Archive for June, 2009

Disband The Electricity CEO’s Forum For The Good Of The Market – MEUG

The Major Electricity Users Group is using the Ministerial Review of the electricity market as an opportunity to poke the borax at the electricity …

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Welcome Mat Laid Out For Big Oil Explorers

Top Crown Minerals officials who have toured the world promoting the upcoming new blocks on offer in the deeper water Northland and Raukumara Basins, …

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Pressure Grows For Comprehensive Delay To ETS

With the Select Committee reviewing the Emissions Trading Scheme now running some three months behind schedule, it appears inevitable a significant delay to implementation …

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What Wolak Says On Asset Reallocation

Of the hundreds of pages making up the so-called Wolak Report on the use of market power in the wholesale electricity market, it is …

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“Sorry Story” On RMA Consent Delays

A “sorry story of delay, frustration, and unnecessary costs,” is how Environment Minister Nick Smith describes the outcome for 16,000 homeowners, businesses and farmers, …

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Tradeable Water Rights At Heart Of Water Reform

• Tradeoffs loom as agriculture intensifies.
• More central government control likely.
• Gambling on collaborative approach.
Environment Minister Nick Smith is hanging his hat on a …

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Diverse Winners Of Green Ribbon Awards

Ports of Auckland and Ashburton District Council were among the winners of 2009 Green Ribbon Awards announced by Environment Minister Nick Smith. Ports of …

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Kupe Project Close To Commissioning

The Kupe gas/condensate project construction is nearing completion at its south Taranaki production station, and work on testing the first of many systems involved …

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Brownlee’s Electricity Review Committed To Dramatic Outcome

• Wolak disbelieved but politically potent.
• “Half-measures” deemed insufficient.
• Asset reallocation looking attractive.
Work is proceeding apace on the report for Cabinet from the Ministerial …

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Fonterra Completes Carbon Study

Dairy giant Fonterra has completed an 18 month project which gives a first accurate picture of greenhouse gas emissions from its NZ operations. …

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Huge Waikato River Clean Up Spend Coming

One of the biggest single pieces of new spending in the Environment Vote is the $60m-odd to be pumped into cleaning up the Waikato …

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Wolak Critics Mount

The controversial Commerce Commission report into wholesale electricity market power has drawn surprisingly strong criticism from local analysts. As previously reported in NZ Energy …

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