Letters: The ‘shushing’ of Mike Smith over emissions

PremiumLetters to the EditorLettersNZ Herald23 Aug, 2026 05:00 PM4 mins to readThe cooling tower of Ohaaki geothermal power station stands above the surrounding pine forest near Taupō. Photo / Alan Gibson

Go beyond the headlines with our daily news podcast The Front Page:Letter of the week: The ‘shushing’ of Mike Smith

One of the most disappointing moves in Parliament currently is the shushing of Mike Smith, the man wanting to take a lawsuit against Aotearoa’s biggest emitters of greenhouse gases, those fossil fuel outliers, who continue to make financial gain

Letters: The ‘shushing’ of Mike Smith over emissions

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