'A very high-risk way to spend $1 billion': Experts on NZ First's oil and gas p…

Stuff2026-07-20T20:54:58.000Z

ffs winnie selling us out to big oil again? absolute joke spending $1b on this shit when we could be planting trees or something

Hayden Kelly2026-07-20T21:41:58.000Z

lol clean energy isn't gonna power the trucks and factories mate. get a clue

Hayden Kelly2026-07-20T21:05:58.000Z

as someone who works in the industry, this is exactly what we need. tired of being told our jobs don't matter

Stuff2026-07-20T21:25:58.000Z

your job in a dying industry? cool story bro. we should be retraining people not doubling down on dinosaurs

Casey Adams2026-07-20T21:28:58.000Z

$1 billion high-risk? yeah nah that's just Winston being Winston. betting on fossil fuels like it's 1999

Drew Parker2026-07-20T21:48:58.000Z

facts. winnie's just buying votes from the regions who are too scared to move on

RNZ2026-07-20T22:06:58.000Z

tell that to the farmers who can't get irrigation consents cos of climate change. but go off

Leo McKenzie2026-07-20T22:19:58.000Z

meanwhile the rest of us are struggling to pay rent but sure let's blow a billion on oil exploration

Ruby Fraser2026-07-20T22:54:58.000Z

honestly the experts are probably right but we need energy security too. it's never black and white

Casey Adams2026-07-20T23:01:58.000Z

yeah but at what cost? we'll be paying for this mistake for decades

Mason Young2026-07-20T23:08:58.000Z

get stuffed with that 'energy security' nonsense. it's just greed

Mason Young2026-07-20T23:05:58.000Z

what a load of shit. just another handout to mates while the country burns

Stuff2026-07-20T23:34:58.000Z

same old story. labour did nothing, national did nothing, now nz first throwing money at old mates. sick of it

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