Eight-year RMA reform saga enters home straight with GM carve-out
By Pattrick Smellie April 4 (BusinessDesk) - The National Party's long-stalled second round of Resource Managment Act reforms returned to Parliament this afternoon, revealing the detail of a final concession to the Maori Party to allow local authorities to declare their region...
'Deeply favourable cocktail' putting Tiwai Pt aluminium smelter in the black
By Pattrick Smellie April 4 (BusinessDesk) - The Rio Tinto-controlled aluminium smelter at Southland's Tiwai Point is benefiting from a "deeply favourable cocktail" of factors that have returned it to profitability and could prompt a restart of its small, fourth production 'po...
Bluescope sweetensTaharoa ironsands mine sale with $51M cash payment
By Pattrick Smellie April 4 (BusinessDesk) - Former timber industry lobbyist-turned-tourism entrepreneur Wayne Coffey will take management control of the Taharoa ironsands mining lease on Maori land near the Glenbrook steel mill following completion of a deal with New Zealand...
Contact fires latest salvo in loyalty schemes war
By Pattrick Smellie April 4 (BusinessDesk) - Contact Energy is beginning the massive task of shifting more than half its customers off the Fly Buys rewards scheme with the enticement of up to 50 cents a litre off fuel bought from BP and Caltex petrol stations by linking electr...
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