ANALYSIS: Nats' policy shop - an open back door?
15 Aug 2008
The National Party’s energy policy hits some fairly predictable expected notes – reform the Resource Management Act (RMA), make it easier for new power stations to be built, promote oil and gas exploration, get rid of unnecessary bureaucracy ... but it’s some of the finer detail (and in many cases lack of it) that makes the policy interesting.
With a line designed to strike fear into the heart of many an environmentalist, National Party energy spokesman Gerry Brownlee says that once in government, the National party will review the Crown minerals regime to “examine the appropriate risk reward arrangements needed to fully develop New Zealand’s domestic oil and gas industry.”
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