The New Zealand government has extended additional support to clean up the environment with the approval for 22 new low-emission transport projects, Energy and Resources Minister Megan Woods said on Wednesday.A community electric bike and car .
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The Climate Change Commission s first report has been released, with a raft of targets proposed to cut emissions.
Hydrogen and electric powered truck trials are among the latest low-emission projects to be backed by the Government. Energy Minister Dr Megan Woods was at the Johnsonville Waitohi Community Centre on Wednesday morning to announce the latest recipients of the low emission vehicles contestable fund. The Energy Efficiency and Conservation Authority (EECA) has decided to give $3.7 million to 22 projects, including five hydrogen fuel cell electric trucks to be purchased by Hyundai, a 100 per cent electric truck to be tested by Fuso, a one-year test of five e-trucks in Auckland, and more electric car chargers in Rotorua, Tauranga, and Dunedin.
FIVE YEARS AGO Shame on you : Application to build two blocks of flats approved A hotly debated application to demolish 10 bungalows and build 32 flats has been approved to shouts of shame on you from campaigners. Watford Community Housing Trust’s proposal to build new homes in Hemming Way was voted through despite the fact it will “stick out like a sore thumb”. Watford Borough Council planning committee unanimously agreed planning officers recommendation for approval at a meeting. Speaking on behalf of residents, Jane Owen told the meeting more than 500 had signed a petition to prevent two, three-storey blocks containing one and two-bedroom flats in the Leavesden Green Estate.
After a bit of online sleuthing, the neighbours discovered Shepherd was a convicted shoplifter and retail fraudster.
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Sharyn Shepherd, also known as Hope Maree Taylor, is allegedly harassing her neighbours in a quiet Templeton street. When
Stuff visited recently, Shepherd agreed to discuss the allegations informally. Her home was neatly kept and her garden well cared for. She said she was the one being intimidated and harassed and her past had nothing to do with her tenancy. “Am I to be trodden down for the rest of my life because someone said I was a fraudster? “All of the allegations against me about my tenancy are false. It’s a witch hunt,” she said.
New social housing units open on Christchurch s Brougham St
28 Jan, 2021 01:26 AM
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The Otautahi Community Housing Trust will officially open stage one of a new community housing development at the end of January. Photo / George Heard.
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Stage one of a rebuilt Christchurch community housing complex, demolished after the February 22, 2011, earthquake, will open tomorrow.
The site at 356-402 Brougham St was previously a large social housing complex called Brougham Village, where 89 homes were demolished.
The first stage – Korimako Lane – is a community of 30 new Homestar 7 homes. A further 60 homes will be completed between now and June.
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