A Local Democracy Reporting investigation can reveal a $6.7m Rotorua District Council investment in technology to turn human waste into "gold" has returned zero dollars in 12 years.
A decade on from New Zealand's worst maritime disaster, key players look back on the response to the container ship striking a reef off the Tauranga coast and coating nearby beaches with oil.
Popular tourist beaches in northern New Zealand have been closed after oil leaking from a stranded cargo ship began washing up on the shore.
Popular tourist beaches in northern New Zealand have been closed after oil leaking from a stranded cargo ship began washing up on the shore.
The oil spill caused by the stricken container ship Rena is currently heading towards the southern end of Matakana island in the Bay of Plenty.
Clumps of oil have already been found on Mount Maunganui beach on the country’s North Island, and are expected to reach Tauranga port and beaches south of Maketu.
Thursday, 11 February 2021, 2:58 pm | Kiwis Against Seabed Mining Kiwis Against Seabed Mining, and other NGO s in the region welcome the Northen Territory s
imminent ban on seabed mining, after a nine year campaign. Cindy Baxter, Chair, Kiwis
Against Seabed Mining, said, This political decision by the Northern Territory . More
Monday, 16 November 2020, 4:12 pm | Kiwis Against Seabed Mining Kiwis Against Seabed Mining (KASM) and Greenpeace will be in the Supreme Court today
for the last battle in a long fight to oppose a seabed mine in the South Taranaki
Bight. The groups are appearing, alongside iwi, other environmental groups and fishing . More
Friday, 3 April 2020, 4:10 pm | Kiwis Against Seabed Mining
Wind turbine towers and nacelles are in place at Turitea awaiting the rotor hubs and blades. When Mercury’s $465m, 60-turbine Turitea wind farm is complete, that will rise to half of the nation’s wind power. It’s a huge contribution but, even so, wind currently provides less than 6 per cent of New Zealand’s electricity. In order to reach the Government’s target of 100 per cent renewable energy by 2030, wind generation is going to have to increase 10-fold. The Tararua skyline, the windiest, richest wind resource in New Zealand, if not anywhere in the world, according to Mercury’s generation development manager Dennis Radich, has pretty much run out of capacity.