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The place for NZ oriented news releases on climate change and related energy policy.
Why was there a successful result in Bonn?
Members of New Zealand’s delegation who attended the Bonn conference will present a briefing on the conference and its outcomes. There will be some discussion of the implications for New Zealand’s policy development on climate change
Wellington - Tuesday 4 September
Christchurch - Wednesday 5 September
Auckland - Thursday 6 September
Members of New Zealand’s delegation who attended the Bonn conference will present a briefing on the conference and its outcomes. There will be some discussion of the implications for New Zealand’s policy development on climate change
Wellington - Tuesday 4 September
Christchurch - Wednesday 5 September
Auckland - Thursday 6 September
Native plantation scheme targets greenhouse gases
Government science company Landcare Research says it will launch a scheme this week to offset greenhouse gas emissions with native forest and pine plantations.
Government science company Landcare Research says it will launch a scheme this week to offset greenhouse gas emissions with native forest and pine plantations.
Online power market opens for business
A secondary market for electricity opens this week, with high hopes that it will provide solace for companies stung by soaring energy bills.
A secondary market for electricity opens this week, with high hopes that it will provide solace for companies stung by soaring energy bills.
Photosynthesis redirected to produce hydrogen as fuel
Researchers from the University of Tennessee's Centre for Environmental Biotechnology (CEB) and the Oak Ridge National Laboratory (ORNL) have demonstrated how photosynthesis can be redirected to produce hydrogen.
Researchers from the University of Tennessee's Centre for Environmental Biotechnology (CEB) and the Oak Ridge National Laboratory (ORNL) have demonstrated how photosynthesis can be redirected to produce hydrogen.
Power Points For Power Crisis
The oldest form of heating could provide the solution to the power crisis said The New Zealand Home Heating Association, National President Andrew Pullen. "Woodburning is a renewable energy source which is an alternative to electricity," says Mr Pullen.
The oldest form of heating could provide the solution to the power crisis said The New Zealand Home Heating Association, National President Andrew Pullen. "Woodburning is a renewable energy source which is an alternative to electricity," says Mr Pullen.
Plan Now To Avoid Future Power Crises
Green Party co-leader Jeanette Fitzsimons today said New Zealand needed to develop long-term plans to avoid future power crises due to low hydro lake levels.
Ms Fitzsimons said with the changing global climate it was increasingly risky to rely on the rainfall patterns of the past and new environmentally friendly technologies needed to be used to ensure reliable power supplies.
Green Party co-leader Jeanette Fitzsimons today said New Zealand needed to develop long-term plans to avoid future power crises due to low hydro lake levels.
Ms Fitzsimons said with the changing global climate it was increasingly risky to rely on the rainfall patterns of the past and new environmentally friendly technologies needed to be used to ensure reliable power supplies.
IPENZ informatory note for engineers - pdf document
SUSTAINABILITY AND CLIMATE AN ENGINEERING RESPONSE IPENZ Informatory Note Four July 2001 IPENZ
SUSTAINABILITY AND CLIMATE AN ENGINEERING RESPONSE IPENZ Informatory Note Four July 2001 IPENZ
Lake spill in bid to save birds
State generator Meridian Energy wasted millions of litres of valuable hydro water in a misguided effort to protect rare birds nesting downstream of its main storage lake.
State generator Meridian Energy wasted millions of litres of valuable hydro water in a misguided effort to protect rare birds nesting downstream of its main storage lake.
Hydro sells NZ stake - will invest funds in wind energy - but not in NZ
Pacific Hydro recently opened a 18-megawatt Codrington wind-generation facility near Port Fairy. It plans a 200-megawatt wind farm at four sites around Portland and a 75-megawatt plant near Ararat.
The next project is likely to be a small 10-megawatt wind farm at the Port of Fremantle. Mr Harding said the returns from wind power were higher than Pacific Hydro could expect to make on its Bay of Plenty investment.
Pacific Hydro recently opened a 18-megawatt Codrington wind-generation facility near Port Fairy. It plans a 200-megawatt wind farm at four sites around Portland and a 75-megawatt plant near Ararat.
