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Oil, gas permits exempted from Maui dolphin protections
Near-shore oil and gas permits off the Taranaki coast have been exempted from new restrictions proposed to protect Maui and Hector’s dolphins. The Department of Conservation today announced an extension of marine mammal sanctuaries down the west coast of the North Island and a...
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Back to the drawing board on commercial rent abatement legislation
It's back to the drawing board for the coalition government and those commercial tenants who would have qualified for rent abatement after the government’s commercial rent relief legislation was shelved this week. But the scuttling of the rent abatement bill - after coalition...
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Wholesale power rethink needed - Flick
All electricity retailers should be required to buy their supplies through the spot power market and hedge markets to level an unfair playing field, Flick Electric says. The current market structure, in which generators are able to sell directly to their retail arms under fixe...
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Zoono fights US$390k distributor claim
Hand sanitizer maker Zoono, the covid-19 success story with a market cap of AU$485.93 million, is fighting a US$390,000 claim against its former Chinese distributor. The Auckland company founded by Paul Hyslop has won an early bout in the case, initiated in 2019 by Shanghai-ba...
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