Seymour DavidDAVID SEYMOUR (Leader—ACT): Something I wholeheartedly agree with: that we should all treat each other with the respect of using our names as accurately as possible. For the member who just resumed her seat I think that she actually captured—Angie Warren-Clark: Angie Warren-Clark.DAVID SEYMOUR: I know Angie Warren-Clark but I think she captured something about this bill that in turn captures something about this Government. She drew on the imagery of the Springbok Tour. She talked about New Zealand's declaration of being a nuclear-free country. She has learned the lesson of Jacinda Ardern the woman who became the Prime Minister of New Zealand without changing a single policy and getting a 20-point bump in the polls. She learned the lesson that the way to do politics has nothing to do with the importance of how public policy works or this bill. She learned the lesson that somehow spin and symbolism can overcome substance.The substance of this bill is that it is going to be an environmental economic and procedural disaster with adverse consequences for the country's international reputation for the way that we look after our environment for the way that we become wealthy and invest and for the way that we are seen in this House to respect parliamentary procedure. Let's just tick off the reasons why this bill that is all about symbolism rather than substance will backfire on its stated intentions. It's not going to be good for the environment. It is going to narrow the range of fuel options that New Zealanders have in decades to come. We will have one fewer option. We won't have oil and gas found off the coast of New Zealand because no one will have been able to look for it.So if it just happens to be that these magical new sources of energy peak load electricity generation that doesn't use thermal fuels have not come to pass what will the options be? Well it won't be relatively clean-burning gas off the coast of New Zealand and it won't be relatively clean oil off the coast of New Zealand; it will be doing what Genesis are doing right now: importing 120000 tonnes of coal from Indonesia—hardly a country with the kind of environmental record that we want to be patrons of.So we're going to end up with fewer options and we're going to end up using fuels that are worse for the environment and worse for climate change than the options we would have if people were allowed to look for oil and gas off the coasts of New Zealand on the possibility that it might be the best option for the economy and the environment in the future. By the way if this Government was really serious about climate change here is what they would do: they would ask what carbon price our trading partners are facing and they would say We're going to beat them by 10 percent and if they increase it we'll increase it too." That would actually put a real carbon tax on consuming energy and fuels not just kneecap one industry. What does it do to the economy? What does it do to our international reputation?When people look at New Zealand they used to see a country that followed due process a country that was beyond reproach for corruption and a country where you knew that people would keep their word and your property rights would be safe. Now they look at this Government shaking their heads in astonishment to see a New Zealand Parliament that with a four-week consultation with a bill rammed through this House under extended sittings and with all the urgency in the world but no care can take away years of expectations of investment opportunities can take away the certainty that investors require—and it won't just be oil and gas; it'll be the international business community across a range of sectors looking at New Zealand shaking their heads and wondering why.This is a bill that is underlining and putting on display for everybody to see the politics of symbolism over substance for which this Government will become known. It's bad for the environment it's bad for the economy it's bad procedure for the reputation of this House and it's bad for the whole country's international representation as a safe place to invest but well apparently it is good PR and marketing. I suspect that in the long term the people of New Zealand will conclude differently. I proudly oppose this bill on behalf of the ACT Party."