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13/06/2013
The potential for oil exploration around New Zealand is barely understood, Texas oil giant Anadarko says.
Its New Zealand corporate affairs manager, Alan Seay, who was in
Blenheim yesterday, said exploration to date "hasn't even scratched the
surface".
The comment came in a private meeting of 80 people in which the
company outlined its controversial plans to explore three areas,
including the Pegasus Basin off the Marlborough and Wairarapa
coastlines.
Anadarko won the rights for oil exploration in New Zealand through the Government's oil and gas exploration tender process.
The plans have triggered fierce opposition in Kaikoura, with about 500 people lining the beachfront last month in protest against deep-sea drilling.
The company was a stakeholder in the Deepwater Horizon oil rig which
exploded, causing an oil spill disaster in the Gulf of Mexico in 2010.
Mr Seay used the Blenheim meeting to tell his audience about the
potential for the petrol production industry in New Zealand....
This is the very active techtonic plate which crosses through New Zealand. Drilling anywhere in New Zealand is not an option.
Drilling anywhere near New Zealand is very dangerous business. Does that mean the petroleum industry has a conscience about the reality of the people of that country?
No.
The petroleum industry understands ONLY ONE THING; that is profits. That industry could not care less about the huge problems they are going to cause the people of New Zealand, their government and the future of their children.
Don't bother appealing to the senses of the people of Texas they don't have control of the industry or the oil tycoon itching for more money in his pocket; the government of New Zealand has stop this. The big yellow spot off the southwest shoreline of the Southern Island on the oil man's map is directly in the path of Christchurch, New Zealand stability.
The people of New Zealand have to oppose this, they do not have a choice.
