Mentions of Mighty River Power in New Zealand Parliament debates
Mighty River Power has been mentioned in 78 parliamentary debates since November 2005.
General Debate 15 Jun 2011
Dr JACKIE BLUE ... and reduce the Government’s majority share in Air New Zealand. We plan to offer investors shares in Meridian Energy, Mighty River Power, Genesis, Solid Energy, and Air New Zealand. This will free up between $5 billion and $7 billion to pay for new public ...
Debate on Crown Entities, Public Organisations, and State Enterprises - In Committee
In Committee 14 Jun 2011
Mighty River Power
Hon DAVID PARKER Mighty River Power is the next of the companies that the Government proposes to privatise half of. I want to respond to some of the ...
Hon DAVID PARKER ... of those companies, rather than competition in theory but market gouging of consumers in practice. The review of Mighty River Power takes us to the same conclusion as the conclusion we got from Meridian Energy: it is a nonsense if we sell off these ...
PESETA SAM LOTU-IIGA It is a privilege to speak on the financial review of Mighty River Power. I start by saying what a great company—what a great company—Mighty River Power is in the types of businesses that it ...
PESETA SAM LOTU-IIGA ... to mention that the other way of increasing an organisation’s capability is to increase volume. That is exactly what Mighty River Power is doing—that is exactly what it is doing. It is investing overseas. We heard from Doug Heffernan in his testimony that ...
Budget Debate 9 Jun 2011
CHARLES CHAUVEL ... I was talking about the proposal in the Budget to privatise the power companies Meridian Energy, Genesis Power, and Mighty River Power, and also to sell the stake in Air New Zealand. I was setting out why Labour thought this was such a short-sighted ...
Budget Debate 8 Jun 2011
LOUISE UPSTON ... our lake, so $4.8 million has been put specifically into that. The final positive piece of news for the day is that Mighty River Power has announced in my electorate today that $466 million will go into a new plant at Ngātamariki for geothermal ...
CHARLES CHAUVEL ... that concerns me the most. It is the proposal to sell off stakes in Air New Zealand, Meridian Energy, Genesis Energy, Mighty River Power, and Solid Energy.
Budget Debate 7 Jun 2011
BRENDON BURNS ... that the Government wants to go down the track of selling 49 percent of State assets Meridian Energy, Genesis Energy, Mighty River Power, Solid Energy, and Air New Zealand. I put on record my opposition to those sales, and say that in the late 1990s ...
Taxation (Annual Rates and Budget Measures) Bill
Third Reading 20 May 2011
Hon DAVID CUNLIFFE ... so-called mixed-ownership model, which makes people pay twice for things they already own. Every New Zealander owns Mighty River Power, Meridian Energy, Genesis Energy, and 80 percent of Air New Zealand. New Zealanders own them already. They do not need ...
BRENDON BURNS ... the Budget provides for the sell-down of half of some of the major assets currently held by the Crown. We look at Mighty River Power, Meridian Energy, Genesis, Solid Energy, and Air New Zealand as being the principal assets that we hold, and we say it ...
Budget Statement - Budget Debate
Budget Debate 19 May 2011
Hon BILL ENGLISH ... Zealand.
The Government therefore intends to apply the Mixed Ownership Model to Mighty River Power, Genesis Energy, Solid Energy and Meridian Energy, along with reducing its shareholding in Air New Zealand, starting in ...
General Debate 4 May 2011
Hon NANAIA MAHUTA ... selling State assets is not a long-term solution that will help them. The Government wants to sell Meridian Energy, Mighty River Power, Genesis Power, Solid Energy—
Debate on Budget Policy Statement 9 Mar 2011
LOUISE UPSTON ... have. Some of the State-owned enterprises that are being looked at in terms of a change of ownership model, such as Mighty River Power, have a significant operation in my electorate. It is interesting to talk to people about whether they believe we ...
Hon TREVOR MALLARD ... be created by transferring a State-owned enterprise, or part of one, to Māori. There will not be one extra job in Mighty River Power from the transfer of ownership to Māori, as she has just advocated in the House. I say to that member that the assets ...
