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Investors see NZ as too green for coal projects, Bathurst says
By Pattrick Smellie Sept 3 (BusinessDesk) - Resource consents have cost would-be opencast coking coal miner Bathurst Resources $15 million so far, with a month of appeal hearings still to come and the potential for further challenges. Bathurst chief executive Hamish Bohannan re...
State-owned TVNZ pays smaller dividend as international programmes get pricey
By Paul McBeth Sept 3 (BusinessDesk) - State-owned broadcaster Television New Zealand paid a smaller-than-expected dividend to the government as more-expensive foreign programming eroded the company's underlying earnings. The broadcaster paid a dividend of $11.3 million in the...
Greenpeace NZ to appeal 2011 ruling against charity status
By Paul McBeth Sept. 3 (BusinessDesk) - Greenpeace of New Zealand is appealing a High Court ruling last year that blocked its application to register as a charity that it was too political and its protests could land it on the wrong side of the law. The environmental lobby gro...