Keeping Tiwai Point smelter open best for climate change - Contact chair

Keeping Tiwai Point smelter open best for climate change - Contact chair
Pattrick Smellie
Finding a way to keep the Tiwai Point aluminium smelter open is the best result for global greenhouse gas emissions, since its closure would see its production replaced by overseas smelters using natural gas or coal to produce electricity, says Contact Energy chairman Rob McDonald. The smelter's majority owner, Australian mining giant Rio Tinto, has announced it is reviewing the future of the smelter, which uses around 14 percent of total electricity production in New Zealand and has fought since opening in 1971 for substantially discounte...

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