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When the offer goes out, people flock to get their share.
Many have pre-registered their interests to buy
Mighty River Power shares for the future.
But East Coasties are charging up over another asset
after a new study found oil in the region
could be worth billions of dollars and thousands of jobs.
Tina Wickliffe with the week in politics.
Ministers or salesmen?
How about you, will you buy shares?
No, my bank account is like an evaporating puddle.
So Shane Jones can't,
but over 200,000 are charged up.
Next week a petition will be presented to Parliament,
but the boat has definitely sailed.
From power assets to oil.
And it's flowing like honey.
But there's a problem -
much of the black gold is under Maori-owned land.
If oil production is introduced,
the benefits will go to others,
and we will remain poor.
Steven Joyce has this to say to those poor Naatis;
Tina Wickliffe, Te Karere.