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Post-covid power sector spending plans 'tone deaf'
The country’s energy industry is “tone-deaf” if its response to covid-19 and the loss of the Tiwai Point aluminium smelter is to consider building new capacity when many households can’t afford their electricity now, First Gas chief executive Paul Goodeve says. The industry ha...
Opinion
Gavin Evans: GAVIN EVANS: 100% Renewable - a $4b brand
If a country is benchmarking itself against Costa Rica, Iceland and Paraguay, there’s a good chance it’s measuring the wrong thing. But the Labour-led government is looking keenly to share in the “critical strategic advantage” that it ascribes to the cheap, 100 percent renewab...
Policy
Govt track-record poor in energy investment
Any government formed in September needs to consider carefully how deeply it should intervene to deliver the country’s long-term emissions targets, MPs on a pre-election panel were told yesterday. Energy consultant Toby Stevenson said there is widespread agreement that the cou...
Policy
ELECTION 2020: NZ First wants exploration acreage protected
New Zealand First wants to find a way to halt the slide in the country’s offshore exploration acreage. The party had backed the government’s 2018 ban on new offshore exploration and was not seeking to have new permits issued now, energy and resources spokesperson Fletcher Tabu...
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