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		<title>NZ Infrastructure: Top Energy And Environment Infrastructure Issues Identified</title>
		<description><![CDATA[With all the noise recently about the economics of building new electricity generation capacity, the Govt&#8217;s National Infrastructure Plan is notable for saying the biggest immediate priority for energy infrastructure is Transpower&#8217;s grid investment plan. The absence of any serious concern about a shortage of electricity generation capacity boils down to the fact history shows [...]]]></description>
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		<title>NZ Oil Search: US Oil Giant Joins NZ Exploration</title>
		<description><![CDATA[US oil explorer Andarko Petroleum is to take a 50% stake in a joint venture with Origin Energy to explore oil and gas prospects about 65km off the coast of Dunedin. It could contribute around $US30m towards the project. Andarko Petroleum Corporation, listed on the New York Stock Exchange with a market capitalisation of $US36bn, [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://nzenergy-environment.co.nz/home/free-articles/nz-oil-search-us-oil-giant-joins-nz-exploration.html</link>
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		<title>Coal Exploration: Prospects For Southland Lignite Development</title>
		<description><![CDATA[American regulators have approved an experimental North Dakota coal-drying plant which has imported more than 400 tonnes of NZ lignite to test in the hope the same process can be used in Southland. But Solid Energy project manager Greg Visser  says the processing of the coal has been put back to this month or [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://nzenergy-environment.co.nz/home/free-articles/coal-exploration-prospects-for-southland-lignite-development.html</link>
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		<title>Energy Business: Energy Sector SOE Financial Reporting Needs Drastic Improvement</title>
		<description><![CDATA[SOE Minister Simon Power&#8217;s requirement for Govt-owned businesses to start reporting their activities in the same manner as companies listed on the NZX is starting to look like a make-work scheme for investment relations managers. With SOEs dumping out results in the middle of the NZX half-year reporting season, the vast gulf between listed and [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://nzenergy-environment.co.nz/home/free-articles/energy-business-energy-sector-soe-financial-reporting-needs-drastic-improvement.html</link>
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		<title>Consents: New Fines For Slow Consenting Councils</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Local bodies failing to process resource consent applications on time will be slapped with a 25% penalty, ratcheting up at the rate of 5% a week for every week an application remains outstanding, under proposals from Environment Minister Nick Smith. Consultation on the penalties regime is under way now, for implementation on July 1. A [...]]]></description>
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