Coal boiler ban and phase out implemented

Coal boiler ban and phase out implemented
New standards for a coal boiler ban have been put in place. (Image: Getty)
Ian Llewellyn
The government is putting in place its commitment to ban new coal boilers and to phase out existing ones by 2037.Energy minister Megan Woods said the new rules would give “councils the muscle to tackle emissions produced by industrial process heat, which currently produce about eight per cent of Aotearoa New Zealand’s greenhouse gas emissions”.Using the Resource Management Act (RMA), the national direction will take effect at the end of the year under the National Policy Statement (NPS) and National Environmental Standards (NE...

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