Analysis: Taranaki is the heart of the country’s energy sector – especially oil and gas. But as energy shapes up to be one of the defining issues of the election, the region is poised to undergo yet another bout of policy whiplash.
In the past eight years, the region has seen new offshore oil and gas exploration banned … and then unbanned. It has received funding for an energy innovation centre … and then seen that centre shut down. A just transitions unit was established to help Taranaki move away from oil and gas … and then it was closed.
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Marc Daalder is a senior political reporter at Newsroom. He covers climate change, health, energy and violent extremism. More by Marc Daalder