That is going to require a just transition, and part of the process of a just transition, as well as getting people out of extractive industries and into really productive and sustaining work, is also looking after the environment after those industries have gone and about fixing up the damage that has been done and putting the cost of that where it belongs, with the people who have been making the profits all the way along. This is a pretty important principle for us in the Greens, and it is clear to us that we need a regulatory regime in Aotearoa New Zealand that is based on "polluter pays" so that those who have the benefit from environmentally harmful activities also carry the costs of the associated remediation and clean-up activities. It doesn't feel like a strange idea to me; it just seems pretty basic common sense. It was how I was brought up: if you do the damage, you pay for the damage. 