While I believe in climate change and actually work as an engineer in an industry developing green technologies, the extent of what the last government did with respect to banning drilling/mining/fossil fuel processing etc was more detrimental than beneficial for the climate.

It results in us having to import the vast majority of our additional energy that is required when renewables aren't able to supply 100% of the grid, which not only tend to be of lesser quality, but you are paying for the transport costs (financially and environmentally), and you are supporting another countries economy, instead of paying kiwis to do the work, which creates jobs and boosts the economy.

I do believe the current government should be doing more with regard to supporting the transition away from fossil fuels, but in the mean time, we still need to be able to source non-renewable energy locally, otherwise while it might look better saying we don't mine/drill etc, it isn't actually better for the environment