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NZ to be "liberated" from the "burden of bureaucracy" by RMA replacement

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Newstalk ZB,
Publish Date
Wed, 10 Dec 2025, 8:24am
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NZ to be "liberated" from the "burden of bureaucracy" by RMA replacement

Author
Newstalk ZB,
Publish Date
Wed, 10 Dec 2025, 8:24am

A Covid-type outbreak of common sense. 

That's how Contact Energy's describing the Government's Resource Management Act reforms, which will see current rules replaced with two new pieces of legislation.  

One will be for planning, and the other for the environment. 

Contact Energy Chief Executive Mike Fuge told Heather du Plessis-Allan he likes what he sees.  

He says it will liberate the country from the burden of bureaucracy and complication. 

Fuge says the changes should provide much needed pace to infrastructure development. 

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