ENVIRONMENTAL zealots did not disappear when New Zealander voters threw out the radical socialist regime of Jacinda Ardern in favour of the nominally conservative Luxon coalition government six months ago.
These zealots, whose “soft green” supporters include PM Christopher Luxon’s Climate Change Minister Simon Watts, are pushing to depopulate and hand over to green-indigenous control the Kapiti Coast, one of New Zealand’s most picturesque coastal zones on the west coast of the North Island just north of the capital Wellington and city of Porirua.
Being exposed to the prevailing weather from the Tasman Sea, the Kapiti coast can cop some blasts with big seas and heavy rain. However sea walls and other infrastructure have for the past century managed to protect the main trunk railway and State Highway 1 that hugs part of that rugged coast.
But now the environmentalists want to take control of the area by declaring a “managed retreat” process, under which land owners are forced to sell properties because of the alleged effects of climate change on the coast, such as the mythical rising sea level. Should existing sea wall and similar infrastructure fail, the green retreatists won’t fix it. Instead, we the invasive humans must simply “adapt”.
Driving and profiting-from this land grab is the US-based, stock-market listed global consultancy company named Jacobs, that rakes in $16 billion annually by leeching contracts with all levels of government and the corporate sector pretending to offer “advice” on how to deal with alleged environmental problems related to “climate change”.
This business literally cons money off your local and national governments and uses it to write up all sorts of reports telling residents, taxpayers and businesses how they need to respond to “rising sea levels” and engage in this “managed retreat” process – the Agenda 20-30 weasel word term that actually means “get off your land voluntarily or we’ll force you off it”.
The con job is getting your council to declare your area an “adaptation zone”, which actually has no legal force but sets in motion a series of actions that ultimately lead to the local residents being forced off their property because it becomes “uninsurable”.
These corporate leeches work in unison with the insurers who tout the idea that “the climate crisis” and “more extreme weather events” justifies raising insurance on coastal properties and even refusing to insure properties, as has already happened in one case on the Kapiti coast.
But more and more local people are not taking this globalist land grab lying down and are rapidly waking up to the scam being perpetrated under the slogan of “adapting to climate change” as trotted out by a bureaucratic junket called the Coastal Advisory Council.
The spokeswoman for Kapiti CALM (Calm Alarmist Law Madness), Tanya Lees, told the meeting this month that “extreme climate modelling” had been generated by those pushing the narrative and this would produce “unecessary and potentially harmful consequences for our community”.
She said the modelling standards used by the council and the CAC were considered by international experts to be “highly unlikely and implausible” and they could demonstrate that local land had actually been expanding for an estimated 6000 years with accretion and uplift, as opposed to the alleged threat of rising sea levels.
“This is the reality of what we see and we will show you that the money spent on selling this agenda of climate catastrophe is hurting our house values and raising our insurance premiums.”
Ms Lees says the next move is to stop the CAC process and its report it will present to the council in June. The process has already cost the council $4 million. Ms Lees’ group is also asking the district council to revoke its 2019 declaration of a “climate emergency” because of insufficient scientific evidence.
Ms Lees said the council and the CAC had responded by saying such claims were “baseless” and that the end result which they propose, of managed retreat, will only occur if certain signals, triggers and thresholds occur.
“But what they don’t tell you is that the alarmist science that they use in their reports may go on to your LIMS (Land Information Memoranda) and the insurance companies use those LIM reports to assess the danger to your properties, and when the insurers read that alarmist science they will likely withdraw from insuring our homes.”
Ms Lees said the Coastal Advisory Council had already indicated that insurance withdrawal had become a signal for managed retreat “and we at CALM say that is a closed loop”. She said the district council (Kapiti) had in effect engineered a climate emergency to manifest a desired outcome based on a fear of something that is highly improbable.
Local indigenous representatives have also bought into the process and their “reward” will be increasing control over properties based on demands to respect all sorts of indigenous environmental sensitivities.
CALM, after an initial standing-room only meeting in March, managed to get 11,000 leaflets into local letter boxes warning of the activities of CAC and its undemocratic processes, which have restricted formal “community engagement workshops” to a maximum of 60 people. Another group called Coastal Ratepayers United is concentrating on district policy on coastal hazards.
Meanwhile Reality Check Radio host and councillor Jaspreet Boporai, on her Greenwashed show, noted with alarm that the Luxon government had announced plans to run an inquiry into “Climate Adaptation Model for New Zealand”. Submissions close on June 16th.
She said this inquiry process began last year through the NZ Greens leader James Shaw, working in cahoots with the Ardern government. Of the 160 submissions made then 42 were from NGOs – so-called non-government organisations – and a mere 21 from individuals.
Ms Lees said these processes were all based on the premise that the climate change narrative was an “absolute given” that cannot be questioned. She also noted that 48 of those inquiry submissions were from Wellington.
Cr Boporai said the initial inquiry showed all submissions supporting the idea of planned retreat system and even land acquisition powers in the case of “forced retreat”. Others suggested using the term “planned relocation”.
Show co-host Don Nicolson, a farmer from Southland, said it was “vintage Wellington, a machine that thrives on this sort of stuff.” He said said climate change legislators and others were lying to the community at great cost and he wanted them made accountable.
