NZ Greens Launch Petition to Stop Government’s Plan to Overturn Oil, Gas Ban

Published on November 27, 2023

The New Zealand Green Party has started a petition to urge the new right-of-centre government to stop reversing the ban on offshore oil and gas exploration. This comes after the three-party coalition government unveiled a plan to revoke the ban introduced by the former Labour government in 2018 to accelerate New Zealand’s transition to “a carbon-neutral future” in 30 years. While the coalition has not provided specific details about the repeal, it believes the new policy could reduce New Zealand’s reliance on imported coal while ensuring gas can be used as a transition fuel as the country progresses toward net zero in 2050....

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