Dear Client,

Each week NZ Energy & Environment Business Week provides you with in-depth news, analysis and opinion on NZ’s energy and environmental sectors.

Once a week, read authoritative news and analysis on everything from water allocation policy to renewable energy production, from deep-sea oil and gas prospecting to the emissions trading scheme and new green technologies.

We want to help you understand and profit from these issues.

Our sharp, clearly written analysis and forecasts are packed into four pages. In about 15 minutes reading time each week, you have what you need to make informed, well-reasoned business and investment decisions.

NZ Energy & Environment Business Week concentrates on the news that matters

New Zealand faces huge choices and opportunities in its energy, environmental management, agricultural and resources sectors, which will have a major impact on your business during the next few years.

Climate Change - Ever since the failure of the Copenhagen global climate change talks in 2009, the political consensus on tackling the issues has remained firm, but countries are turning inwards, and few expect a second Commitment Period of the Kyoto Protocol. While NZ has an ETS, the world’s largest carbon emitters and our neighbours Australia remain in limbo.

Mining and Minerals - NZ was partly built on gold rushes, but we’ve always seen the country as a pristine paradise. Now, the riches in the depths of the 200 kilometre Exclusive Economic Zone are becoming commercially attractive and accessible. At the same time, environmentalists worry about the impact of mineral exploitation in our dangerous, deep ocean. Will the country be able to find common ground?

Water - Abundant water remains one of NZ’s greatest blessings, but new rules for its allocation are long overdue and in more and more catchments, dairying, town water supply and other uses are exhausting available supplies, while new users are locked out. Now, at last, there has been an outbreak of consensus on the way forward. We’ll be following the developments, which few are covering in detail.

Oil & Gas Exploration - Two active years of oil and gas exploration failed to find any major new deposits, but NZ remains highly prospective and underexplored, especially offshore. We’ll be watching plans for a string of new exploration in non-traditional basins, the results of efforts to squeeze more from known Taranaki resources, and the activities of NZ explorers both at home and in offshore territories.

Electricity Generation - The Government’s electricity reforms are in place now and a new Electricity Authority is overseeing the market. But will the nirvana of a robustly competitive NZ electricity market ever be achieved? We’ll be following developments closely, and the plans for major new generation investments to meet security of supply.

Renewable Energy - The government’s goal is 90% electricity generation from renewable sources. There are exciting prospects in geothermal, wind and hydro. But public objections to big electricity projects still dog wind and hydro schemes. Will the govt’s RMA reforms and the creation of an Environmental Protection Authority speed up the process for approving renewable schemes, or are we reaching saturation point for windmills and dams in our most unspoilt places?

RMA Reform - Phase one was “the easy part”. Now the govt is embarking on a wide range of further reforms to NZ’s fundamental resource use legislation, including putting in place the country’s all-new Environmental Protection Agency. Will it work? Can it be done on time? Will it make a difference to both our national wealth, our environmental outcomes, and the quality of our towns and cities?

Energy Efficiency - As energy becomes more expensive, energy efficiency is becoming increasingly essential for businesses. Find out about new technologies to cut your energy bills and discover what other organisations are doing to slash their energy consumption and improve their efficiency.

The Future Of Coal - Environmentalists are focusing on coal as a dirty fuel that must be eliminated. But global demand for the high-grade coking coal used in steel mills is rampant, and NZ has much of this high value resource. It also has huge low quality coal reserves that could be used for new industries to make fertiliser and bio-fuels. We’ll be reporting on these contentious areas, and on alert for the lessons that will inevitably be learnt from the inquiry in to the Pike River tragedy.

Bio-Fuels - The government wants 3.4% of New Zealand’s transport fuel to come from bio-fuels by 2012. Can we produce this bio-fuel domestically or will some have to be imported? Are bio-fuels even a good idea? Keep up to date with developments in this exciting and controversial new industry, not just in New Zealand but worldwide.

Science & Innovation - Finding solutions to our future energy and environmental issues will depend on NZ scientists, technologists and corporations working together to create products, services and industries that may not even exist yet.

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If your organisation is involved in, or affected by energy efficiency, renewable energy, water, waste, sanitation, land management, climate change or air quality, you are playing a part in shaping New Zealand’s investment in the future.

Engineers, consultants, insurers, technology providers, scientists, service companies and infrastructure developers all need the latest analysis and interpretation of trends in the energy and environment marketplace. Government departments, local authorities, regional councils, shareholders, accountants, investors, bankers, insurers, legal advisors, exporters and manufacturers are all affected by a broad based market shift towards sustainability.

NZ Energy & Environment Business Week is written and edited in a clear, concise style and focuses specifically on the situations confronting you every day. Advertising is not accepted. Editors have no allegiance to any political party or other outside lobby groups. Their duty is solely to you, the client.

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Sincerely

Max Bowden
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