Energy

The New Zealand energy situation is not a healthy one. Maui gas has been wasted, very little has been done to encourage conservation, and our environment is still at risk from new coal generation and mega-transmission lines. Nuclear power is also not an option for this country.

Green Party Co-leader Jeanette Fitzsimons has been at the forefront of campaigning for a sustainable energy future for this country for 30 years, living her message with an off-grid home. In her first term Jeanette introduced the Energy Efficiency and Conservation Bill to Parliament which was finally enacted in May 2000 – the first Green Party Bill to become law. The Greens also negotiated with the Government to add $3 million to the funding of the Energy Efficiency and Conservation Authority (EECA) so they could do more of the tasks that the Bill had spelt out.

In October 2005, as part of the co-operation agreement with the Labour-led Government, Jeanette was appointed the Government spokesperson on Energy Efficiency and is working with ECCA on an Energy Efficiency and Solar Initiative that will

  • significantly reduce the projected $500 million Kyoto deficit by 2008.
  • meet the government's NEECS target of 2% pa improved energy efficiency
  • improve living conditions with warmer, drier homes and solar hot water
  • slow the increase in the cost of oil imports.

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What's New

The Geopolitics of Oil

Cafler Room, Forum North, Rust Ave, Whangarei

Wed, 29 Oct 2008 at 7:30pm
9pm

A public talk by Keith Locke Green MP on the repercussions for New Zealand of the Mid-Eastern oil conflicts.

Grid buyback essential if foreign owners go under

The Green Party is calling on the New Zealand Superannuation Fund to buy back the South Island electricity grid if Wachovia Bank - which effectively owns the grid - collapses as expected.

Kaukapakapa a test for National

Hearings starting next week for a proposed new gas-fired power station in National Leader John Key’s electorate of Helensville are a major test for Mr Key and his party on climate change issues, Greens Co-Leader Russel Norman says.