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    • Enabling investment in offshore renewable energy discussion document
      • Minister’s foreword
      • Executive summary
      • Chapter 1: Purpose of this consultation
      • Chapter 2: Context
      • Chapter 3: Why does the government need to enable feasibility activity now?
      • Chapter 4: Proposals for managing feasibility activities
      • Chapter 5: Māori involvement in the assessment of feasibility
      • Chapter 6: Considerations for a permitting framework
      • Chapter 7: Information on existing uses, interests, and values
      • Annex 1: Location of interest maps
      • Annex 2: Proposed resource management reforms
      • Annex 3: International models for offshore renewable energy regulation
      • Annex 4: Aotearoa New Zealand’s international obligations
      • Annex 5: Mapping uses, interests, and values

Enabling investment in offshore renewable energy discussion document

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