IchBinEinMaori
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AUDIO:Rikirangi Gage of te Whānau-ā-Apanui vessel radios captain of #PetroBras oil survey ship http://bit.ly/hAkqJd #OurSeasNotYours#Avatar
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