POLICY

Greens miss exploration point

IN COMMENTS that suggest New Zealand's Green Party doesn't understand how exploration works, spokesman Gareth Hughes has compared the NZ government as being like a "used car salesman" for offering areas where exploration has so far failed to deliver.

Around 40% of the Key government's 2017 block offer has previously been explored and 97% percent of the area has been offered up before in previous block offers. Under the new block offer system, which...

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