Watts’s last stand: Simeon Brown takes energy portfolio

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John Carnegie, chief executive of lobby group Energy Resources Aotearoa, led the 'fireside chat' with then- Energy Minister Simon Watts at Downstream.
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John Carnegie, chief executive of lobby group Energy Resources Aotearoa, led the 'fireside chat' with then- Energy Minister Simon Watts at Downstream.

By Pattrick Smellie

Energy Minister Simon Watts has lost the portfolio to Cabinet fixer Simeon Brown in a reshuffle announced by Prime Minister Christopher Luxon this morning.

His demotion comes less than a day after Watts made what can now be seen to have been a defiant last stand appearance at the Downstream energy sector conference in Wellington yesterday.

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