{"id":38779,"date":"2021-11-10T04:00:16","date_gmt":"2021-11-09T19:00:16","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/world\/2021\/nov\/10\/new-zealand-students-sue-energy-minister-over-oil-and-gas-permits-decision"},"modified":"2021-11-10T04:00:16","modified_gmt":"2021-11-09T19:00:16","slug":"new-zealand-students-sue-energy-minister-over-oil-and-gas-permits-decision","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/?p=38779","title":{"rendered":"New Zealand students sue energy minister over oil and gas permits decision"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Lawsuit is the second major legal challenge to climate policy in New Zealand this year<\/p>\n<p>A group of law students have filed a lawsuit at Wellington\u2019s high court against New Zealand\u2019s minister of energy over her decision to grant two new onshore oil and gas exploration permits just six months after the government <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/world\/2020\/dec\/02\/new-zealand-declares-a-climate-change-emergency\">declared a climate emergency<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cAotearoa New Zealand\u2019s current approach to climate action is embarrassing,\u201d said Phoebe Nikolaou, a member of the Students for Climate Solutions group. \u201cI might be the claimant today as a law student, but I\u2019ll be the lawyer soon, and this will be my life\u2019s work \u2026 Keep fossil fuels in the ground.\u201d<\/p>\n<p> <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/world\/2021\/nov\/10\/new-zealand-students-sue-energy-minister-over-oil-and-gas-permits-decision\">Continue reading&#8230;<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Lawsuit is the second major legal challenge to climate policy in New Zealand this yearA group of law students have filed a lawsuit at Wellington\u2019s high court against New Zealand\u2019s minister of energy over her decision to grant two new onshore oil and ga&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2257,"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":[41,2331,56,42],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-38779","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-asia-pacific","category-climate-crisis","category-new-zealand","category-world-news"],"veu_head_title_object":{"title":"","add_site_title":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/38779","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\/2257"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=38779"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/38779\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":38780,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/38779\/revisions\/38780"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=38779"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=38779"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=38779"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}