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Learning to love Rio Tinto – can it be done?
Environment Analysis

Learning to love Rio Tinto – can it be done?

Rio Tinto has a lifelong history of being unlikeable. Its sudden desire to keep the Tiwai Point aluminium smelter open raises questions not only of electricity price, but of trust.

Pattrick Smellie 10 Feb 2022
'Net zero' chance of hitting emissions targets
Environment Free

'Net zero' chance of hitting emissions targets

Experts are calling into question the Climate Change Commission's transport emission goals, and say there's little chance of hitting them any time soon.

Brent Melville 10 Jan 2022
Wellbeing budgets and the environment: change needed, says Upton
Environment

Wellbeing budgets and the environment: change needed, says Upton

Parliament’s environment commissioner Simon Upton makes four key recommendations that he suggests would make attempts to bring environmental wellbeing into the budget process more likely to succeed.

Pattrick Smellie 15 Dec 2021
Hydrogen plant granted fast track consent despite urea objections
Environment

Hydrogen plant granted fast track consent despite urea objections

Concerns about hydrogen being used to make urea and the visual impact of windfarms do not outweigh the benefits of a Taranaki project, a fast track consent committee ruled.

Ian Llewellyn 03 Dec 2021