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Summing up

The New Zealand public is right to hold the NZ gas and CSG industries to account, to ensure that fracking in New Zealand is done appropriately.

Straterra believes fracking in New Zealand is done properly and carefully because we have strict laws, fracking can be engineered to be safe, and industry goes to every effort to ensure that is the case.

To reinforce the foregoing, the NZ resource sector states that we have nothing to hide, and everything to gain from open dialogue with all interested parties on fracking, and on our activities generally.

Postscript

Some of the opposition to fracking appears to be part of a campaign against all fossil fuel development. We respect freedom of speech and the right of any party to express their view, but note the world we live in is highly dependent on energy, and that fossil fuels are, and for the foreseeable future will continue to be, a large part of the mix.

The oil & gas, and coal industries provide essential services and products to New Zealand (and to the world). For now and the near future, it would be unthinkable for New Zealand to do without oil & gas, or coal. Of course, we must develop these resources in an environmentally-responsible way, and that includes the global response to climate change issues.