Press Release – Electricity and Gas Complaints Commission

Heather Roy has been appointed as Chair of the Electricity and Gas Complaints Commissioner Scheme (EGCC) Board. The EGCC offers a dispute resolution service for complaints about electricity and gas companies that are members of the Scheme. Read more »

Article – BusinessDesk

Dec. 9 (BusinessDesk) – The Environmental Protection Agency wrongly delegating responsibility for assessing the environmental impact of an oil spill when it gave an exploration permit to Texan oil company Anadarko, counsel for Greenpeace New Zealand told the … Read more »

Press Release – NZ Petroleum and Minerals

Energy and Resources Minister Simon Bridges has announced the award of ten new oil and gas exploration permits as a result of Block Offer 2013. The permits include five onshore permits across Taranaki and the East Coast and five offshore permits … Read more »

Press Release – New Zealand Customs Service

The New Zealand Customs Service today welcomed the judgment by the Supreme Court that duty is payable on butane blended with petrol. The case involved Gull/Terminals NZ. Read more »

Article – BusinessDesk

Dec. 5 (BusinessDesk) – Government efforts to entice major global oil and gas producers to New Zealand has borne fruit, with Norways state-owned Statoil and Australian heavyweight Woodside Petroleum winning exploration licences in the latest permit … Read more »

Speech – New Zealand Government

As Minister of Energy and Resources, its my pleasure to welcome and host you here in Parliament this morning to award permits for the Governments second annual Block Offer. Read more »

Press Release – New Zealand Government

Energy and Resources Minister Simon Bridges today announced the award of ten new oil and gas exploration permits as a result of Block Offer 2013. The permits include five onshore permits across Taranaki and the East Coast and five offshore permits … Read more »

Press Release – Green Party

New data shows that families spending on transport is skyrocketing, driven by the cost of petrol and cars, and Nationals transport priorities is making it worse, Green Party transport spokesperson Julie Anne Genter said today. Read more »

Press Release – New Zealand Police

People evacuated are now being allowed to return to most of the affected area. Police cordons are being removed with the exception of the area bounded by Kamo Road, Wakelin St and Wilkinson Ave. Read more »

Press Release – Climate Justice Taranaki

New queries by community watchdog Climate Justice Taranaki and other concerned citizens has revealed no insurance company will cover landowners or communities at risk from fracking or oil drilling exploration. Read more »

Article – BusinessDesk

Nov. 26 (BusinessDesk) Greenpeace is making a last ditch attempt to halt Taranaki deep-sea oil drilling, which began overnight, filing papers in the High Court in Wellington for judicial review of the regulating agencies performance in permitting … Read more »

Article – BusinessDesk

Nov. 26 (BusinessDesk) Greenpeace is making a last ditch attempt to halt Taranaki deep-sea oil drilling, which began overnight, filing papers in the High Court at Auckland for judicial review of the regulating agencies performance in permitting … Read more »

Press Release – Contact Energy

Over 40 per cent of New Zealanders have been caught short and run out of gas while barbequing in the past five years, according to research by TNS New Zealand. Read more »

Press Release – Electricity and Gas Complaints Commission

In the six months to 30 September 2013 the office of the Electricity and Gas Complaints Commissioner Scheme (EGCC) received 986 complaints about electricity and gas companies. This is down from 1,209 in the same period last year. Read more »

Article – BusinessDesk

Nov 24 (BusinessDesk) Officials at Maritime New Zealand have spent the weekend scrambling to create a public version of Texan oil explorer Anadarkos detailed plans to control a major oil spill at its drilling rig 150 kilometres off the North … Read more »

Article – BusinessDesk

Nov. 21 (BusinessDesk) The risk of one notifiable incident occurring annually on a deep-sea oil rig rises to 70 percent in the deep waters being explored by Texan oil firm Anadarko in the Taranaki and Canterbury basins over the summer. Read more »

Press Release – Gull

Gull, New Zealands only family owned fuel retailer, today announced a discount day to mark the final weeks of the spring season. Gull pride themselves upon delivering the lowest possible prices to the kiwi motorist and keeping the New Zealand fuel … Read more »

Press Release – Greenpeace New Zealand

The Greenpeace sponsored SV Vega off to the stern of the Noble Bob Douglas drilling ship, earlier today, on the site where oil giant Anadarko intends to start exploratory drilling for deep sea oil. The drill site is over 100 nautical miles off Raglan, … Read more »

Opinion – Dr Gareth Morgan

On one level the governments enthusiasm for the economic bounty from deep sea oil is understandable; on two others its unacceptable. Any economic windfall of national significance is welcome, but so far two aspects of the hunt for this one … Read more »

Article – BusinessDesk

Nov. 19 (BusinessDesk) The deep-sea oil drilling ship Noble Bob Douglas, owned by Texan oil company Anadarko, has arrived at the intended site of an exploration well in the Deepwater Taranaki prospect, with only one of six protest flotilla craft … Read more »