Archive for April, 2010

NZ Water Policy: Collaboration on Hurunui Irrigation Project Vital For Water Policy

Conservationists and recreational users are staking out the Hurunui River irrigation scheme as a battleground on which the future of the Govt’s collaborative approach …

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Energy Business: NZ Operator For Electricity Hedge Market “Preferable”

Energy Minister Gerry Brownlee says he would be “a bit disappointed” if NZX and the power company owners of the EnergyHedge trading platform for …

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Conservation: Polls Show Mining “Don’t Knows” Have Hurt The Govt

You mightn’t think, looking at the most recent TVNZ polling the Govt has taken any knocks from the mining debate. But unpublished polling seen …

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GM Organisms: Opposition Muted as Genetically Modified Organism Trial Given Approval

What goes around comes around, and last week it was approval from the Environmental Risk Management Authority for trials which will allow genetic modification …

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Oil Exploration: Oil Exploration Activity Rising

Oil and gas exploration is at levels not seen since the 1980s, with around 40 exploration wells to be drilled next summer. Currently, in …

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Electricity Regulation: Tweaking The Electricity Industry Bill – What To Expect

The Finance and Expenditure Select Committee isn’t due to report back to Parliament on the Electricity Industry Bill until 15 June, but the outline …

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Electricity Trading: NZX Struggling To Make Electricity Derivatives Market Work

Efforts by local sharemarket operator, NZX, to establish electricity derivatives trading are foundering on its failure so far to find the backing of a …

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NZ Oil Exploration: Brownlee Touts NZ As Destination For Petroleum Exploration

Energy and Resources Minister Gerry Brownlee will be extending his international contacts in the energy sector at the 12th International Energy Forum in Mexico. …

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Energy Business: Testing Times For Marsden Point Refinery

NZ Refining Co, CEO Ken Rivers says in his 35 years in the oil industry he has not experienced such testing times for the …

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