NZ is ridding net zero policies ‘brick by brick' after Jacinda Ardern's ‘crippling' gas decision
Mr Jones claims his party has put around $200 million to 'reinvigorate the gas industry as a repudiation of Jacinda Ardern's industrial crippling decision to cancel the gas industry in New Zealand'.
'We've reinstated a license to re-establish the coal industry in New Zealand,' Mr Jones said.
'We've gone beyond this unicorn-kissing view that only clean green energy will keep the lights on.
'The underlying message in New Zealanders - we're not going to maintain a set of targets or a set of expectations that our economy cannot bear.'
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