Renewable, but not exactly clean: Climate report hints at debate over NZ s newest power plant
8 Feb, 2021 09:00 PM
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The Ngawha Power Station reduces Northland s need to get power from elsewhere, but its emissions are significantly higher than most other geothermal stations. Photo / Top Energy
The Ngawha Power Station reduces Northland s need to get power from elsewhere, but its emissions are significantly higher than most other geothermal stations. Photo / Top Energy
The Climate Change Commission s advice to the Government calls for a major change to electricity generation, with more wind and low-emission geothermal and less coal and gas.
But what about the high-emission geothermal?
This heritage-listed farmhouse built in 1880, is next to Te Waimate Mission in Northland.
Interior designer Patrick Crawshaw is no stranger to renovating – three years ago he completely restored the former harbourmaster’s cottage on the hill in Russell, being just the third owner of the house built in 1923. More recently, he bought another historic property, a Historic Places Category 2-listed former farmhouse in Te Ahu Ahu Road, Kerikeri, which he has now listed for sale, privately. This time, the renovation was already underway when he moved in a year ago. But Crawshaw says he spent a lot of time and effort setting up the two-storey villa to be a boutique hotel, continuing the work started by the interior designer of the renowned Donkey Bay resort and Duke of Marlborough Hotel in Northland.
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Kaikohe s redesign and the young people making it happen
8 Jan, 2021 11:30 PM
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After an internship with Ākau, Matenga Ashby works as a junior designer for the studio. Photo / Jonny Davis
After an internship with Ākau, Matenga Ashby works as a junior designer for the studio. Photo / Jonny Davis
By: Catherine Steel
The young people of Kaikohe in the Far North are redesigning their town and discovering what is possible through creativity, writes Catherine Steel. The road to Kaikohe sweeps its way past rolling farmland, land war sites. An hour s drive from Whangārei, Kaikohe is close, geographically, to the many surrounding affluent coastal and farming towns but far from them, in so many ways. To get here, you ll pass the Hundertwasser toilets in Kawakawa, the Moerewa meatworks and then, after the turnoff to Ngawha with its healings waters, you ll enter Kaikohe – the heart of Ngāpuhi, the largest iwi in Aotearoa.