{"id":70511,"date":"2025-05-22T16:06:33","date_gmt":"2025-05-22T04:06:33","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.greenpeace.org\/aotearoa\/?p=70511"},"modified":"2025-05-22T16:06:40","modified_gmt":"2025-05-22T04:06:40","slug":"scorched-earth-budget-tax-cuts-for-polluters-and-investing-in-fossil-fuels","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.greenpeace.org\/aotearoa\/press-release\/scorched-earth-budget-tax-cuts-for-polluters-and-investing-in-fossil-fuels\/","title":{"rendered":"Scorched Earth Budget &#8211; tax cuts for polluters and investing in fossil fuels"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>Greenpeace Aotearoa is condemning the Government\u2019s 2025 Budget as a fighting fund for the war on nature, taken from hard-working New Zealanders to funnel towards wannabe seabed miners and oil and gas exploration.<\/p>\n\n<p>As part of Budget 2025, the Government announced over a billion in tax cuts for corporates and a<a href=\"https:\/\/www.beehive.govt.nz\/release\/200m-set-aside-crown-stake-new-gas-fields\"> $200m dollar fund f<\/a>or gas exploration and extraction.<\/p>\n\n<p>\u201cThis is a Scorched Earth Budget delivered in the middle of a climate crisis. The Government should be doubling down on action to cut emissions &#8211; not dumping public money into more fossil fuel extraction.\u201d<\/p>\n\n<p>\u201cLet\u2019s be clear about why they\u2019re slashing equal pay for women and gutting environmental protections &#8211; it\u2019s to fund tax cuts for landlords and big tobacco, and now give handouts to the fossil fuel industry.\u201d<\/p>\n\n<p>Greenpeace warns that \u201cbalancing the books\u201d will only get harder if the Government pushes ahead with the Regulatory Standards Bill and RMA reforms. Both proposals include compensation clauses that could see corporations demand taxpayer handouts whenever new environmental or public health protections are introduced.<\/p>\n\n<p>\u201cIt\u2019s hard to see how any future government is going to afford basic protections for people or nature if polluters can demand payment every time they\u2019re regulated,\u201d says Toop.<\/p>\n\n<p>Greenpeace says this Budget is part of a pattern of slashing money for environmental and climate initiatives. Since taking the reins, the Government has:<\/p>\n\n<ul class=\"wp-block-list\">\n<li>abolished the <a href=\"https:\/\/www.beehive.govt.nz\/release\/government-ends-%E2%80%98ute-tax%E2%80%99\">clean car discount<\/a>;\u00a0\u00a0<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>forced the Ministry for the Environment, the Environmental Protection Agency and the Department of Conservation to<a href=\"https:\/\/www.psa.org.nz\/news-media\/govt-cuts-protections-for-environment-again---one-in-five-roles-axed-at-the-epa\"> cut jobs<\/a>;\u00a0<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>canceled the <a href=\"https:\/\/www.beehive.govt.nz\/release\/government-cancels-auckland-light-rail\">Auckland Light Rail Project<\/a>;<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>cut <a href=\"https:\/\/www.rnz.co.nz\/news\/national\/514258\/young-commuters-feeling-the-pinch-as-government-ends-public-transport-subsidy#:~:text=The%20public%20transport%20subsidy%20will,public%20transport%20free%20or%20cheap\">public transport subsidies <\/a>for young people;<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>and steadfastly refused to put agriculture into the Emissions Trading Scheme.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n\t\t\t<section\n\t\t\tclass=\"boxout post-192 \"\n\t\t\t\n\t\t>\n\t\t\t<a\n\t\t\t\tdata-ga-category=\"Take Action Boxout\"\n\t\t\t\tdata-ga-action=\"Image\"\n\t\t\t\tdata-ga-label=\"n\/a\"\n\t\t\t\tclass=\"cover-card-overlay\"\n\t\t\t\thref=\"https:\/\/www.greenpeace.org\/aotearoa\/act\/donate\/\" \n\t\t\t><\/a>\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<img\n\t\t\t\t\t\tsrc=\"https:\/\/www.greenpeace.org\/static\/planet4-aotearoa-stateless\/2021\/03\/bffe354e-gp04k5b_medium_res_with_credit_line-1024x683.jpg\"\n\t\t\t\t\t\tsrcset=\"https:\/\/www.greenpeace.org\/static\/planet4-aotearoa-stateless\/2021\/03\/bffe354e-gp04k5b_medium_res_with_credit_line-600x400.jpg 600w, https:\/\/www.greenpeace.org\/static\/planet4-aotearoa-stateless\/2021\/03\/bffe354e-gp04k5b_medium_res_with_credit_line-1024x683.jpg 1024w, https:\/\/www.greenpeace.org\/static\/planet4-aotearoa-stateless\/2021\/03\/bffe354e-gp04k5b_medium_res_with_credit_line-768x512.jpg 768w, https:\/\/www.greenpeace.org\/static\/planet4-aotearoa-stateless\/2021\/03\/bffe354e-gp04k5b_medium_res_with_credit_line-510x340.jpg 510w, https:\/\/www.greenpeace.org\/static\/planet4-aotearoa-stateless\/2021\/03\/bffe354e-gp04k5b_medium_res_with_credit_line.jpg 1200w\"\n\t\t\t\t\t\tsizes=\"(min-width: 1000px) 358px, (min-width: 780px) 313px, 88px\"\n\t\t\t\t\t\talt=\"\" title=\"\"\n\t\t\t\t\/>\n            \t\t\t<div class=\"boxout-content\">\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<a\n\t\t\t\t\t\tclass=\"boxout-heading medium\"\n\t\t\t\t\t\tdata-ga-category=\"Take Action Boxout\"\n\t\t\t\t\t\tdata-ga-action=\"Title\"\n\t\t\t\t\t\tdata-ga-label=\"n\/a\"\n\t\t\t\t\t\thref=\"https:\/\/www.greenpeace.org\/aotearoa\/act\/donate\/\"\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\n\t\t\t\t\t>\n\t\t\t\t\t\tDonate\n\t\t\t\t\t<\/a>\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<p class=\"boxout-excerpt\">Donate to Greenpeace today. 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