Finance
State-owned Assets, Sales—Ownership of Shares 6 Sep 2011
Hon David Cunliffe ... is well acquainted with, has he revised downwards the expected proceeds of selling Genesis, Meridian Energy, and Mighty River Power; if so, by how much?
State-owned Assets—Crown Equity in Energy Companies and Air New Zealand 16 Jun 2011
Hon DAVID PARKER What was the combined increase in the value of the Crown’s equity in Meridian, Mighty River Power, Solid Energy, Genesis and Air New Zealand for each of the last five years?
State-owned Assets, Sales—Investment Protocol with Australia 15 Feb 2011
Dr RUSSEL NORMAN ... provisions that would stop Australians from buying shares in New Zealand State-owned assets such as Meridian Energy, Mighty River Power, Genesis Energy, and Solid Energy, should a future Government privatise them?
Debate on Prime Minister’s Statement 10 Feb 2011
PHIL TWYFORD ... is a scam on the people of New Zealand. It is a fraud; we already own Meridian Energy, Solid Energy, Genesis, and Mighty River Power. Let us look at what Mr Key said in his Prime Minister’s speech to this House. Mr Key said he wants us to own our own ...
Debate on Prime Minister’s Statement 8 Feb 2011
Rt Hon JOHN KEY ... finalising our policy on mixed-ownership models whereby we will be looking to control 51 percent of Meridian Energy, Mighty River Power, Genesis, and Solid Energy. Let us understand the tests in those models. The first test is that the Crown will always,...
CHRIS AUCHINVOLE ... Minister say he was looking at a proposal for a partial sell-down in Solid Energy, Meridian Energy, Genesis, and Mighty River Power. Mixed ownership, a partial sell-down, and a guaranteed 51 percent Government investment—it is a win-win-win. It wins ...
Ngati Tuwharetoa, Raukawa, and Te Arawa River Iwi Waikato River Bill
Second Reading 12 Oct 2010
LOUISE UPSTON ... The Waikato River supplies 13 percent of New Zealand’s electricity generation. Just last week I was at the Mighty River Power annual general meeting at Karapiro, and the point I want to make is that it was interesting to see the wide variety of ...
Estimates Debate - In Committee
In Committee 28 Jul 2010
LOUISE UPSTON ... Taupō from the harsh recession that has been felt across the country. Taupō has been sheltered because both Mighty River Power and Contact Energy have recently opened significant geothermal power stations, and they are consenting at the moment ...
Debate on Crown Entities, Public Organisations, and State Enterprises - In Committee
In Committee 29 Jun 2010
Hon DAVID CUNLIFFE ...Zealand’s interests to sell Kiwibank, just as it is not in New Zealand’s interest to sell Meridian Energy, Genesis, or Mighty River Power, because those are crucial, strategic, monopoly assets in New Zealand. It is a sham that the electricity bill that is ...
Hon SIMON POWER ... they paid about $647.6 million in dividends, which included a $150 million special dividend from both Meridian and Mighty River Power. The responsibility of shareholding Ministers is to ensure that this investment, the $25 billion, effectively ...
Mighty River Power Ltd
LOUISE UPSTON I am thrilled to be able to stand and speak on Mighty River Power during this debate on State-owned enterprises. Mighty River Power is a significant organisation in the Taupō ....
TODD McCLAY It gives me pleasure to stand and speak in this debate, and in particular to talk about Mighty River Power. Before I do I will make a few general comments, then come on to talk about Mighty River Power and about some of the ...
TODD McCLAY ... me now. Last year the geothermal power station at Kawerau received a top national award for the work that it did, and Mighty River Power won the electricity supply industry Engineering Excellence Award during that year. Of course, a lot of local people had ...
JOHN BOSCAWEN ... owned by the State—a record year. I say that because I believe that Government-owned electricity generators Mighty River Power, Genesis, and Meridian Energy will make more money than they have ever made before. In 2 days’ time we will have the ...
The CHAIRPERSON The subject under debate is the estimates for Mighty River Power. If the member is bringing in other material, he must relate it to Mighty River Power.
JOHN BOSCAWEN I am certainly bringing in things that are relevant to Mighty River Power. The emissions trading scheme will enable Mighty River Power to increase the price of its electricity and make super ...
