NZ’s Labour Party aims to restore biofuels mandate

In New Zealand, the Labour Party is pushing for the government to reinstate the biofuel obligation that the party had introduced in 2008 when it was in power that the National party later replaced with a biofuel subsidy—a policy that has allegedly failed—when it came into power. Without a subsidy or an obligation, the Labour Party says the burgeoning biofuels industry has been left without any support to grow or create jobs.