Rau Paenga rebuffed over repeated Scott Base offers

Rau Paenga rebuffed over repeated Scott Base offers
New Zealand needs to upgrade facilities at Scott Base in Antarctica. (Image: NZME)
Oliver Lewis
Crown infrastructure delivery agency Rau Paenga repeatedly offered to help Antarctica New Zealand with its troubled Scott Base redevelopment project, newly released documents show.BusinessDesk published a story in early November saying Rau Paenga had offered assistance to the Crown entity. At the time, the chair of Antarctica NZ, Leon Grice, said Rau Paenga had emailed in March, but the agency hadn’t yet made delivery decisions about the new base.“The organisation will keep communicating with Rau Paenga but is presently working thro...

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