Wednesday, 18 August 2004

Copeland welcomes Mighty River Marsden initiative

United Future energy spokesman Gordon Copeland today welcomed the announcement from Mighty River Power that it wants to fire up the Marsden B power station near Whangarei, adding another 320 MW of electricity to the nation’s supply.

Marsden B was originally built in 1978 to run on oil, but has never been commissioned. It has access to an existing grid distribution system and is handily placed to supply Auckland’s growing power needs.

Mighty River plans to apply for resource consent to commission the station and run it on coal. The station could be up and running in 3 – 5 years.

Mr Copeland said “New Zealand needs more electricity generation and I welcome this announcement which will give a significant boost to New Zealand’s growth prospects.”

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Gordon Campbell: On the Sony cyber attack

Given the layers of meta-irony involved, the saga of the Sony cyber attack seemed at the outset more like a snarky European art film than a popcorn entry at the multiplex.

Yet now with (a) President Barack Obama weighing in on the side of artistic freedom and calling for the US to make a ‘proportionate response’quickly followed by (b) North Korea’s entire Internet service going down, and with both these events being followed by (c) Sony deciding to backtrack and release The Interview film that had made it a target for the dastardly North Koreans in the first place, then ay caramba…the whole world will now be watching how this affair pans out. More>>