JONATHAN YOUNG I am very happy to speak on Mighty River Power. We have heard some excellent information about this State-owned enterprise, and about its success particularly during ...
General Debate 16 Jun 2010
LOUISE UPSTON ... the number of people who have been gainfully employed in the construction of infrastructure. But that is not all. Mighty River Power has started work on its Nga Tamariki geothermal project, and on 1 July Contact Energy is opening the Te Mihi geothermal ...
Electricity (Renewable Preference) Amendment Bill 2010
First Reading 16 Jun 2010
Hon NATHAN GUY ...rgy’s Project West Wind out in the hills behind Wellington will generate 143 megawatts when it is online. There is also Mighty River Power’s 132-megawatt Nga Awa Purua geothermal station, and back in December 2008 Mighty River Power’s 100-megawatt Kawerau ...
CHARLES CHAUVEL ... the West Wind project, and others. It is great to see other companies going into renewable generation, for example Mighty River Power going into the geothermal business in a big way, and others looking at concepts like tidal power. Those technologies ...
TE URUROA FLAVELL ... power station north-east of Taupō was lodged by the Rotokawa Joint Venture Ltd, a commercial partnership between Mighty River Power and Tauhara North No. 2 Trust. Once commissioned in 2013, it is believed that the Ngā Tamariki will create enough ...
JONATHAN YOUNG ... that in this last year Meridian Energy’s Project West Wind in Mākara of 143 megawatts has come on line, as well as Mighty River Power’s 130 megawatt Ngā Awa Purua geothermal station. In December 2008 Mighty River Power’s 100 megawatt Kawerau geothermal ...
Budget Debate 15 Jun 2010
JOHN BOSCAWEN ... on Labour’s scheme, and he quoted the fact that the windfall profits to the Government, in terms of its ownership of Mighty River Power and Meridian Energy, would be over a billion dollars. Dr Smith has said, up and down the country and on television, ...
Carter Observatory Act Repeal Bill
Third Reading 26 May 2010
JOHN BOSCAWEN ... So I guess it is an ill wind that blows no good. There are the Government’s three main generators, including Mighty River Power, which generates electricity on the Waikato River. It does not make any carbon emissions, so it does not incur any ...
Smart Meters (Consumer Choice) Bill
First Reading 5 May 2010
CLARE CURRAN ... of State-owned electricity companies came before the committee for their financial reviews: Meridian Energy, Genesis, Mighty River Power, Transpower, and the Electricity Commission. I asked every one of them the same question, and I got virtually the same ...
Resource Management (Requiring Authorities) Amendment Bill
First Reading 17 Mar 2010
LOUISE UPSTON ... the Taupō economy afloat during these hard times, and we can look at whether it has been electricity generators for Mighty River Power, or Contact Energy’s geothermal developments. The East Taupō arterial road and Taupō bypass are also significant ...
Electricity Industry Bill
Third Reading 23 Sep 2010
Dr KENNEDY GRAHAM ... back into retailing, and it will reconfigure some of the assets of the three State-owned enterprises—Meridian Energy, Mighty River Power, and Genesis—amongst themselves. The Finance and Expenditure Committee heard 91 submissions. Many opposed provisions ...
In Committee 21 Sep 2010
Hon DAVID PARKER ... desire to control power prices, because that is all it needed to do. It could have said to Genesis, or Meridian, or Mighty River Power, or all of them, exactly what the Labour Government had already said to Transpower, which was that it did not want as ...
Second Reading 20 Jul 2010
JOHN BOSCAWEN ... the taxpayer, as they are State-owned enterprises, and two are privately owned. The three State-owned enterprises are Mighty River Power, Genesis Energy, and Meridian Energy. The make-up of those companies is fundamental to this bill, which is why I ...
BRENDON BURNS ... under this bill but so too did other experienced operators in the electricity industry, such as Doug Heffernan from Mighty River Power I thought that was an extraordinary thing. It was brave for a man who is still in the employment, effectively, of the ...
