66120 (2024). Steve Abel to the Minister for Resources

Written Question

Published date: 22 Oct 2024

Metadata

Document type:	Written Question
Parliament number:	54
Question number:	66120 (2024)
Question asked:	06 Oct 2024
Member asking:	Steve Abel
Portfolio:	Minister for Resources
Minister replying:	Hon Shane Jones
Answer received:	16 Oct 2024
Status:	Question Answered
Reply type:	Reply
Document ID:	WQ_66120_2024
Document guid:	e38fde0c-ecaf-4df3-9d8c-425b61ba7a61

66120 (2024). Steve Abel to the Minister for Resources: What percentage of coal mined in New Zealand, if any, is exported offshore over the past 5 years, listed year on year?

Hon Shane Jones: MBIE publishes quarterly and annual statistics on coal production, imports, exports and use here https://www.mbie.govt.nz/assets/Data-Files/Energy/nz-energy-quarterly-and-energy-in-nz/Coal.xlsx. The percentage of coal mined in New Zealand, and exported offshore in the past five years, is set out in the table below. Year NZ Production (t) Exports (t) Percentage of NZ coal exported 2023 2,600,084 1,224,197 47.1 2022 2,637,476 1,277,969 48.5 2021 2,867,610 1,244,368 43.4 2020 2,818,682 1,140,331 40.5 2019 3,033,983 1,449,758 47.8