Ailsa Pehi
@ailsaaotearoa.bsky.social
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These full hydro lakes and the dirt-cheap power they provide is obviously the cause of the predicted 5% increase in power prices this year
#nzpol
#nzpol
📢 Record rainfall in both the North and South Islands in January saw flows coming into the lakes exceed historical averages.
Wet summer keeps electricity hydro lakes full
www.rnz.co.nz
February 13, 2026 at 1:38 AM
These full hydro lakes and the dirt-cheap power they provide is obviously the cause of the predicted 5% increase in power prices this year
#nzpol
#nzpol
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David Seymour's fav group working with the far right in Europe.
Heartland Institute ^ is one of Atlas Network’s hundreds of partners that has worked hardest to destroy consensus on climate.
Merchants of Doubt describes many Atlas partners’ work. Protecting dirty industry is a big job & it pays.
www.theguardian.com/environment/...
Merchants of Doubt describes many Atlas partners’ work. Protecting dirty industry is a big job & it pays.
www.theguardian.com/environment/...
Revealed: US climate denial group working with European far-right parties
Representatives of Heartland Institute linking up with MEPs to campaign against environmental policies
www.theguardian.com
February 13, 2026 at 1:50 AM
David Seymour's fav group working with the far right in Europe.
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Our government wont allow serious investment into renewables in NZ because our government own 51% of the gentailers making 93% margins on selling is the most expensive power they can possibly generate
They get paid by the highest cost KWH they generate on all their capacity
Our market is broken
They get paid by the highest cost KWH they generate on all their capacity
Our market is broken
From the Govt's own website:
"Subsidies for fossil fuel consumption and production create trade and investment distortions. Making GHG emitting fuels cheaper to produce or buy is an incentive to use more and discourages investment in renewable energy."
Hear hear
www.mfat.govt.nz/en/environme...
"Subsidies for fossil fuel consumption and production create trade and investment distortions. Making GHG emitting fuels cheaper to produce or buy is an incentive to use more and discourages investment in renewable energy."
Hear hear
www.mfat.govt.nz/en/environme...
Fossil fuel subsidy reform (FFSR)
MFAT leads New Zealand's effort for eliminating energy subsidies that encourage the consumption of green house gas-producing fossil fuels.
www.mfat.govt.nz
February 12, 2026 at 8:41 PM
Our government wont allow serious investment into renewables in NZ because our government own 51% of the gentailers making 93% margins on selling is the most expensive power they can possibly generate
They get paid by the highest cost KWH they generate on all their capacity
Our market is broken
They get paid by the highest cost KWH they generate on all their capacity
Our market is broken
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This is why, when in opposition, the national party put so much energy into baseless accusations and dirt digging about back handers. *they always do it when they are in power*
Stop listening to the noise and watch the actions. They are corrupt
Stop listening to the noise and watch the actions. They are corrupt
There’s the shonky process & I’d thought her short tenure as Leader of the National Party should have disqualified her from the post. Petty, vindictive, sneery & openly manipulative. It was a trainwreck and I think the Law Commission and NZ should be concerned. #nzpol www.rnz.co.nz/news/politic...
'Nakedly political': No rivals considered for Judith Collins' new job
The outgoing minister was the only person considered for Law Commission president - with no recruitment process and no other candidates.
www.rnz.co.nz
February 12, 2026 at 9:13 PM
This is why, when in opposition, the national party put so much energy into baseless accusations and dirt digging about back handers. *they always do it when they are in power*
Stop listening to the noise and watch the actions. They are corrupt
Stop listening to the noise and watch the actions. They are corrupt
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Paul Goldsmith does it again. Putting National people in positions of power to control issues when National isn’t in government. Same playbook from overseas. God this Government Coalition can’t be trusted
February 12, 2026 at 10:18 PM
Paul Goldsmith does it again. Putting National people in positions of power to control issues when National isn’t in government. Same playbook from overseas. God this Government Coalition can’t be trusted
Petty politicians sitting in government. They're just pathetic at this point. Laughable. Every ignorant, backward decision today is repealed tomorrow. Environment, education, employment, society, taxes. Gone! Vote.them.out.
www.nzherald.co.nz/nz/politics/...
www.nzherald.co.nz/nz/politics/...