First Reading 15 Dec 2009
Hon DAVID PARKER ... invest in upgrades only if its customers agreed that the upgrade was necessary. It was a nonsense. Meridian Energy, Mighty River Power, Genesis, TrustPower, and Contact Energy would never agree. As a consequence, TrustPower never had any confidence that ...
JOHN BOSCAWEN ... carbon tax. So for Trustpower it represents a massive profit windfall. That is equally true for Contact Energy, Mighty River Power, and Meridian Energy. Meridian Energy and Mighty River Power are Government-owned, so one might justify this provision ...
DAVID BENNETT ... from achieving any of the results that people want to see happen. This bill is good. I think of the good people of Mighty River Power in Hamilton who work hard to provide the electricity supply for the good people of Auckland. We have the ability to ...
Energy and Resources
Electricity Market—Performance 9 Dec 2009
Hon GERRY BROWNLEE ... the Tekapo A and Tekapo B power stations from Meridian Energy to Genesis Energy; Meridian Energy, Genesis Energy, and Mighty River Power undertaking long-term hedge contracts for supply; requiring the establishment of a liquid hedge market; allowing lines ...
Climate Change Response (Moderated Emissions Trading) Amendment Bill
In Committee 25 Nov 2009
JOHN BOSCAWEN ... tax, and that increase in the price of electricity is a windfall gain. In other words, Contact Energy, TrustPower, Mighty River Power, and Meridian Energy, which all own hydro stations, will be able to charge more for their electricity and it will not ...
Estimates Debate - In Committee
In Committee 5 Aug 2009
Hon GERRY BROWNLEE ... you, when she has confused one and 100, I doubt whether she will come to the answer very easily. The company is Mighty River Power, which is worth thinking about. It is a company that without any direction from the Government, and without getting ...
Electricity (Renewable Preference) Repeal Bill
Second Reading 17 Dec 2008
Hon DAVID PARKER ... have just finished one—130 megawatts—this year. There is another one of 200 megawatts already under construction by Mighty River Power. That is next year’s demand growth. Contact Energy has also committed to another large facility at Te Mihi. That is ...
Hon TREVOR MALLARD ... they generally can do—and as Todds are experts at doing—to screw the system and get some pretty good returns on it. Mighty River Power is probably New Zealand’s most expert company at building geothermal plants. It managed to get its latest project at ...
JEANETTE FITZSIMONS ... consent process just fine. So Contact Energy is building renewable generation even though it is a fossil generator. Mighty River Power has hydro and a lot of geothermal, is into a lot more geothermal, and is not proposing any fossil power stations. ...
In Committee 17 Dec 2008
Hon DAVID PARKER ... technology renewable projects are already being built by, in respect of geothermal generation, Contact Energy, Mighty River Power, and up north by Top Energy. Additional wind farms are also being planned for construction by a wide range of ...
Third Reading 17 Dec 2008
Hon DAVID PARKER ... generation. We have substantial quantities available, and we already know that it is economically sound because Mighty River Power and Contact Energy are both heavily investing in geothermal generation in order to bring those renewable projects to ...
Reinstatement of Business 9 Dec 2008
Mighty River Power Limited
Electricity Industry Reform Amendment Bill 2007
Second Reading 5 Sep 2008
PETER BROWN ... convention. Our members want to investigate the feasibility of amalgamating the three State-owned generators—that is, Mighty River Power, Meridian Energy, and Genesis Power. New Zealand First members want to give consideration to the feasibility of ...
In Committee 5 Sep 2008
LINDSAY TISCH ... geothermal fuel - type: Todd Energy at Ngāwhā, 2008, had 13 megawatts; Contact Energy at Wairākei had 20 megawatts; Mighty River Power at Kawerau, in 2008, had 90 megawatts; Meridian Energy at Manapōuri, 2007, which is hydro, had 130 megawatts. With ...
Third Reading 5 Sep 2008
PETER BROWN ... days. Indeed, as I said earlier, there are people in New Zealand First who want us to look at amalgamating Genesis, Mighty River Power, and Meridian Energy into the old ECNZ, if for no other reason than that there would be only one head office and it ...
