Archive for July, 2009

Weldon Tells SOEs Pretend You’re About To Be Sold

NZX CEO Mark Weldon has given SOE directors a strong serve at a Treasury briefing on SOE performance, telling them they should drop their concern for their political masters and start acting as if their businesses will be on the block in the next two to five years. Weldon says “whether or not such an […]

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Inevitable Delay For Stationary Energy ETS Start - Smith

• Jan 2010 timetable “never achievable.”
• Cross-party talks to ease ETS timetable.
• 2020 target consultation starts.
Climate Change Minister Nick Smith’s acknowledgement the Emissions Trading Scheme cannot be implemented by January 1 next year for stationary energy and industrial processes is intended to give certainty to those sectors. But the climb-down demonstrates just how difficult it […]

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