The country's 67 local bodies will become four amalgamated water entities, that will be community-owned and new regulation will control pricing and quality of drinking, waste and stormwater services.
Transpower is trying to work out how and when to replace or even upgrade the Cook Strait -cable in a rapidly-changing energy environment.
If the purpose of replacement law for the RMA is unclear, the resulting outcomes cannot be expected to be any better than the regime it replaces.
Lodestone Energy's solar plant in Kaitaia will have up to 80,000 panels and will take advantage of grass underneath the panels to boost reflection from the sun.
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