HONE HARAWIRA ... Purua, which 5 months ago announced a new $450 million geothermal power station in partnership with Tauhara North, Mighty River Power, and the Sumitomo Corporation, and which is planning a second operation at Rotokawa that will generate enough energy to ...
Debate on Crown Entities, Public Organisations, and State Enterprises - In Committee
In Committee 14 May 2008
CHRIS AUCHINVOLE ...ealand’s energy flowing. It takes bulk electricity from where it is generated, by companies such as Meridian Energy and Mighty River Power, to 35 lines companies and directly to 10 big users. Electricity is delivered whenever and wherever it is needed, 24/7, ...
Commerce
Competition Law—Crown Companies 14 May 2008
Hon LIANNE DALZIEL ... The Government’s decision will see State-owned enterprises and Crown research institutes other than Meridian Energy, Mighty River Power, and Genesis Energy treated as interconnected bodies in terms of the Act. This is a very positive announcement in terms ...
State Owned Enterprises
State-owned Enterprises—Asset Ownership 17 Oct 2007
Gerry Brownlee ... it is not a core asset; if it is a core asset, why did his party decide to sell the some of the geothermal assets of Mighty River Power to Tūwharetoa—
Gerry Brownlee ... asset, what is a geothermal field producing electricity; if it is a core asset, why did his Government sell some of Mighty River Power’s geothermal capacity to Ngāti Tūwharetoa Geothermal Assets Ltd; and can he explain why it is OK if his party sells ...
State-owned Enterprises—Diversification 17 Oct 2007
Gerry Brownlee Can the Minister explain why his Government sold Southern Hydro, why it sold off some of Mighty River Power’s geothermal assets, why it sold AgVax Developments, why it sold numerous State farms, and why it sold numerous State ...
Electricity (Disconnection and Low Fixed Charges) Amendment Bill
Third Reading 10 Apr 2008
Hon LUAMANUVAO WINNIE LABAN ... to healing and reconciliation. The contractor who cut the power and the electricity provider, Mercury Energy and Mighty River Power, were invited by the family to Mrs Muliaga’s funeral. The family said they had only love for the contractor, not hate. ...
First Reading 26 Jul 2007
TE URUROA FLAVELL ...ōna kawenga ki ngā nohoanga tāngata, ki te hapori, ki tēnei whenua hoki. I aro ake mātau ki ngā kōrero a te rangatira o Mighty River Power, a Doug Heffernan, me tana kī mai i te 25 o Pipiri, arā, “Ko ngā take rawakore he raru ka pā ki te nohoanga tāngata, ā, ...
... responsibilities it has to consumers, to the community, and to the country. We were interested in a statement that Mighty River Power boss, Doug Heffernan, made on 25 June, when he said: “Financial hardship is a social problem and it requires a co ...
General Debate 13 Jun 2007
Hon Dr NICK SMITH ... owned enterprise, spying on ordinary New Zealanders. We saw the awful tragedy of another State-owned enterprise, Mighty River Power, with totally inappropriate systems for cutting off the power of New Zealanders, and we saw another State-owned ...
Urgent Debates - Mercury Energy—Disconnection of Electricity Supply
Mercury Energy—Disconnection of Electricity Supply 12 Jun 2007
SUE BRADFORD ... power bill in instalments. That, apparently, was not acceptable to Mercury Energy, or to the State-owned enterprise Mighty River Power—a State-owned enterprise that made record profits last year. Despite another payment being due in 2 days and two ...
GERRY BROWNLEE ... not being followed—not being picked up or exercised. I think it should be sheeted home directly to the board of Mighty River Power, which is the parent company of Mercury Energy. Why has the Prime Minister—who is, after all, the shareholders’ prime ...
... from hospital, when clearly her health was in a crisis state. We asked why the guidelines that Mercury Energy and Mighty River Power already had in place were not followed in that case, and perhaps in many others that we have not heard about. We asked ...
State-Owned Enterprises (AgriQuality Limited and Asure New Zealand Limited) Bill
In Committee 20 Jun 2007
CHRISTOPHER FINLAYSON ... Act, is to be workable and effective competition. Where is the problem with State-owned enterprises competing? Mighty River Power, Genesis Power, and Meridian Energy compete. It is a fundamental point that the Minister really has to address. It was ...
