Jeanette Fitzsimons: Will the Energy Strategy prevent the building of the three big new fossil-fuelled power stations that are imminent: Contact Energy's ōtāhuhu C, Mighty River Power's Marsden B coal station, and Genesis Energy's gas station in Rodney, which, together with the almost built Huntly ep3 Power Station, total a 25 percent increase in current generation — all of it fossil — and if it will not prevent them, will not the huge increase in fossil fuel generation leave no room for new renewables and take us even further from the Prime Minister's goal of carbon neutrality?
Rt Hon HELEN CLARK: I would not have described any of those three that the member mentioned as imminent.
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