27325 (2025). Hon Dr Deborah Russell to the Minister of Climate Change

27325 (2025). Hon Dr Deborah Russell to the Minister of Climate Change: What assumptions, if any, did officials make about the regulatory environment and commercial viability of the Kapuni Carbon Capture project when including it in the Emissions Reduction Plan?

Hon Simon Watts: The Second Emissions Reduction Plan technical annex and Climate Implications of Policy Assessment included scenarios for no uptake, uptake by one operator, and uptake by two or more operators, with a range of assumptions informing each of these scenarios.