Defence Minister Wayne Mapp confirmed yesterday that Whenuapai Air Base in Auckland will remain an operational base for the country's Air Force. $60 million over the next three years has been set aside to upgrade the facility.
I am exceptionally curious to know where this money is coming from. Especially given that Rodney Hide is hopping made over the apparent "tens of thousands of dollars" being spent on ensuring we have safe drinking water (see blog entry for 24 March), and that the $26 million hole left in the Ministry for the Environment (MfE) has been used as a pretext for Nick Smith cutting jobs at MfE, abolishing the Bioethics Council, and doing away with the Govt3 and Carbon Neutral Public Service initiatives (see blog entry for 20 March).
It seems to me that this government has given up on trying to mitigate climate change or protect the environment. It is instead taking the course of 'fortress New Zealand' so that we can fight off the environmental refugees that will be swamping our shores in decades to come.
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