Gas certainty needed for emission-reduction efforts - Fonterra

Gas certainty needed for emission-reduction efforts - Fonterra
Gavin Evans
By Gavin Evans March 7 (BusinessDesk) -  Dairy processor Fonterra says it needs greater confidence in the cost and availability of future gas supplies if it is going to reduce its coal burn on the North Island. While the company’s near-term focus is on reducing emissions from its coal-fired plants in the South Island, the firm had been looking to gas as a fuel replacement at the three North Island plants that still use coal. Tony Oosten, an energy manager at Fonterra, says the supply interruptions from the Pohokura gas field last year...