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Damning MBIE report: Coal imports skyrocket, power prices remain high
MBIE’s latest quarterly energy report, released today, shows electricity prices remain stubbornly high. The report comes amidst a string of manufacturing and mill closures where high energy costs were cited…
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The Cost of the Climate Crisis – Insurance
Government Increases Insurance Costs to Pay for Climate Disasters.
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Why are our power bills so high in NZ?
TLDR: the big four power companies are cooking the books and the climate.
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Power company ‘vampires’ bleed households dry to fund 1.4 billion dollar shareholder payout
Greenpeace is labelling the big four power companies ‘vampires’, for an expected record payout of $1.4 billion to their shareholders. Mercury, Contact and Genesis have already announced an increase to…
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Greenpeace submission on the Government’s draft Fuel Supply Resilience Plan
New Zealand can become energy independent and resilient to global fuel shocks by reducing our reliance on fossil fuels and transitioning our transport network and economy to clean, renewable alternatives.
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Luxon opens the door to billions in taxpayer-funded oil field decommissioning costs
In an act of climate denial, the Luxon Government is today planning to pass legislation to try to restart offshore oil and gas exploration, but they are also slipping in…
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The populists’ war on ‘Woke’ is also a war on nature
New Zealanders recently gave the Luxon-led coalition government a record low rating of 4.2 out of 10 in the latest Ipsos Issues Monitor survey. Even falling concern about price inflation…
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Luxon’s mining obsession drives away second offshore wind investor
Greenpeace is calling on the Government to restore confidence to offshore wind investors by cancelling the fast track process for seabed mining, after it was revealed today that another offshore…
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One Year of Luxon’s War on Nature
There is a three-headed monster hunkered down in the Beehive. It squats on a huge pile of campaign donation gold collected from multinational corporations desperate to mine and destroy the forests, rivers, and mountains of Aotearoa.
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International Energy Agency report damning for Luxon’s plan to repeal oil and gas exploration ban
As floods, fires and storms ravage the world, and climate scientists run out of adjectives to describe how urgent the situation is, we have Christopher Luxon’s Government forging ahead with reckless plans to search for new oil and gas, dig up more coal and shelve every initiative to reduce emissions that they can.
