The Christchurch City Council has called on the Government for a moratorium
on hydraulic fracturing in Canterbury.
In a letter this month to Minister of Energy and Resources Phil Heatley,
Mayor Bob Parker said the council had resolved to call for a moratorium at a
meeting on December 8, after widespread community concerns.
In the Canterbury Basin L&M Energy has applied for two permits for gas
extraction at onshore sites in South Canterbury and the Canterbury Plains, with
one permit approved. Offshore in the Canterbury Basin, Texas oil giant Anadarko,
a part-owner of the well at the centre of the environmentally disastrous oil
spill in the Gulf of Mexico, is a 50/50 partner with Origin Energy in two
permits to do deepwater drilling searching for oil and gas here. It plans to
start drilling in October.
"This resolution follows an earlier decision by the Spreydon-Heathcote
Community Board to request the council to call for a moratorium.
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