The Auditor-General has ruled out conducting an inquiry into fracking; check this out, from the A-G's office:
Auditor-General will not inquire into fracking operations in Taranaki
31 August 2012
After a petition was hosted on the website www.change.org on 25 July 2012, the Auditor-General received a number of requests to investigate concerns about regulating and monitoring of drill sites, production stations, hydraulic fracturing (fracking) operations, and land farms in the Taranaki region.The Auditor-General has decided not to inquire into this matter for the reasons set out below.As the public sector auditor, the Auditor-General focuses on financial, governance, management, and organisational issues. All inquiry requests are therefore assessed to see if they raise systemic issues of this kind and involve questions of significant public interest.The concerns raised in the petition are predominantly environmental.In March 2012, the Parliamentary Commissioner for the Environment announced an official investigation into fracking in New Zealand. As the Parliamentary Commissioner for the Environment has the technical knowledge and legislative mandate to conduct a thorough investigation of this contentious issue, a further inquiry by the Auditor-General is neither necessary nor an effective use of public money.
We are delighted to see that the Auditor-General is cognisant of using public money effectively. However we wonder if the repetitive carping of the Greens for inquiries into just about anything that might help New Zealand progress is "an effective use of public money".
5 comments:
Dear me, KS, you are in an anti Green mood.
The $120 million that the government is spending to promote and progress the asset sales is OK, but how dare the Greens spend a few thousand on collating the petition forms for a referendum to give everyone a say on whether they want the asset sales or not. Spending money to promote democracy is bad?
The wording of the petition is hardly controversial either: "Do you support the Government selling up to 49% of Meridian Energy, Mighty River Power, Genesis Power, Solid Energy and Air New Zealand?"
Given that most polls show over 60% of New Zealanders don't want the asset sales the referendum seems a good thing to support.
To my knowledge the Greens have only focussed on the Environment Commissioner's report, are you implying we were pushing for both?
As for your concerns about the Greens continual push for yet another inquiry: http://blog.greens.org.nz/2012/07/05/greens-call-for-inquiry-into-inquiries/ ;-)
Sheesh; I've caught myself a fish!
And didn't you know bsprout; when you're explaining, you're losing! Have a great weekend; just eight hours left of winter!
"when you're explaining, you're losing!"
Is that why you've failed to justify any of your crowd's cock-ups, cons and cronyism IV2?
You caught yourself an argument rather than a fish, KS, and a pretty winning explanation, which explains your response. ;-)
Have a great weekend yourself, I think Winter ended last month in Southland only 16 mm of rain over the past month (although this just causes me to worry about the inevitable catch up).
Hope you enjoyed the humour on the inquiry link.
Thank fracking Christ for that small saving of our taxation payments!!
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