The New Zealand government plans to build an LNG import facility in Taranaki to ensure energy security during supply shortages, but critics warn it may lock the country into costly fossil fuel infrastructure and delay the shift to renewable energy.
How the framings classify across 4 articles. Each framing is labelled by a small AI stance classifier; see the methodology page for details.
Stacked weekly counts; colour by lean. “n/a” covers government and iwi-Māori sources where lean isn't applicable.
How this topic has been named, week by week. A new alias winning out is usually a framing shift.
How the news corpus has covered this same topic over the last 12 weeks. 17 articles from RNZ, Stuff, NZ Herald, ODT, 1News, Newsroom and The Spinoff. Click through to the press view for the full panel.
Verbatim segments from politicians speaking on podcasts and radio shows about this topic. Sourced via the voice-reference library — each speaker has been confirmed manually from their voice clip. Click play to stream the original audio from the publisher, pre-seeked to the moment the quote starts.
Well, I think um yeah, it's clear that we need real um real incentives to to properly react. The thing about the the energy markets is that the incentive is to only provide exactly how much that you you need. And if you provide um, so that puts it right on a nice edge, but but this is saying, well, actually, you know, if you get that wrong, there's a ten million dollar um hit. And I I think that's that's logical and it's gonna change the dynamics about how they consider this.
Up to 12 framings spread across orientations. Each framing is a short phrase the topic extractor generated to characterise the piece's stance — not a quote from the source. Click through to read the original.
geopolitical shocks disrupting global supply chains
Alan Bollard on the changing rules of global tradedry years trigger spikes in wholesale prices and economic damage
\\ \\ **New gas data supports action to keep lights on**\\ \\ 14 May, 2026\\ \\ Simeon BrownSocial-media signal on the same topic, drawn from the social lens. Engagement is likes + 2×shares + 3×replies, the same weighting used across the digest cards. View on /social →
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