Latest Energy Policy Headlines
Gordon Campbell on Len Brown, trust, and Simon Bridges
Wed, 16 Oct 2013 11:25:02 +1300 | Gordon Campbell
Leaving aside the tawdry details of Auckland mayor Len Brown’s extramarital affair, the oddest feature is the timing of the revelations. By Brown’s own account to John Campbell last night, the affair ended mid year, just before the election campaign ...More >>
Transport Technology Innovations Needed For Decarbonization
Tue, 15 Oct 2013 17:22:26 +1300 | World Energy Council
World Energy Congress, Daegu, Korea, 14 October 2013: With the total number of cars in the world expected to double to around 2.6 billion vehicles by 2050, governments and the automotive industry must find ways to decarbonise the transportation sector ...More >>
6 EU Member States keep doors open to banned carbon credits
Tue, 15 Oct 2013 16:40:29 +1300 | Carbon Market Watch
At today’s meeting of EU Environment Ministers, Hungary, Ireland, Italy, Lithuania, Poland and Spain refused to extend the EU-ETS ban on industrial gas offset credits to their national greenhouse gas reduction targets, prompting concern that some EU ...More >>
Westpac Must Stop Funding Climate Chaos and Dump Denniston
Tue, 15 Oct 2013 14:52:20 +1300 | Coal Action Network
Today 350 Aotearoa and Coal Action Network Aotearoa launched a nationwide campaign demanding that Westpac withdraw its financial support for Bathurst Resources, the company that plans to mine the Denniston Plateau.More >>
Weather restricts power restoration
Mon, 14 Oct 2013 16:22:37 +1300 | Orion New Zealand Limited
Following high winds this morning, power remains out to around 1,000 customers in areas west and south of Darfield. We advise those customers that are presently without power to prepare to be without power overnight.More >>
Frack democracy, let's drill!
Sun, 13 Oct 2013 10:20:33 +1300 | Climate Justice Taranaki
"Taranaki residents are outraged at the Ministry for the Environment's (MfE) untimely consultation plans on the draft Guidelines for Local Government" says Emily Bailey from Climate Justice Taranaki. More >>
International Institutions Call for Net Zero Carbon by 2050
Fri, 11 Oct 2013 17:08:21 +1300 | Generation Zero
A new OECD report calling for a level of ambition needed to move countries towards net zero carbon emissions from fossil fuel combustion echoes what Generation Zero and other young New Zealanders have been saying for some time.More >>
Farmer’s rights overlooked with power lines
Fri, 11 Oct 2013 15:42:29 +1300 | Federated Farmers
Federated Farmers is helping farmers understand their rights when it comes to electricity lines on their property. More >>
Residents’ Views Sought on Oil and Gas Exploration
Fri, 11 Oct 2013 14:44:12 +1300 | Dunedin City Council
Do you have a view on exploration for oil and gas off the Otago coast? The Petroleum Block Offer is the way the Government enables petroleum companies to bid for exploration rights to New Zealand’s oil and gas resources.More >>
UN Reviews Czech Republic’s National Electricity Company
Fri, 11 Oct 2013 10:56:01 +1300 | UN News
An international team led by United Nations nuclear safety experts today completed a review of corporate safety performance at CEZ, the largest national electricity company in the Czech Republic, to address safety operations at the Dukovany and Temelin ...More >>
Solari Update: A Beginners Guide to 3D Printing - Oct. 10
Thu, 10 Oct 2013 17:36:42 +1300 | Catherine Austin Fitts
What is 3D printing and why is everyone making such a big fuss about it? According to Wikipedia: "3D printing is a process of making a three-dimensional solid object of virtually any shape from a digital model.More >>
OECD reports calls for credible carbon pricing
Thu, 10 Oct 2013 14:06:11 +1300 | New Zealand Labour Party
A new OECD report has highlighted the need for credible and consistent carbon pricing to tackle climate change, says Labour Climate Change spokesperson Moana Mackey. “The report says governments must ‘ensure that price signals sent to consumers, producers ...More >>
Standing in the Sunshine, The Answer is Blowin’ in the Wind
Tue, 8 Oct 2013 13:53:38 +1300 | Walter Brasch
Tokelau, an independent territory of New Zealand, is a small three island archipelago of about 1,400 residents about 300 miles north of American Samoa in the South Pacific. In October 2012, the Polynesian nation turned off the last of its diesel generators ...More >>
Green Party launches clean energy proposals
Sun, 6 Oct 2013 11:22:58 +1300 | Green Party
The Green Party has launched a set of proposals that will make it easier for families to reap the benefits of solar panels and other small scale renewable distributed generation.More >>
Martin Doyle cartoon: Mother Earth's Pirates
Fri, 4 Oct 2013 16:43:55 +1300 | Martin Doyle
There are nations which 'attack' the environment and plunder its resources. But the Earth's defenders, the Greenpeace campaigners, are not the actual "pirates" in this crime.More >>
On-track testing for Auckland’s new trains
Fri, 4 Oct 2013 15:25:10 +1300 | Auckland Transport
On-track testing has started for Auckland’s new trains. The first train arrived in August and this morning went out on the lines between the Wiri train depot and Puhinui station for initial testing.More >>
Consultation underway on guidelines
Fri, 4 Oct 2013 13:55:37 +1300 | New Zealand Government
Environment Minister Amy Adams says targeted technical consultation on draft guidelines for managing the environmental effects of oil and gas development activities, including hydraulic fracturing, is now underway.More >>
TPP: Anti-gas mining groups say no to investors suing govts
Thu, 3 Oct 2013 17:36:25 +1300 | AFTINET
More than 70 organisations including 54 regional groups ranging from Mirboo in Victoria, to the Cassowary Coast in North Queensland, to Walgett in NSW, in traditional areas of Coalition support, have endorsed a letter to Trade Minister Andrew Robb.More >>
Health professionals condemn bailout of Solid Energy
Thu, 3 Oct 2013 16:14:45 +1300 | OraTaiao
Health professionals are highly critical of the recent move by the New Zealand government to bail out Solid Energy. The bailout involves a direct cash injection of $25 million of taxpayer money and another $130 million in loans.More >>
Power companies may ‘sue for peace’ if Labour-Greens win
Thu, 3 Oct 2013 16:08:14 +1300 | BusinessDesk
Oct. 3 (BusinessDesk) – Electricity companies would be likely to “sue for peace” if a Labour-Green coalition government takes power at the 2014 election, to try to forestall plans to upend existing electricity markets, says Edison International ...More >>
News Alerts
RSS