'Racist' and 'pathetic': Backlash as Govt drops te reo from school lunch scheme name
The programme was formerly called Ka Ora, Ka Ako Healthy School Lunches.
www.nzherald.co.nz
February 12, 2026 at 5:23 PM
Petty politicians sitting in government. They're just pathetic at this point. Laughable. Every ignorant, backward decision today is repealed tomorrow. Environment, education, employment, society, taxes. Gone! Vote.them.out.
www.nzherald.co.nz/nz/politics/...
www.nzherald.co.nz/nz/politics/...
Fucking predictable Peters creating headlines going into election. Maybe a Greens and Labour won't need his party to form a coalition. I fucking hate him.
www.stuff.co.nz/politics/360...
www.stuff.co.nz/politics/360...
NZ First ‘rage-baiting’ with campaign for referendum on Māori seats, Te Pāti Māori says
The Green Party is moving in the opposite direction, calling for the seats to be protected.
www.stuff.co.nz
February 12, 2026 at 4:17 AM
Fucking predictable Peters creating headlines going into election. Maybe a Greens and Labour won't need his party to form a coalition. I fucking hate him.
www.stuff.co.nz/politics/360...
www.stuff.co.nz/politics/360...
These fukn ghouls in Aotearoa parliament. There's no democracy. Let's have a Royal Commission on their lobbyists, their complicity to genocide, human rights, personal profits from policy variations and their close personal relationships with the Trump administration? Vote.them.out!
UNBELIEVABLE! 🤯
Luxon’s idiotic fossil gas terminal will bypass even the fast-track process so that construction can start before the election.
Let that sink in.
Luxon’s idiotic fossil gas terminal will bypass even the fast-track process so that construction can start before the election.
Let that sink in.
February 12, 2026 at 3:25 AM
These fukn ghouls in Aotearoa parliament. There's no democracy. Let's have a Royal Commission on their lobbyists, their complicity to genocide, human rights, personal profits from policy variations and their close personal relationships with the Trump administration? Vote.them.out!
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Describe your BlueSky account in three words:
Sport
Music
The systematic overthrowing capitalism by belittling the beige foot soldiers of the bourgeois nightmare & their champagne-swilling overlords, rising from our damp bedsits to overthrow the neoliberal orthodoxy!
Sport
Music
The systematic overthrowing capitalism by belittling the beige foot soldiers of the bourgeois nightmare & their champagne-swilling overlords, rising from our damp bedsits to overthrow the neoliberal orthodoxy!
Describe your BlueSky account in three words:
Food
Dogs
Autism
Food
Dogs
Autism
Describe your BlueSky account in three words:
Cheesy movies & space
Cheesy movies & space
February 12, 2026 at 2:47 AM
Describe your BlueSky account in three words:
Sport
Music
The systematic overthrowing capitalism by belittling the beige foot soldiers of the bourgeois nightmare & their champagne-swilling overlords, rising from our damp bedsits to overthrow the neoliberal orthodoxy!
Sport
Music
The systematic overthrowing capitalism by belittling the beige foot soldiers of the bourgeois nightmare & their champagne-swilling overlords, rising from our damp bedsits to overthrow the neoliberal orthodoxy!
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It's disgusting and vile that pundits and politicians are using the mass slaughter of children to attack LGBTQ+ people.
The majority of mass shooters are cis white men but there's no talk of the epidemic of cis male violence
The majority of mass shooters are cis white men but there's no talk of the epidemic of cis male violence
February 11, 2026 at 11:56 PM
It's disgusting and vile that pundits and politicians are using the mass slaughter of children to attack LGBTQ+ people.
