Luxon’s Fossil Fuel Subsidies Risk Breaching UK FTA
Luxon’s Government champions trade and climate credibility overseas, then subsidises gas and LNG at home. The Greens say the hypocrisy may breach our UK trade deal.

Luxon’s Government champions trade and climate credibility overseas, then subsidises gas and LNG at home. The Greens say the hypocrisy may breach our UK trade deal.

New Zealand lectures the world on ending fossil fuel subsidies. Now legal experts warn its own gas and LNG support may breach trade commitments.

New Zealand outsourced fuel security, hollowed out the state, and called it efficiency. Now the free market reality is arriving, and the poor will pay first.

You’re being asked to fund a $2.7B LNG project — but the Government won’t show you the modelling behind it. So what are they hiding?
The Government says LNG must “stack up” — but won’t show the maths. Meanwhile, cheaper renewable options are sitting right there.

From fuel to fisheries to democracy, TOP says New Zealand needs long-term solutions — not short-term fixes.
A proposed $1 billion LNG terminal is being slammed as costly, high-emission and corporate welfare — raising serious questions about NZ’s energy future.

NZGBC research warns LNG imports could cost Kiwis $8.3b and double electricity prices, while rooftop solar and heat pumps offer cheaper, secure energy now.

Climate groups warn the Government’s LNG terminal plan could raise household power bills while delaying New Zealand’s transition to renewable energy.