........but overseas coal exporters will be delighted, too
The Point of Order team will be keeping an eye on how coal imports are affected by one of the latest Beehive announcements. We share ACT’s belief that global coal exporters will be delighted by the news.
The announcement – from Energy and Resources Minister Megan Woods – is that the government is stalling on the granting of further petroleum exploration permits, beyond the work already underway, until early in the next Parliamentary term.
So what’s the link between this announcement and the graph above, showing a burgeoning of coal imports in recent years.
