Members featured in this Energy NZ special regional focus include: Port Taranaki, Asia-Pacific service consultancy Beca, remote digital video specialists Digital Insight, Precision Helicopters, and cable manufacturer Olex.
Hugh de Lacy discusses sports and exploration with John Bay of L&M Petroleum.
The Biofuel Sales Obligation went down a tortuous path last year before coming into effect in October, just before the elections, only to be euthanized two months later by the new Government, but this hasn’t discouraged biofuel investors.
Finding enough feedstock for large-scale domestic biofuel production was always going to be a tough call for the handful of Kiwi companies investing in this sector.
Energy NZ talks with the minister of energy and resources, Gerry Brownlee over energy matters.
Darryl Thorburn returned to the republic of Afghanistan this year for another ‘tour of duty’, despite the threat of Taliban miltants, kidnappings and suicide bombings.
The National Government, as part of its confidence and supply agreement with the ACT Party, has initiated a review by a special select committee of the Emissions Trading Scheme that was passed into law on September 24, 2008.
The upgrading of Contact Energy’s Otahuhu B Combined Cycle Power Plant in Auckland over the summer holiday period was an international effort.
The courts have recently clarified the question of whether a consenting authority should consider the effects of greenhouse gas discharges on climate change in a non-renewable project, and it is good news for them.
New Zealand businesses are missing out on the chance to invest in their own electricity production and develop internationally competitive companies because of misguided renewable energy policy.
