Benoit 🌱

Wellingtonian. All in for a full transition away from fossil fuel. Writer for Inside Wellington. Member of NZ Greens.

[Benoit 🌱 @BenoitPette]

This. Once lockdown is over, please consider ditching combustion engines, switching to EV, PT or AT, and together we’ll create this sustainable, peaceful world we all aspire to.

[Shane Montague 🇮🇪🇳🇿🇪🇺 @MontagueShane]

@nashthomas The number of birds in our garden has increased very noticeably and our Dunedin city center neighbours have also commented on this - from a safe distance 😄
And the quiet from lack of traffic has been a revelation- so less stressful- had not realise how much ambient noise we had

[Benoit 🌱 @BenoitPette]

@GeorgeKCampbell Because with a left city council, a Green regional councillor chair of transport, and two Green MPs, Wellingtonians have clearly showed they want a tunnel with more cars to an expanding airport?

[Benoit 🌱 @BenoitPette]

@RebeccaJEmm Wellington, a city massively left and Green leaning at each administrative level (local, regional and national) ... and an airport expanding, with soon a brand new highway puking its cars through it.

Why still vote really?

[Benoit 🌱 @BenoitPette]

And soon the repeal of the plastic bag ban ...

Why? Because Labour

[Benoit 🌱 @BenoitPette]

12% was the amount of Wellingtonians satisfied with WCC in 2022.
12% is the rate increase Wellingtonians are faced with.

10% is Barbara McKerrow's payrise.

No shade of decency.

[Benoit 🌱 @BenoitPette]

Here is WCC in 2023: Lamps falling from posts, private data leaks, budgets blowouts ... yet not a single apology.

And now this, just when rates are exploding.

An utter disgrace.
https://t.co/Dqv4yQLyOS

[Benoit 🌱 @BenoitPette]

@nashthomas @paulebruce So GWRC and WCC *could* put a lid on airport's carbon emissions? So why you, our Green mayor and two Green MPs haven't done it yet?

So embarrassing really.

[Benoit 🌱 @BenoitPette]

@GeorgeKCampbell @nzherald https://t.co/KvIP2ZLmTN

[Benoit 🌱 @BenoitPette]

"A question for the mayor about expanding the airport"

Tagging @timjonesbooks @BaysGuardians

[Wellington.Scoop @ScoopWellington]

Benoit Pette: A question for the mayor, about expanding the airport https://t.co/OjWEAyyVRy

[Benoit 🌱 @BenoitPette]

@GeorgeKCampbell @nzherald But it's Cassel who cancelled Shelly Bay, not Wellington, or have I missed something?

[Benoit 🌱 @BenoitPette]

Do you think they get the message?

[Wellington.Scoop @ScoopWellington]

Benoit Pette: An epilogue for Shelly Bay https://t.co/iKCDUu3CDY

[Benoit 🌱 @BenoitPette]

@nashthomas What about a strategy to promote actively working from home, reducing transport strain, and allowing offices buildings to be repurposed in homes? What about working actively against the expansion of the airport to *not* create more traffic to it?

[Benoit 🌱 @BenoitPette]

@KatrinaZBWgtn Surely thousands of cars less on the road is a good thing now? Surely there is a new world to invent, less centralised? I say we are not going far enough with working from home, and saving some businesses is not a good enough reason to go back the old ways.

[Benoit 🌱 @BenoitPette]

@ScoopWellington Last time a Green mayor went to Asia with a business delegation, we ended up with Shelly Bay and an airport expansion. Can't wait to see what this one brings.

[Benoit 🌱 @BenoitPette]

@ScoopWellington F..kng the climate with a smile 🤮

[Benoit 🌱 @BenoitPette]

@ScoopWellington Yes, let's progress the expansion, this is the most urgent thing to do right now.

https://t.co/fozkdDWKai

[Kyle Brittain @BadWeatherKyle]

Very serious situation unfolding in West Kelowna #BCfire

[Benoit 🌱 @BenoitPette]

Hi @WgtnCC. Can you please let me know when the 2023 edition of the Residents Monitoring Survey will be released? It was released early June in 2022. Many thanks.

[Benoit 🌱 @BenoitPette]

@Kieran_McAnulty A Kieran loving another Kieran ... really cute 😉

[Benoit 🌱 @BenoitPette]

@WgtnCC Hi. Has the panel any electrification component (e.g. 20% of machinery being used must be electric)?

[Benoit 🌱 @BenoitPette]

Will Wellington's Green mayor even consider such policy? Or will Wellington Region's Green chair of Climate Change committee?