Govt minerals strategy poses 'significant' risk to security of supply - Enerlytica

Govt minerals strategy poses 'significant' risk to security of supply - Enerlytica
Gavin Evans
By Gavin Evans Sept. 17 (BusinessDesk) - The government’s proposed minerals and petroleum strategy poses a “significant” risk to security of energy and resource supply at a time of physical shortages in the country’s gas market, independent research house Enerlytica says. The narrative of the draft 10-year strategy – intended to guide a review of the Crown Minerals Act - is less a tilting of the legislation’s emphasis away from economic development and more a “jettisoning of it,” the firm says. “The strategy document lacks balance by i...

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