The Bulletin: Grappling with climate action costs

Good morning, and welcome to The Bulletin. In today’s edition: Stories show complex costs of climate action, Simon Bridges attacks Housing NZ evictees, and Auckland wharfies are raising safety concerns. A range of stories have come out in the past few days and weeks that illustrate how complex the economic costs of fighting climate change … Read more

NZ makes its own oil. So why are we paralysed when a pipeline breaks?

A digger hit our pipeline! But don’t panic – we produce more than 40 million barrels of oil each year. Problem is, most of it is exported. Rebecca Stevenson finds out why. In the nineteenth century oil prospectors would sniff and taste the crude oil they found. If it tasted sweet it was the good … Read more