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Dear Colleague,

In your key position you need the best information. That’s why I want to send you a special weekly report. It details dramatic changes in energy and the environment, which apply to businesses of all kinds - yours included.

Each week NZ Energy & Environment Business Week provides you with in-depth news, analysis and opinion on NZ’s rapidly-changing energy and environmental protection sectors. The benefits of subscribing to NZ Energy & Environment Business Week include:

• Keep up to date with the latest developments in Govt energy policy and how these may affect your business in both the long and short term.
• Helping you and other decision-makers in your organisation make more informed decisions about how best to meet your business’s energy requirements as well as finding out about smarter ways to cut emissions and waste streams.
• Keep informed about the latest developments in the electricity generation, distribution and retail sector and how they may affect your energy costs.
• Keep up to date with the latest new technologies, which could give your business a competitivegreen advantage in a world increasingly concerned about climate change and peak oil.

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New Zealand is at a crossroads on key energy and environment issues, which will have a major impact on your business during the next few years. Now, as never before, you need to keep informed about the latest news, inside information and opinion you won’t find anywhere else.

Climate Change Politicians across the spectrum accept man-made global warming is a reality, but the failure of the Copenhagen global climate change summit has created uncertainty both in NZ and abroad about what happens next. We’ll keep you up to date with the science and politics of climate change … and we’ll also keep an open mind to the sceptics.

Mining and Minerals NZ was partly built on gold rushes, but we’ve always seen the country as a pristine paradise. As the John Key govt explores the potential for unleashing NZ’s mineral potential, including potential mining on protected conservation lands, we’ll be there every step of the way, reporting the opportunities, the pros and cons, and the decisions before and after they’re made.

Water It’s the biggest issue on the horizon, maybe even bigger than peak oil. In NZ, years of fruitless wrangling over water allocation are coming to a head. Will our politicians, businesspeople, recreational users and environmentalists be able to find common ground? … We’ll stay across the vital water issue that few are following in such detail…

Oil & Gas Exploration In the post-Maui era, we’re seeing a spurt of new exploration and some gushers that have pushed oil to NZ’s largest export last year. But electricity generators won’t build vital new gas-fired plant unless big gas discoveries are made, and soon. Or might we yet import natural gas as the technologies improve and the price of infrastructure comes down? What about the Great South Basin? Does it really hold untapped reserves of oil and gas that could make New Zealand rich?

Electricity Generation We brought you a week by week account of the political drama and key energy and environmental considerations behind Energy Minister Gerry Brownlee’s electricity reforms. Now that they’re rolling out, we’ll be keeping a close eye on the compromises, the legislation, and the debate that will always rage and asks: “can a competitive electricity market ever work in NZ?”

Renewable Energy The government is committed to promoting renewable energy and there are exciting prospects in geothermal, wind and hydro developments. But public objections to big electricity projects still dog wind and hydro projects. Will the govt’s RMA reforms 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 and our environmental outcomes?

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. Which direction will the government take on coal, and is the writing on the wall for New Zealand’s state-owned coal miner, Solid Energy? Or is there an exciting new future in ‘clean coal and coal-to-liquid-fuel technologies?

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? 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. We’ll stay close to reforms in the science and research sectors, because you need the good oil on the ideas and new analysis coming down the track.

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NZ Energy & Environment Business Week is written and edited by The Main Report and Trans Tasman editorial staff headed by Max Bowden (Editor in Chief). The newsletter’s editor is one of NZ’s most experienced business and political writers Pattrick Smellie, with contributions from Ian Templeton (Parliamentary Correspondent), and Tony Doe (Senior Editor).

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