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Lpg Terminal Cancellation

9 items · 5 aliases · peaked week of 5 Apr 2026 · first seen 28 Apr 2026

A critical commentary questioning the government's LNG terminal plan in Taranaki, arguing it is economically flawed, politically influenced, and dangerously dependent on volatile global fuel markets, while proposing a more sustainable and cost-effective alternative through energy

Stance breakdown Methodology →

How the framings classify across 4 articles. Each framing is labelled by a small AI stance classifier; see the methodology page for details.

25%
75%
Supportive 1 Critical 3

Volume by source orientation Methodology →

Stacked weekly counts; colour by lean. “n/a” covers government and iwi-Māori sources where lean isn't applicable.

Alias drift

How this topic has been named, week by week. A new alias winning out is usually a framing shift.

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In the press Methodology →

How the news corpus has covered this same topic over the last 12 weeks. 2 articles from RNZ, Stuff, NZ Herald, ODT, 1News, Newsroom and The Spinoff. Click through to the press view for the full panel.

12-week press volume 2 articles
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Heard on radio

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  • Going to deal with the LNG terminal, this is a rubbish idea, but we'll deal with that after six o'clock and I'll get you the details shortly, right? Right now it is coming up 25 past five. Now, hands up. Who knew that the ANZ Premiership starts tomorrow? This is the netball. Yeah, I'm going to bet not a lot of hands went up, which is a worry because. I guess it's forgivable, given the state of Netball's head office at the moment. It doesn't have a permanent CEO. The chair and a bunch of board members have resigned just recently. So you can forgive them for being a bit too much of a hot mess there to really be able to get the communication strategy working properly. But it's also not forgivable because this is a really pivotal season for Netball. This season has to work. It's not going to work, but it has to at least have the best chance of working. Because professional Netball in this country is fighting for its life. It has no broad. a broadcaster this year, Sky pulled the deal at the end of last year. So netball's now had to pay someone being TVNZ just so TVNZ will put it on TV too, which means there's no money coming in from Sky, which means the players have had to take a 20% pay cut and that's the players who are left playing in the competition. Nine Silver Ferns have already gone over to the Aussie competition where they earn double what they earn here and that will continue to happen unless the local competition can start earning money again to pay them. pay them properly so you can see how important it is that this season starts to get things going in the right direction I feel like the netball bosses are pinning all their hopes on free-to-air TV being the game changer unlike before when you had to pay to watch the netball now you can watch the netball for free you just go to TV2 so you might start loving it again you might start watching it again you might start coming out to the matches and before you know it hey netball's got another deal from Sky TV but will you watch it again will you love it again when nine of the silver silver ferns are already out of the competition meaning it's just not as good as it was last year when you already didn't watch it probably not i would say and the fact that you and i didn't even know that this thing was about to start is probably not a good omen heather
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Sample framings

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greenpeace-nz Centre-left

strong opposition to new fossil fuel import infrastructure

We need solutions not bandaids on the energy crisis
23 Mar

Labour could cancel LNG project on climate grounds

Open Mike 11/06/2026
10 Jun
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