Turei tells oily Key, no!

"John Key needs to tell New Zealanders what he discussed with American oil company Anadarko when he met its CEO on Tuesday, said the Green Party today. "If John Key is assisting Anadarko − the oil company that played a part in last year's catastrophic Gulf of Mexico oil spill − to develop deep sea drilling plans in New Zealand, then he needs to come clean," said Green Party Co-leader Metiria Turei. American oil company Anadarko had a 25 percent stake in the Deepwater Horizon rig that exploded and sunk, spilling over 600,000 tonnes of oil into the sea. The Government has granted Anadarko permits to drill exploratory wells in deep water off the coasts of Canterbury and Taranaki, but drilling has not yet begun. "It's madness to allow Anadarko to start a deep water oil drilling program in one of the most important ecological regions on the planet when the company has demonstrated it doesn't know how to plug deep water oil wells if anything goes wrong," said Mrs Turei."

This is part of Metiria's press release message to Key. The remainder will doubtless be on the Green Party website.