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Windfall profit tax on Gentailers
Everyone has the right to a safe climate, and an affordable, resilient power supply. Yet the Gentailers (Generator-Retailers) are threatening this right, making billions of dollars of dividends for their shareholders through keeping fossil fuel generation on life support, and power prices high. Meanwhile, communities suffer from climate-fuelled storms like Cyclone Gabrielle, without a local energy supply to fall back on.
We need a windfall tax on the Gentailers' excess profits to invest in renewable, distributed energy for all of us.
Read our report: ‘Generating Scarcity’
Together with the New Zealand Council of Trade Union and FIRST Union we launched a groundbreaking report on November 14th 2022. The report reveals how the country’s largest energy companies (gentailers) have distributed billions in excess dividends to shareholders thereby preventing reinvestment in renewables and keeping power prices high.
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Read our blog post highlighting the reports key messages
We call on the Government to apply a windfall profit tax to the Gentailers!
Everyone has the right to a safe climate, and an affordable, resilient power supply. Yet the Gentailers (Generator-Retailers) are threatening this right, making billions of dollars of dividends for their shareholders through keeping fossil fuel generation on life support, and power prices high. Meanwhile, communities suffer from climate-fuelled storms like Cyclone Gabrielle, without a local energy supply to fall back on. We need a windfall tax on the Gentailers' excess profits to invest in renewable, distributed energy for all of us.
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9 May: Three of NZ’s key climate & health advocacy groups - 350 Aotearoa, OraTaiao: NZ Climate and Health Council, and Generation Zero - have come out strongly against a full or partial sale of Auckland Council’s airport shares.
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