Andrew Dickens Afternoons

We have a government in power right now who right from the get go have been proud to call themselves transformative.The impression they are trying to give is that they are willing to deliberately change things to make things better; to transform the way we do things for the good.But of course that’s not the way things work.  Any act of transformation will have some aspect of it that will come at a price and some things will take a turn for the worse.  The trick is to balance things and so more is improved by the transformation than is damaged. Transformation runs into the law of unintended consequences and the second law that everything is connected.One of the things this government is most proud of transforming is the oil and gas exploration business in New Zealand.  But the fact is they don’t want to transform it.  They just want to eliminate it which is a different thing.So yesterday I got an email from Greenpeace telling me about something that had not been widely reported.Oil majors Chevron and Equinor h