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The Parliamentary Commissioner for the Environment will
be recommending a tougher regulatory regime for fracking when she
delivers her final recommendations to Parliament next
year.
This is clear from her
interim report, released on Tuesday, which concluded that:
- the risks associated with fracking can be managed effectively
by the implementation of operational best practice, enforced
through government regulation, but
- the current New Zealand framework is fragmented and may not be
adequate to the task.
Although the report did not deliver formal recommendations, it
outlined seven interim findings relating to the environmental risks
of oil and gas production and to regulatory oversight. Crucially,
the Commissioner states that a moratorium on fracking is not
presently justified.
