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No legal shield for company directors who say climate change 'doesn't exist'
Finance

No legal shield for company directors who say climate change 'doesn't exist'

Company directors and fund managers who fail to manage investment risks associated with climate change are failing in their legal duties under the Companies Act, according to a legal opinion commissioned by new business lobby group The Aotearoa Circle.Based on the opinion from la...

Pattrick Smellie 31 Oct 2019
Water, methane reforms a $7b hit to economy by 2050: Dairy NZ
Primary Sector

Water, methane reforms a $7b hit to economy by 2050: Dairy NZ

Implementing the government's freshwater clean-up reforms and cutting methane emissions will cost the economy about $7 billion a year by 2050, lobby group DairyNZ says.The government's Essential Freshwater package "could significantly harm New Zealand's dairy sector and the wider...

Pattrick Smellie 30 Oct 2019
OPINION: Smelter review a wake-up call on energy policy
Infrastructure Free

Gavin Evans: OPINION: Smelter review a wake-up call on energy policy

The review of the Tiwai Point smelter should be a rude awakening for policymakers who seem to think New Zealand’s renewable energy bounty is going to give us a free pass in world markets.Politicians from all parties have talked up the prospects of new low-carbon export industries...

Gavin Evans 29 Oct 2019
Fed Farmers dairy chair doesn't supply Fonterra but wants strong cooperative
Primary Sector Free

Fed Farmers dairy chair doesn't supply Fonterra but wants strong cooperative

Federated Farmers' submission on proposed changes to the law governing the dairy sector garnered extra clout among MPs when dairy chairman Chris Lewis outed himself as a non-Fonterra Cooperative Group supplier.National Party MP Amy Adams questioned whether Federated Farmers was j...

Rebecca Howard 25 Oct 2019