Archive for June, 2009

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 River. The projects were all committed under the last Govt, with spending peaking in the period 2009-2012. A total of $40m represents the Crown’s contribution to the Waikato-Tainui Raupatu […]

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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 & Environment Business Week, the central issue is the value placed on stored water for hydro electricity. The recently released analysis by Stanford University electricity market expert, Professor Frank Wolak, […]

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