Greens reject fracking report even though a Green candidate was team leader

NBR (paywall) reports:

Quentin Duthie was project for the team which put together the report on , released by the commissioner on Tuesday.

Mr Duthie was a Green Party candidate in 2005 and 2008 and has also worked as a parliamentary staffer for the party. More recently he has been a conservation advocate for Forest and . …

Mineral industry groups welcomed the report but the Green Party, with MP calling it “half-baked”, condemned it, saying there should be a moratorium on fracking.

just demonstrates that the Greens parliamentary wing are putting politics ahead of the .  They demanded this inquiry, and then rejected out of hand the main conclusion that there is no evidence to justify a moratorium (a term for a ban).

People need to understand that many many people in political life care about the environment and conservation. The Greens political party pushes an extreme version of environmentalism which is basically opposition to any activity that impacts the environment in any way.

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