Wednesday, January 25

Plea for Canterbury fracking moratorium

The Christchurch City Council has called on the Government for a moratorium on hydraulic fracturing in Canterbury.
In a letter this month to Minister of Energy and Resources Phil Heatley, Mayor Bob Parker said the council had resolved to call for a moratorium at a meeting on December 8, after widespread community concerns.
In the Canterbury Basin L&M Energy has applied for two permits for gas extraction at onshore sites in South Canterbury and the Canterbury Plains, with one permit approved. Offshore in the Canterbury Basin, Texas oil giant Anadarko, a part-owner of the well at the centre of the environmentally disastrous oil spill in the Gulf of Mexico, is a 50/50 partner with Origin Energy in two permits to do deepwater drilling searching for oil and gas here. It plans to start drilling in October.
"This resolution follows an earlier decision by the Spreydon-Heathcote Community Board to request the council to call for a moratorium.


Stuff.co.nz

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