Waffle man
OPINION: Prime Minister Christopher Luxon sometimes can't escape his own corporate instinct for evasion, and in what should have been a soft interview with ZB's Mike Hosking, Luxon unnecessarily "made a meal of it", to paraphrase Hosking.
Two pulp mills have closed, and now we have reports that grain growers can't secure contract because it's uncertain there will be enough gas, at the right price, to dry the stuff.
Act's energy spokesman is probably right, saying "The previous Government's kamikaze approach to climate change crashed the reliability of our energy supply", and Jones is justified in his anger too, but blame won't keep industry afloat.
Time for action, and for the Opposition to grow up and join a cross-party accord for the future.
