Greenpeace NZ Petition: No New Offshore Drilling in NZ
Tue 22 Jun 2010: Greenpeace NZ Petition: No New Offshore Drilling in NZ
New Zealand's coastline is too valuable to risk a catastrophe like the BP oil spill currently devastating the Gulf of Mexico. Full petition text:
"To Prime Minister John Key and the New Zealand Government: We call on you to permanently STOP ALL plans to open up New Zealand’s coastal waters to dangerous offshore oil drilling and STOP ANY expansion of coal mining in New Zealand. We demand a clean energy future." Sign the petition
http://action.greenpeace.org.nz/no-new-oil-petition
Yet the New Zealand Government has just permitted dangerous deep sea oil exploration directly off the East Coast of the North Island, and tagged many other areas in New Zealand's waters for further oil exploration.
Like the proposal to open our best conservation land for mining, new oil exploration is a move in the wrong direction for New Zealand.
Expansion of oil and coal extraction threatens our unique environment, the climate and the clean and green reputation that underpins New Zealand's economy. Our Government is struggling to understand the urgent need for a new economic vision.
New Zealand deserves a clean energy vision from our Government. In the Energy [R]evolution report Greenpeace has shown that it can be done.