The majority of mass shooters are cis white men but there's no talk of the epidemic of cis male violence
The majority of mass shooters are cis white men but there's no talk of the epidemic of cis male violence
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The adage “all models are wrong but some are useful” is generally supposed to mean that some models help you understand specific aspects of a problem. Of course, it could also mean that some models help justify decisions you’ve already made.
"There's a reason they didn't release the modeling yesterday with all the other papers." - Megan Woods #NzPol
Finance Minister promises to release data showing gas plan will lower power bills
The government is pushing ahead with plans to build a $1b gas import facility, funded by a levy.
www.rnz.co.nz
February 10, 2026 at 11:44 PM
The adage “all models are wrong but some are useful” is generally supposed to mean that some models help you understand specific aspects of a problem. Of course, it could also mean that some models help justify decisions you’ve already made.
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February 12, 2026 at 1:03 AM
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Iran didn't rape our children.
China didn't rape our children.
Russia didn't rape our children.
Venezuela didn't rape our children.
Apartheid Israel orchestrated and paid for the rape of American children.
And they are still using that blackmail on our spineless U.S. Politicians.
China didn't rape our children.
Russia didn't rape our children.
Venezuela didn't rape our children.
Apartheid Israel orchestrated and paid for the rape of American children.
And they are still using that blackmail on our spineless U.S. Politicians.
February 12, 2026 at 1:38 AM
Iran didn't rape our children.
China didn't rape our children.
Russia didn't rape our children.
Venezuela didn't rape our children.
Apartheid Israel orchestrated and paid for the rape of American children.
And they are still using that blackmail on our spineless U.S. Politicians.
China didn't rape our children.
Russia didn't rape our children.
Venezuela didn't rape our children.
Apartheid Israel orchestrated and paid for the rape of American children.
And they are still using that blackmail on our spineless U.S. Politicians.
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If the Labour Party had tried to do anything even remotely like this every news editor would be labeling it as undemocratic and demanding an early election #nzpol
UNBELIEVABLE! 🤯
Luxon’s idiotic fossil gas terminal will bypass even the fast-track process so that construction can start before the election.
Let that sink in.
Luxon’s idiotic fossil gas terminal will bypass even the fast-track process so that construction can start before the election.
Let that sink in.
February 12, 2026 at 1:38 AM
If the Labour Party had tried to do anything even remotely like this every news editor would be labeling it as undemocratic and demanding an early election #nzpol
I support the judge and the dr. Both qualified to speak on the people's behalf. NZ1 are a bunch of corrupt grifters who work in parliament to fluff up their snowflake egos for fame. Offensive to everyone and offended by everything.
www.nzherald.co.nz/nz/auckland/...
www.nzherald.co.nz/nz/auckland/...
'I could smell alcohol': Govt minister gives evidence at judge's conduct hearing about celebrity doctor
“He said, ‘You are despicable, I hope you are ashamed of yourself.”
www.nzherald.co.nz
February 12, 2026 at 1:39 AM
I support the judge and the dr. Both qualified to speak on the people's behalf. NZ1 are a bunch of corrupt grifters who work in parliament to fluff up their snowflake egos for fame. Offensive to everyone and offended by everything.
www.nzherald.co.nz/nz/auckland/...
www.nzherald.co.nz/nz/auckland/...
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Excess capacity? The excess capacity generated by 140,000+ people on the dole, the 400,000 people on a main benefit, the 3,000 businesses that have gone bust, and the 170,000 people that have fled the country? That excess capacity?
February 11, 2026 at 1:53 AM
Excess capacity? The excess capacity generated by 140,000+ people on the dole, the 400,000 people on a main benefit, the 3,000 businesses that have gone bust, and the 170,000 people that have fled the country? That excess capacity?
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Government must be feeling under pressure - the rolled out a surprise covid related inquiry. It’s like they use the Covid response as an excuse every chance they get to deflect from being really awful at what they do knowing at plays well with the coalition supporters.