The next project is likely to be a small 10-megawatt wind farm at the Port of Fremantle. Mr Harding said the returns from wind power were higher than Pacific Hydro could expect to make on its Bay of Plenty investment.
Islanders press Bush on global warming
Leaders of the world's smallest island nations in the Pacific are demanding a meeting with President George W Bush to try to win his support as rising sea levels threaten low-lying atolls
Leaders of the world's smallest island nations in the Pacific are demanding a meeting with President George W Bush to try to win his support as rising sea levels threaten low-lying atolls
Powerful plans to boost energy flow
Low hydro lakes and warnings of power shortages have brought New Zealand's need for more power stations sharply into focus.
Low hydro lakes and warnings of power shortages have brought New Zealand's need for more power stations sharply into focus.
Forest firms fear impact of Kyoto
The environmental treaty may exacerbate a world oversupply of softwood and help NZ's competitors
The environmental treaty may exacerbate a world oversupply of softwood and help NZ's competitors
ACT - Government Kyoto Deal Betrays New Zealand Forestry
ACT Forestry Spokesman Ken Shirley today revealed details from a secret Government-funded report, which finds that adherence to the Kyoto Protocol will strip billions of dollars of value from New Zealand's forest growing sector, drive our processing industries offshore and result in lost investment and jobs.
ACT Forestry Spokesman Ken Shirley today revealed details from a secret Government-funded report, which finds that adherence to the Kyoto Protocol will strip billions of dollars of value from New Zealand's forest growing sector, drive our processing industries offshore and result in lost investment and jobs.
NZ ratification target date
New Zealand intends to ratify the Kyoto Protocol in September 2002, Convenor of the Ministerial Group on Climate Change Pete Hodgson said today.
New Zealand intends to ratify the Kyoto Protocol in September 2002, Convenor of the Ministerial Group on Climate Change Pete Hodgson said today.
Hodgson Speech on Kyoto and the US
In Bonn the rest of the international community made it clear that it was not prepared to wait indefinitely for a new US position and for specific proposals. So without the United States we finished work on the Protocol's rules..
In Bonn the rest of the international community made it clear that it was not prepared to wait indefinitely for a new US position and for specific proposals. So without the United States we finished work on the Protocol's rules..
Hair shirts useless without support
The least divisive approach might be for countries wanting others to reduce lawful emissions of greenhouse gases to offer to compensate them for the costs of forgoing their legal rights to make such emissions.
The least divisive approach might be for countries wanting others to reduce lawful emissions of greenhouse gases to offer to compensate them for the costs of forgoing their legal rights to make such emissions.
Bonn gets agreement back on track
The Government must indicate what domestic action it will take and when.
Some early steps such as efficiency regulation will pay for themselves. We should be targeting our big emission growth sectors, transport and fossil fuel powered electricity generation.
The Government must indicate what domestic action it will take and when.
Some early steps such as efficiency regulation will pay for themselves. We should be targeting our big emission growth sectors, transport and fossil fuel powered electricity generation.
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EDS submission to the 2001 Tax Review - on carbon and othe eco-taxes.
EDS submission to the 2001 Tax Review - on carbon and othe eco-taxes.
New Huntly plant gets consent
Environment Waikato granted a 25-year air discharge consent and a consent until 2013 for taking and discharging Waikato River cooling water.
The carbon dioxide emissions for the new and existing plant would be capped at 4.6 megatonnes a year.
The existing plant's resource consent had no restrictions on its emissions and its coal fuel alone could produce 8.6 megatonnes a year.
The carbon dioxide emissions cap would last until 2010 and would then have no restrictions.
Genesis Power says it will use the new plant before the existing station to lower emissions.
Environment Waikato granted a 25-year air discharge consent and a consent until 2013 for taking and discharging Waikato River cooling water.
The carbon dioxide emissions for the new and existing plant would be capped at 4.6 megatonnes a year.
The existing plant's resource consent had no restrictions on its emissions and its coal fuel alone could produce 8.6 megatonnes a year.
The carbon dioxide emissions cap would last until 2010 and would then have no restrictions.
Genesis Power says it will use the new plant before the existing station to lower emissions.
