Oh dear — we all know who’s responsible for this.
from NewstalkZB
A lack of CO2 supply nation-wide has brewers fearful of a beer shortage this summer.
The closure of the Marsden Point refinery at the end of March means the only remaining domestic source of liquid and other food-grade CO2 is Todd Energy’s Kapuni gas field in Taranaki.
Garage Project co-founder Jos Ruffell said the CO2 shortage was crippling the beverage industry.
The brewery is currently operating at 50 per cent capacity and often goes weeks at a time without being able to package beer.
CO2 is used to purge fermenters, move beer from vessel to vessel and to carbonate it.
“It is critical to the production of beer,” Ruffell said.
Since the Northland refinery’s closure, breweries have been reliant on overseas imports of the gas as New Zealand is unable to produce any meaningful quantities domestically.
“We’ve gone from 68 cents a kilogram in April to now over $1.52,” Ruffell said.
As a result, the company was having to “pick and choose” which of its “in-tank” beers to package.
Ruffell said there was a path to sustainability for the industry but only with significant capital investment.
“It’s a difficult combination of events for independent brewers; we are getting squeezed in all areas and we need to get this sorted or it could be very painful for the industry.”
Maybe the brewers can apply to Bill Gates: he’s big on “carbon capture and storage”. https://www.stuff.co.nz/environment/climate-news/300244336/bill-gates-has-a-compelling-plan-for-zero-carbon
I believe that bitumen was a by product from Marsden Point. It makes you wonder if the extremely dangerous state of our roads is a shortage of the stuff to fill in the holes. No doubt MSM is already on to this.
The comic figure in all of this is humanity – we are the carbon the want to dispose of.
No gas for Europe this winter should further their goal.