Nick Young

Matt Steinglass @mattsteinglass.bsky.social [ View ] Jun 25, 2024 at 19:55 UTC

People said Greenpeace was nuts in 2009 to predict 921GW of installed solar by 2030. Last year there was 1,419GW. Cost dropped 95% from 2008-20 and it’s dropping faster. There will be vast amounts of cheap clean energy in the future; we just need to use it.
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Nick Young @nickofnz.bsky.social [ View ] Jun 25, 2024 at 20:32 UTC

'Limited evidence' for NZ Govt's approach to farm emissions – officials

Failing to reduce agricultural climate pollution will mean the rest of the economy is left to pick up the slack – and the bill – officials warned

#TooManyCows #nzpol

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Nick Young @nickofnz.bsky.social [ View ] Jun 25, 2024 at 00:51 UTC

But Chris Luxon's Fast Track Wrecking Bill could now expose those non-National Park areas to logging and mining. Could the hard-fought indigenous forest protection gains we won 20-plus years ago now be at risk along with other forests managed by DOC? Not without a fight.

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Nick Young @nickofnz.bsky.social [ View ] Jun 25, 2024 at 00:50 UTC

Of the 130,000 ha, nearly 18,000 ha was added to National Parks, but the remaining 112,000 ha was distributed across the classifications of ecological area, scenic and scientific reserves, wildlife management, amenity, and conservation area and conservation park.

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Nick Young @nickofnz.bsky.social [ View ] Jun 25, 2024 at 00:50 UTC

The Clark Govt transferred 130,000 hectares of former Timberlands West Coast indigenous forest to DOC management in 2001–02 following the Forests (West Coast Accord) Act 2000. Those primordial taonga forests remain standing today, but some could be at risk again.

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Nick Young @nickofnz.bsky.social [ View ] Jun 25, 2024 at 00:49 UTC

After a long occupation of the Charleston Forest, many direct actions and years of campaigning on the West Coast and all around Aotearoa, we prevailed. The forests were saved. Logging stopped, and the forests were protected soon after the Helen Clark Govt took power in 1999.

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Nick Young @nickofnz.bsky.social [ View ] Jun 25, 2024 at 00:49 UTC

Inspired by this poster, my activism began in 1997 when I joined the successful Native Forest Action (NFA) campaign to stop state-owned enterprise Timberlands from logging ancient forests on the West Coast. Now, the Fast Track Bill could threaten those same forests🧵

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Nick Young @nickofnz.bsky.social [ View ] Jun 21, 2024 at 21:05 UTC

I was there that day. My job was to get the images and race in to Westport on an old motorbike to upload them very slowly at the internet cafe And it took a few years of campaigning but we were successful. Those old-growth forests remain protected today.

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Nick Young @nickofnz.bsky.social [ View ] Jun 21, 2024 at 20:34 UTC

Are those new ferries still on order? The old one seems to be ‘back on track’.

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