OraTaiao Convenor Summer Wright and Executive Board Member George Laking
9 June 2026
Climate change is hurting us. Over the last year, a storm hit our communities once every eight days on average, resulting in lost and damaged homes, communities cut off, essential infrastructure broken and the loss of people’s lives.
At the same time, recent reporting revealed two of the country’s biggest climate polluters, Fonterra and Z Energy, had ready access to the Prime Minister’s office to lobby for law changes that would reduce the public’s ability to hold them to account for their harm. The two businesses advocated a law change to effectively ban civil lawsuits against companies for their climate-damaging emissions.
Read the full piece published by The Post here.