February 11, 2026 at 1:23 AM
Government must be feeling under pressure - the rolled out a surprise covid related inquiry. It’s like they use the Covid response as an excuse every chance they get to deflect from being really awful at what they do knowing at plays well with the coalition supporters.
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Another 12 banks have pledged not to provide financing for a proposed $15 billion liquefied natural gas project in Papua New Guinea, in which Australia's #Santos is a major investor.
@canberratimes.bsky.social #climate #energy #banks
@canberratimes.bsky.social #climate #energy #banks
More banks give $15b PNG gas project the cold shoulder
A total of 27 banks and credit agencies have committed not to provide financing for a proposed TotalEnergies-Santos...
www.canberratimes.com.au
February 10, 2026 at 11:57 PM
Another 12 banks have pledged not to provide financing for a proposed $15 billion liquefied natural gas project in Papua New Guinea, in which Australia's #Santos is a major investor.
@canberratimes.bsky.social #climate #energy #banks
@canberratimes.bsky.social #climate #energy #banks
CoC heads pull a surprise inquiry over Reserve Bank printing money over covid? More retro investigating every time they pull some new BS policy to distract us. CoC's LNG levy is in fact a Methane tax that supports the US pedo ring of policies. Vote the Americans out of Aotearoa politics.
Also going well for this miserable excuse of a govt on social media... www.nzherald.co.nz/nz/politics/...
Govt instigates surprise inquiry into Reserve Bank’s $55b Covid money-printing
Finance Minister Nicola Willis has announced a surprise review of Reserve Bank actions.
www.nzherald.co.nz
February 11, 2026 at 1:29 AM
CoC heads pull a surprise inquiry over Reserve Bank printing money over covid? More retro investigating every time they pull some new BS policy to distract us. CoC's LNG levy is in fact a Methane tax that supports the US pedo ring of policies. Vote the Americans out of Aotearoa politics.
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Winsto complaining about "pinko communist" "anti-americans" in #nzqt . Like its 1984 or something.
And if people aren't opposed to the present US government, there is something fucking wrong with them.
And if people aren't opposed to the present US government, there is something fucking wrong with them.
February 11, 2026 at 1:06 AM
Winsto complaining about "pinko communist" "anti-americans" in #nzqt . Like its 1984 or something.
And if people aren't opposed to the present US government, there is something fucking wrong with them.
And if people aren't opposed to the present US government, there is something fucking wrong with them.
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Luxon, having repealed all climate change policy, now wants a "bipartisan" approach.
Fuck that and fuck him. He's shown he can't be trusted. #nzqt
Fuck that and fuck him. He's shown he can't be trusted. #nzqt
February 11, 2026 at 1:13 AM
Luxon, having repealed all climate change policy, now wants a "bipartisan" approach.
Fuck that and fuck him. He's shown he can't be trusted. #nzqt
Fuck that and fuck him. He's shown he can't be trusted. #nzqt
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“If all the names in the Epstein files are released then our entire system will collapse.”
Works for me.
Works for me.
February 10, 2026 at 7:54 PM
“If all the names in the Epstein files are released then our entire system will collapse.”
Works for me.
Works for me.
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The party of free trade are going to screw up our free trade agreements
The UK Govt has raised concerns over New Zealand's climate action rollbacks, following the weakening of our methane target last year.
This could have major implications for our trade agreements dependent on climate ambition. #nzpol #climate
www.stuff.co.nz/politics/360...
This could have major implications for our trade agreements dependent on climate ambition. #nzpol #climate
www.stuff.co.nz/politics/360...
Explain your climate policies to us, UK ministers asked NZ counterparts
New Zealand’s trade minister initially downplayed global interest in New Zealand’s new climate policies.
www.stuff.co.nz
February 11, 2026 at 12:56 AM
The party of free trade are going to screw up our free trade agreements