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Together, we can protect this ecosystem for generations to come.

Conservation worker Sarah has beautifully illustrated the unique species that call the Denniston Plateau home – from the great spotted kiwi to the Powelliphanta snail. Each tea towel is a conversation starter about protecting this precious ecosystem from the proposed Bathurst Resources mega-mine.

Let's remember - the government spends more cleaning up coal damage than it collects in meagre royalties.

Join the movement:
350.org.nz/coal

There’s still one force that can stop this in its tracks: the people of Aotearoa.

Today, we’re launching a pledge where New Zealanders across Aotearoa can declare - loudly and clearly - that we oppose any new offshore drilling
We'd love it if you signed the new pledge!

act.350.org/sign/oppose-...

Normally, this kind of project would be so unprofitable no company would touch it.

But this Government has added one crucial ingredient: $200 million in fossil fuel subsidies. Suddenly, uneconomic, climate-wrecking projects become tempting for foreign corporates.

But subsidies aren’t everything.

There’s barely any gas left in the Taranaki Basin; New Zealand hasn’t found new gas in a new place in over twenty years. Even if they somehow found gas, it wouldn’t come online for more than a decade and would be wildly expensive and risky.

Australian-owned ‘EnZed’ Energy has formally applied for a giant offshore oil and gas permit — right in the middle of a marine mammal sanctuary. Seismic blasting there is illegal, which means the Government may need to rewrite the law (again) just to let fossil fuels in the door.

And for what?

Solar + batteries = win!

Gas-free future, nice! 🔋 Great choice for climate and wallet!

Cabinet decides in DECEMBER whether to proceed with LNG.
This deeply reported piece by Kirsty Johnston is essential reading on what's at stake - for climate, for costs, for our energy sovereignty.
We're at a crossroads. Which future do we choose?

As 350 Aotearoa's Alva Feldmeier says: "importing gas is like giving an addict just enough to keep them hooked. You keep the country dependent for a bit longer - making it harder to quit - rather than supporting the transition we need to make now."

The alternatives exist NOW:

⚡️Accelerate wind, solar, geothermal
⚡️Grid-scale batteries for peaks
⚡️Heat pumps (could save 40% of current gas use + $1.5b/year for households)
⚡️Strategic use of hydro storage
⚡️Demand response programs

Consumer Powerswitch: "It doesn't make logical sense that you would buy expensive fuel when you have free fuel here.

LNG electricity will cost $200-400/MWh
Wind/solar costs ~$135/MWh
Plus terminal costs of $140-295m for even small-scale operations.

The context: NZ already generates 80%+ of electricity from renewables. Wind and solar are now our CHEAPEST new generation options.
We were so close to a low-cost, clean energy future. Instead, policy is locking us into fossil fuel dependence.

What got scrapped in the past 2 years?
❌ NZ Battery Project (pumped hydro + alternatives)
❌ Gas Transition Plan
❌ GIDI Fund (industrial electrification)
❌ Offshore wind (stalled twice)
Each decision narrowed our options. Then the crisis hit.

The govt's own Electricity Market Review warned LNG should only be a "last resort" - it's expensive, exposes us to global price shocks, and makes exporters less competitive.
Yet here we are, fast-tracking LNG terminals while cancelling renewable alternatives.

On the same day these annoucements were revealed (disguised as 'supermarket changes') - the government has also announced diastrous changes to NZ's climate laws. We'll be responding to those soon - this govt is hitting us hard and fast with destructive policy - and hoping it will go unnoticed.