{"id":11402,"date":"2019-11-22T20:00:23","date_gmt":"2019-11-22T11:00:23","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/world\/2019\/nov\/22\/why-new-zealands-west-coast-is-pushing-back-against-ardern-climate-laws"},"modified":"2019-11-22T20:00:23","modified_gmt":"2019-11-22T11:00:23","slug":"why-new-zealands-west-coast-is-pushing-back-against-ardern-climate-laws","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/?p=11402","title":{"rendered":"Why New Zealand&#8217;s west coast is pushing back against Ardern climate laws"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The mining and farming region is tired of being the country\u2019s \u2018environmental conscience\u2019 and wants its voice heard<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>We are expanding our coverage of New Zealand. <a href=\"https:\/\/support.theguardian.com\/au\/contribute?acquisitionData=%7B%22componentType%22%3A%22ACQUISITIONS_EDITORIAL_LINK%22%2C%22source%22%3A%22GUARDIAN_WEB%22%2C%22campaignCode%22%3A%22AUS_EDITORIAL%22%2C%22componentId%22%3A%22All-blacks_pool_games%22%2C%22referrerPageviewId%22%3A%22k39i54g25bczbhrigiav%22%2C%22referrerUrl%22%3A%22https%3A%2F%2Fwww.theguardian.com%2Fworld%2F2019%2Fnov%2F19%2Fmerger-between-new-zealand-herald-and-stuff-owners-back-on-the-table%22%7D&amp;INTCMP=AUS_EDITORIAL\">Please help us by supporting our independent journalism<\/a><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>\u201cI love coal.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>It\u2019s not a phrase you might expect to hear from the mouth of an official in New Zealand, where last week both sides of parliament committed to reducing the nation\u2019s carbon emissions to zero by 2050.<\/p>\n<p> <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/world\/2019\/nov\/22\/why-new-zealands-west-coast-is-pushing-back-against-ardern-climate-laws\">Continue reading&#8230;<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The mining and farming region is tired of being the country\u2019s \u2018environmental conscience\u2019 and wants its voice heardWe are expanding our coverage of New Zealand. Please help us by supporting our independent journalism\u201cI love coal.\u201dIt\u2019s not a phrase you m&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":517,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"sns_share_botton_hide":"","vkExUnit_sns_title":"","_vk_print_noindex":"","sitemap_hide":"","_veu_custom_css":"","veu_display_promotion_alert":"","vkexunit_cta_each_option":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[41,65,268,56],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-11402","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-asia-pacific","category-environment","category-jacinda-ardern","category-new-zealand"],"veu_head_title_object":{"title":"","add_site_title":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11402","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/517"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=11402"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11402\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":11403,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11402\/revisions\/11403"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=11402"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=11402"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=11402"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}