ELECTION 2020: NZ First wants exploration acreage protected

ELECTION 2020: NZ First wants exploration acreage protected
Gavin Evans
New Zealand First wants to find a way to halt the slide in the country’s offshore exploration acreage. The party had backed the government’s 2018 ban on new offshore exploration and was not seeking to have new permits issued now, energy and resources spokesperson Fletcher Tabuteau said yesterday. But the rapid roll-off of the existing permits “is not necessarily what we thought we had agreed to,” he told about 120 energy executives and regulators at a pre-election panel discussion yesterday. “Some of these permits have time-out – not b...

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