Oil, Gas, so vital to the future of both New Plymouth and Taranaki, which brings much desired money to the province. Also has its draw backs. Oil and Gas industries has an element of boom and bust periods that can do more harm than good to a communities health. The think big projects of the 80s are a good example of this. Big money transient workers, where most of the profits are diverted out of the area or overseas. They course more pressure on our already overloaded infrastructure, rent hikes, housing shortages and the like. When they go and its usually suddenly the community is left to pick up the pieces. Those on fixed incomes are often hurt tyhe worsed, because of the high inflation these boom bust industries course on the community. Farming our most vital long term primary industry and other Taranaki industries suffer to, because of the high wages these boom bust industries attract, make employment retention for these other industries near impossible, forcing up wages and making them less competitive. Farming is and always will be our long term future not oil and gas. We in Taranaki need to think about this, because I know if I was young man milking cows for minimum wage looking over the fence at the oil and gas industry wages. I would not be milking cows for long. It is keeping those young farmers milking on the land that is our future.
Rusty Kane NP
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