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Public silenced on oil well consents
Tue, 13 Aug 2013 15:04:13 +1200 | Green Party
The Gisborne District Council is wrong to deny residents a say on the first proposed oil well in the district, the Green Party said today. “An international corporation should not be allowed to apply for consents to drill an oil well on the East Coast ...More >>
Extractive Industries Transparency Initiative
Thu, 8 Aug 2013 17:33:38 +1200 | US State Department
Last week was an important one here in Washington for the Extractive Industries Transparency Initiative (EITI), an international group that countries can join to promote accountability in the management of payments countries receive from oil, gas, and mining activities.More >>
Wind Power Capacity Expanding Rapidly in U.S.
Thu, 8 Aug 2013 17:29:18 +1200 | US State Department
Wind power is gaining a greater share of the U.S. energy market, according to a new assessment from the Department of Energy, making the United States one of the world’s largest and fastest-growing markets for this clean and renewable source of energy.More >>
New smelter power deal allows for faster closure
Thu, 8 Aug 2013 12:20:07 +1200 | BusinessDesk
Aug 8 (BusinessDesk) - The Tiwai Point aluminium smelter's major owner, Rio Tinto, has won the ability to close the plant more quickly than in the contracts it has managed to overturn in favour of a new deal announced today.More >>
PIRA Energy Group's Weekly Oil Market Recap for the Week End
Wed, 7 Aug 2013 14:15:35 +1200 | PIRA Energy Group
PIRA Energy Group's Weekly Oil Market Recap for the Week Ending August 4th, 2013 More >>
Auckland Council awarded 3.5 star NABERSNZ energy rating
Tue, 6 Aug 2013 16:04:45 +1200 | Energy Efficiency and Conservation Authority
Auckland Council’s Graham Street Service Centre has been awarded 3.5 stars for energy use under NABERSNZ™, the new office building energy measurement and rating scheme. More >>
Labour-Greens power policy is 'bass-ackwards', Wolak says
Fri, 2 Aug 2013 16:06:28 +1200 | BusinessDesk
Aug 2 (BusinessDesk) - The American academic whose work underpins the Labour Party's electricity policy says New Zealand's existing market arrangements are starting to work better and should be improved further.More >>
Wolak comments mischaracterised
Fri, 2 Aug 2013 15:41:21 +1200 | New Zealand Labour Party
Reports in the media have claimed that Professor Wolak, a world-leading expert on electricity markets from Stanford University, recently said that single buyer electricity markets do not work. More >>
Cost of storm sign of things to come
Fri, 2 Aug 2013 15:24:41 +1200 | Green Party
New figures estimating the cost of the June storm to the country are even more concerning given the increase in extreme weather events that we face, the Green Party said today. More >>
Deep Sea Mining Targeted By Activists At London Conference
Fri, 2 Aug 2013 14:50:57 +1200 | The Ocean Foundation
Today inside London’s Cumberland Hotel a ‘deep sea mining summit’ is taking place, involving representatives from the mining industry, financiers and the British government. The industry is keen to get support – but the communities that will ...More >>
Indonesia: Lundin Swaps Sareba Block For West Papua Tract
Fri, 2 Aug 2013 14:26:45 +1200 | Oil and Gas Journal
A unit of Lundin Petroleum AB, Stockholm, has signed a production-sharing contract amendment with SKKMigas to substitute the existing Sareba block acreage for new acreage named Cendrawasih VII offshore northeastern Indonesia.More >>
Need for low-carbon economy highlighted: Generation Zero
Fri, 2 Aug 2013 14:10:18 +1200 | Generation Zero
The report from the Prime Minister’s Chief Science Advisor on the effects of climate change on New Zealand reaffirms the serious risks presented by the changing climate and highlights the need to urgently move beyond fossil fuels to a low-carbon economy, ...More >>
The Pain Of "Uncertainty" - The Westport Story, part 2
Thu, 1 Aug 2013 16:09:43 +1200 | The Westport Story told by Scoop
“There’s so much uncertainty out there for our town at the moment. This is why people are starting to speak up”. This sentiment – expressed by a letter writer to Westport newspaper The News on 19 June – was heard often during Scoop Amplifier’s ...More >>
6 Key Oil & Gas Discoveries of 2013 – Who's Worth Owning
Tue, 30 Jul 2013 16:17:53 +1200 | Oilprice.com
The pace of oil and gas exploration is frightening, and discoveries are weekly, if not daily, with volumes investors would only have dreamt of a decade ago. With each new discovery, it becomes difficult to keep track of the playing field, and even ...More >>
Forest owners pumped by bioenergy project
Fri, 26 Jul 2013 17:17:49 +1200 | NZ Forest Owners' Association
Forest owners are hopeful that a project designed to convert forest waste into liquid biofuels will provide growers and mills with extra income streams. In what is known as the 'Stump to Pump' project, the government has approved $6.75 million in funding ...More >>
Bioenergy Association encouraged by Govt support for biofuel
Fri, 26 Jul 2013 17:06:01 +1200 | Bioenergy Association
The announcement by the Government of Primary Growth Partnership funding of $6.75 million) to investigate producing biofuels from forestry residues is encouraging and supports the forestry and wood processing sector strategy that identified that ...More >>
Hot Air In Nigeria Over Bonga Oil Spill
Fri, 26 Jul 2013 15:26:40 +1200 | Akanimo Sampson
PROCEEDINGS at an environmental training workshop and capacity building for civil society groups on offshore oil exploration and exploitation in Nigeria and , Its Impact on lives and livelihoods, was characterized with some hot exchanges between ...More >>
Earthquake a Warning Against Oil Drilling In Pegasus Basin
Wed, 24 Jul 2013 15:48:14 +1200 | Oil Free Wellington
The recent flurry of strong earthquakes centred in Cook Strait should be warning enough against Anadarko's plans for deep sea oil drilling, Oil Free Wellington says.More >>
Aucklanders Should Benefit from Lowered Electricity Charges
Wed, 24 Jul 2013 15:03:12 +1200 | Auckland Energy Consumer Trust
The Auckland Energy Consumer Trust, the independent consumer trust and majority owner of infrastructure group Vector Limited, says it is disappointed that Auckland’s residential electricity customers are not benefitting from the recent decrease in ...More >>
Australia May Contain World's Next Major Oil Find
Tue, 23 Jul 2013 16:10:40 +1200 | Oilprice.com
Australia's massive mineral exports allowed it to weather the global recession, which began in 2008, quite nicely. More >>
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