This blog has made mention before of new legislation introduced by National and impacting very negatively on mining and exploration in NZ. The legislation flies in the face of National’s claims to be business friendly. Basically the legislation seeks to recover costs the EPA claims to incur when processing any application for exploration or mining…
Obama is closing coal fired electricity plants when the people who vote for him are coal miners and people who complain about the high cost of power. The people who give him a 50% approval rating. One of the US’s largest coal utilities will begin closing power plants next month in four states, as strict…
RNZ reports that the Environmental Protection Authority was subjected to some blistering criticism at an energy conference in Auckland yesterday. The authority was accused of being poorly focused and very expensive in the way it operates. Authority Chairwoman Kerry Prendergast proved there was some validity to this criticism by producing a long list of things…
