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Overseas specialists secured for key gas pipeline work
Coronavirus

Overseas specialists secured for key gas pipeline work

OMV has an international crew in isolation in Auckland so that critical pipeline inspections and maintenance can be completed to ensure gas supplies going into winter.About 80 specialist divers, engineers and crew have been working from the Normand Baltic off the Taranaki coast s...

Gavin Evans 31 Mar 2020
Tiwai shuts one production line to manage virus risk

Tiwai shuts one production line to manage virus risk

The Tiwai Point aluminium smelter, the country’s biggest single-site exporter, is trimming production to better manage health controls at its site near Bluff.The company plans to shut line 4, the smallest of its 'pot lines' this week and reallocate the 35 workers to the smelter’s...

Gavin Evans 31 Mar 2020
South Port cuts guidance on forestry export ban
Primary Sector

South Port cuts guidance on forestry export ban

South Port New Zealand said reduced cargo and increased costs from covid-19 health protocols may mean the company misses the reduced earnings guidance it provided six weeks ago.The operator of the Bluff port last month said June-year profit could fall to between $8.2 million and...

Gavin Evans 30 Mar 2020
GAVIN EVANS: Virus plan must protect economy and lives
Primary Sector

Gavin Evans: GAVIN EVANS: Virus plan must protect economy and lives

The government needs to be honest with the public that this country’s covid-19 response must protect the economy as much as it protect lives.Thousands of people - amidst a national lockdown - continue in work at the country’s farms, dairy plants, meat processors, canneries, orcha...

Gavin Evans 29 Mar 2020


Oliver Lewis
Oliver Lewis

Infrastructure Editor

Oliver Lewis won the local government reporting category at the 2023 Voyager Media Awards. He is part of our investigations unit and also covers infrastructure, housing and employment issues. Formerly with Stuff/The Press, Oliver has also written for the Guardian and North & South. 

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