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Ban new gas connections, car imports: Climate Commission
Cooking with gas will start becoming a thing of the past from mid-decade if the Climate Change Commission's advice on how to 'pick up the pace' to meet climate change targets is accepted.
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Infrastructure
Heavy industry's future in a low-carbon NZ: Climate Commission
Energy strategy must include long-term plan for hard-to-decarbonise industries like steel making, cement and lime.
Policy
Cruise industry livid as govt dodges Wiggles 2.0
For the second time in a fortnight, the govt faces embarrassment from over-eager would-be migrant entertainments
Economy
French vessel stranded over visa kerfuffle
The ship departed for New Zealand without having visas for all 90 crew.
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