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NZ to go Dutch to battle climate change
Dutch and Kiwi farmers must innovate together, the Prime Minister of the Netherlands Mark Rutte said, announcing a joint cooperation statement on climate change with New Zealand today. Today’s cooperation statement reiterates the commitments both countries have towards climat...
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UPDATE: Sage defeated in new Waihi mine decision
(Updates to add comment from OceanaGold, the Employers and Manufacturers Association and BusinessNZ, beginning in paragraph 12). In a surprise turnaround, the government has given OceanaGold a greenlight to buy land to expand its Waihi mine after the application was previousl...
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Small end of town needs to chip in on climate change - Carr
Corporate New Zealand is increasingly engaged on the real challenges of climate change but the nation’s efforts will need to be much broader based to be effective, the new head of the Climate Change Commission says. Rod Carr, previously Vice-Chancellor of Canterbury University...
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Rail revaluation bolsters Crown 2019 accounts as tax take swells
The government's annual accounts were healthier than predicted, due in large part to a $2.6 billion reversal in earlier writedowns to the value of the rail network, and a bigger tax take. The operating balance before gains and losses (obegal) was a surplus of $7.5 billion in...
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