The Todd Energy site in Taranaki has been New Zealand's only domestic producer of food-grade CO2 since the Marsden Point refinery was decommissioned last year.
Beverage Council spokeswoman Belinda Milnes told RNZ: "Since the closure of Marsden Point, that reduced the supply domestically in New Zealand quite a bit."
I suppose not having a supply would be a "reduced" supply.
National's energy spokesman Stuart Smith believed when the Northland refinery was decommissioned, leaving a sole domestic liquid CO2 supplier at Kapuni, government ministers overestimated Aotearoa's energy resilience.
A rare admission of failure.