Article – BusinessDesk

Feb. 13 (BusinessDesk) – West Coast coking coal miner Bathurst Resources expects it will be September at the earliest that the Environment Court will hear the appeal by environmental groups opposing resource consents granted for its Escarpment open … Read more »

Article – BusinessDesk

Feb. 9 (BusinessDesk) – State-owned coal miner Solid Energy has lodged resource consent applications for major new mining operations on the Stockton Plateau, targeting five million tonnes of high-grade coking coal, which is in demand internationally … Read more »

Press Release – Solid Energy NZ

Solid Energy has applied to the Buller District and West Coast Regional Councils for consent to develop a 5 million tonne coking coal resource at Stockton Opencast Mine north of Westport. Read more »

Article – BusinessDesk

Feb. 7 (BusinessDesk) – New Zealand’s resource management consent process creates “real opportunites for a project to be intentionally delayed” by its opponents, says Bathurst Resources managing director Hamish Bohannan. Read more »

Article – BusinessDesk

Feb. 2 (BusinessDesk) – Government-owned coal miner Solid Energy said it has bought back the 49 percent of Spring Creek Mining Company it sold to US multinational Cargill in March 2007 for an undisclosed price. Read more »

Press Release – Solid Energy NZ

Solid Energy has bought back Cargill’s 49% share of Spring Creek Mining Company, the owner of Spring Creek Underground Mine near Greymouth. Cargill joined as the minority joint venture partner in March 2007 and supported a development programme … Read more »

Press Release – L and M Energy

COMPANY ANNOUNCEMENT 1st February, 2012 Kaitangata (Pep 38219) Multi-Well Coal Seam Gas Programme L&M Energy is pleased to announce drilling is scheduled to recommence later this week within its Kaitangata permit (PEP 38219), located 60km south of Dunedin. Read more »

Article – BusinessDesk

Feb. 1 (BusinessDesk) – The government doesn’t want its Treaty of Waitangi obligations to spill over on to private investors in its asset-sale plan and will put forward its preferred option to iwi in a series of consultation hui over the next two weeks. Read more »

Article – BusinessDesk

Jan. 30 (BusinessDesk) – Coal-miner Bathurst Resources has signed a deal with Port Taranaki to lease some ground at the New Plymouth transport hub. Read more »

Article – BusinessDesk

Jan. 26 (BusinessDesk) – New Zealand Oil & Gas, the largest shareholder in Pike River Coal, will take a $21 million impairment charge on the rest of its investment in the mine. Read more »

Press Release – Pike River Families Committee

The Greymouth newspaper has reported today comments from the Mayor Tony Kokshoorn, and the Receiver of Pike River Coal Limited, John Fisk, regarding important issues of recovery. Read more »

Article – BusinessDesk

Jan. 16 (BusinessDesk) – The New Zealand oil and gas industry announced the appointment of a new chief executive and a quadrupled budget today as it prepares to fight harder for the industry in the face of growing opposition to unconventional oil exploration, … Read more »

Press Release – Solid Energy NZ

Teachers throughout the country are able to take their students on educational adventures thanks to LEARNZ virtual field trips. In its tenth year of sponsorship, Solid Energy will support four online and interactive excursions in 2012. Read more »

Press Release – Pike River Royal Commission

The Royal Commission on the Pike River Coal Mine Tragedy will hear from two Australian experts in relation to the Department of Labour investigation report when its hearings resume in February. Read more »

Article – BusinessDesk

Jan. 6 (BusinessDesk) – Solid Energy, the state-owned coal miner that’s on the government’s list to be sold, may lift profit by about 96 percent over the next five years, according to an assessment by brokerage Forsyth Barr. Read more »

Article – BusinessDesk

Sell-down of NZ state energy companies would gross $6.8 bln, latest valuations show Read more »

Article – BusinessDesk

Dec. 22 (BusinessDesk) – Advertising agencies are working through the Christmas holiday period to meet a Treasury request for proposals to provide the advertising and communications campaigns that will accompany the government’s partial privatisation … Read more »

Press Release – Pike River Families Committee

Recent articles have conveyed a misleading impression to the public and the Families regarding the prospect of entry into the Pike River Mine for the purpose of recovery of the men. Read more »

Press Release – Department Of Labour

MEDIA ReleaSE 19 DECEMBER 2011 High Hazards Unit Recruitment Completed The Department of Labour’s High Hazards Unit mining team has been appointed and the Chief Mines Inspector from Queensland has been seconded to head the group while recruitment for … Read more »

Article – BusinessDesk

Dec. 16 (BusinessDesk) – The receiver for Pike River Coal doesn’t expect to sign a sale agreement before Christmas as negotiations with international parties interested in the sealed coal mine continue. Read more »