Wednesday, 23 December 2020, 10:22 am Opinion: Molly Melhuish
New Zealand’s electricity market is broken. Its
regulator chose Christmas week to reveal it will consult
further on whether to slap Meridian with a wet bus
ticket.
At the same time, the industry’s plan for a
return to growth, funded by a $2/day tax on residential
consumers, will go to Parliament in the new government’s
first 100 days.
Meanwhile, some of the world’s
richest cities will spend Christmas in lockdown. What’s
happening?
World: “There´s no way we can
shut everything down in order to lower emissions, slow
climate change and protect the
environment.“
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