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Should Natural Gas Be Used To Power New Zealand ?

Posted by Big Gav on December 9, 2007 - 7:53am in The Oil Drum: Australia/New Zealand
Topic: Demand/Consumption
Tags: electricity, gas, kupe, maui, new zealand, pohokura [list all tags]

Cross posted from Peak Energy.

I seem to have spent half of this week criticising various energy articles in the local media, however there seems to be an endless supply of them coming down the pipeline.

NZ Petroleum Exploration and Production Association executive officer John Pfahlert had an opinion piece in the NZ Herald this week ("Minister out of whack on importance of gas") arguing that New Zealand should be building new gas fired power stations instead of trying to become carbon neutral.

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