No Right Turn

Back in 2022, Aotearoa joined the Beyond Oil & Gas Alliance , a group of countries dedicated to fighting climate change by phasing out f...

In 2021, RefiningNZ, the owners of the Marsden Point oil refinery , took a hard look at its future, and decided that it didn't have one....

Aotearoa has long been an opponent of fossil fuel subsidies. In 2010 we joined the Friends of Fossil Fuel Subsidy Reform. In 2015 we review...

The planet is currently burning down around us. So naturally, Shane Jones has decided to grant another fossil fuel exploration permit to mak...

As the climate crisis has worsened, there seems to have finally been an understanding that we need to phase out fossil fuels. Twelve countri...

When the new government promised to allow new offshore oil and gas exploration, they were warned that there would be international criticism...

National is promising to bring back offshore oil and gas drilling. Naturally, the Greens have organised a petition campaign to try and stop ...

Ecuador went to the polls over the weekend in presidential elections , which look like they will go to a right-left runoff. But alongside th...

Last month I noticed that Todd Energy had applied to turn its sole remaining offshore gas exploration permit - which it had sat on for twent...

Offshore gas exploration permit 38602 , held by Todd Energy, was due to expire today, and I was looking forward to announcing its demise. Fi...

The science of climate change is clear: we need to stop burning fossil fuels as quickly as possible, and we cannot burn even a fraction of t...

In 2018 the government banned issuing new offshore oil and gas exploration permits . It was the first baby step towards decarbonisation, ess...

The Economic Development, Science and Innovation Committee has called for submissions on the Crown Minerals Amendment Bill . Submissions ca...

Back in August, the High Court ruled that the Zero Carbon Act isn't worth shit and that the government can continue to approve new foss...

Last month, the National Party announced they would repeal any price on agricultural greenhouse gas emissions , effectively declaring that t...

Floods in Pakistan have killed more than a thousand people this week and displaced 50 million, and put a third of the country underwater . ...

Inflation is through the roof, and "coincidentally" so is oil company profiteering . UN Secretary-General António Guterres calls i...

A ballot for two member's bills was held today, and the following bills were drawn: Housing Infrastructure (GST-sharing) Bill (Brooke...

Last year, the International Energy Agency warned us that the world needed to cease all new fossil fuel development immediately if we wanted...

In 2018, the Labour-led government announced they were banning new offshore gas exploration . The ban was half-hearted at best, and immediat...