Source: Radio New Zealand
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Finance Minister Nicola Willis and Associate Energy Minister Shane Jones are set to explain the triggers that would prompt fuel restrictions, rationing or guidance.
Willis assured voters in her answers to questions in the House on Thursday that “we will not be changing the fuel response overnight”.
She and Jones are due to hold a media conference at midday.
“We will also provide more information about the criteria we will use to assess when a change in the response phase is required,” Willis said.
“This would include changes like the amount of fuel in the country,” she said.
Willis also told MPs in the House that the government’s goal was to “avoid ever getting to response phase three or four”.
“These are envisaged in the national fuel plan as the point at which prioritisation of fuel would be required.
“Our goal is to be doing enough to source the supply of fuel internationally that that does not become necessary, and by taking sufficient actions in response phases one and two, that we wouldn’t reach phase three and four,” she said.
Willis also doesn’t expect the government would need to be “skipping through the response phases” of the alert level framework.
Petrol, diesel, and jet fuel would be able to be treated at different alert levels under the framework.
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