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Jen Purdie, Senior Research Fellow, Centre for Sustainability, University of Otago

Importing gas locks NZ into fossil fuels for longer – just as clean energy surges

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The government’s announcement this week that it would move ahead with plans for a new facility to import liquefied natural gas (LNG), potentially as early as next year, was framed as a way to shore up energy security.

But the decision instead marks another major step backwards for domestic efforts to decarbonise.

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