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Friday, 2 July 2021, 11:17 am
An independent researcher says revelations of
ExxonMobil’s secret lobbying campaign against US
government climate change policies are not unique to the oil
giant nor are they restricted to the US.
Economic
anthropologist Dr Terrence Loomis, who has been studying the
New Zealand petroleum industry for over a decade, says the
industry and its trade association PEPANZ have been carrying
out a concerted lobbying and public relations campaign for
years to challenge legislation and regulations that threaten
the industry and to slow the country’s transition away
from fossil fuels.
According to Dr Loomis, for several
years PEPANZ (who recently rebranded themselves Energy