Second Reading 15 May 2007
LINDSAY TISCH ... in the energy sector, we have State-owned enterprises that compete. In the North Island we have Genesis Energy and Mighty River Power on the Waikato River, and in the South Island we have Meridian Energy. These three State-owned enterprises are State ...
First Reading 3 Apr 2007
TARIANA TURIA ... of Transmission Holdings Ltd; Mavis Mullins, a director of Landcorp Farming Ltd; Sir Paul Reeves, a director of Mighty River Power Ltd; Dr Mere Roberts, a director of the Institute of Environmental Science and Research Ltd; Tem Hall, deputy chair of ...
Injury Prevention, Rehabilitation, and Compensation Amendment Bill 2006
Second Reading 20 Feb 2007
PETER BROWN ... with due respect. The National Party would sell TVNZ, Air New Zealand, Meridian Energy, Genesis Energy, and Mighty River Power, and we know that it would privatise, at least, the Accident Compensation Corporation employers’ account and the ...
Appointments - Representation Commission
Representation Commission 21 Nov 2006
Dr PITA SHARPLES ... across every sector of Māori development, including fisheries, Māori land, the Federation of Māori Authorities, Mighty River Power, the Capital and Coast District Health Board, and the Department of Social Welfare. Alongside Whetumārama he possesses ...
Auckland Issues
Auckland Issues—Minister's Statement 16 Nov 2006
Hon JUDITH TIZARD ...’s power supply. The Energy Commission will make a draft decision by Christmas. We are strengthening our energy supply. Mighty River Power is supplying an extra 40 megawatts of power to Auckland from next month. Genesis E3P will have an extra 380 megawatts ...
Climate Change Response Amendment Bill
Third Reading 9 Nov 2006
Hon Dr NICK SMITH ... energy, to be able to meet this country’s electricity needs without building another coal-fired power station, as Mighty River Power, one of this Government’s State-owned enterprises, is promoting in Whangarei. We also say that we need to provide an ...
General Debate 8 Nov 2006
Hon Dr NICK SMITH ... our country’s history. But she is saying we will be carbon neutral. Right now, one of the Government’s own companies, Mighty River Power, is proposing to build a 320-megawatt—absolutely giant—coal-fired power station in Whangarei. That power station will ...
Prime Minister
State-owned Assets, Sales—Shares 14 Jun 2011
Hon BILL ENGLISH ... special dividends mostly paid by Meridian Energy, we see that those flows were less than $100 million per year for Mighty River Power, Solid Energy, and Genesis Energy. When we add Meridian’s special dividends, it puts the number up, on average, to ...
State-owned Assets, Sales—Shares 8 Jun 2011
Hon David Cunliffe I seek leave to table a compilation of data from the company accounts of Meridian Energy, Mighty River Power, Genesis Energy, and Solid Energy, which shows they—
State-owned Energy Companies—Financial Returns 6 Apr 2011
Rt Hon JOHN KEY ... Authority to investigate—and it is doing so. But that price hike took place with three primary players: Genesis, Mighty River Power, and Meridian Energy. They are all 100 percent State-owned enterprises. The prices in the electricity sector are ...
State-owned Enterprises—Shareholder Returns and Average Bond Rate 5 Apr 2011
Rt Hon JOHN KEY ... return over the 9 years that Labour was in office for the three State-owned enterprises in the energy sector—Genesis, Mighty River Power, and Meridian Energy—was 72 percent. If gouging was happening, it was actually happening under a Government-owned ...
Kiwibank—Privatisation 26 May 2010
Hon Phil Goff Will the Prime Minister rule out privatising Mighty River Power?
Energy Strategy—Carbon Neutrality 12 Dec 2006
Jeanette Fitzsimons ... the building of the three big new fossil-fuelled power stations that are imminent: Contact Energy’s Ōtāhuhu C, Mighty River Power’s Marsden B coal station, and Genesis Energy’s gas station in Rodney, which, together with the almost built Huntly ep3 ...
Climate Changes Issues, Forestry, Environment, Ministers—Confidence 8 Nov 2006
Hon Dr Nick Smith Why have her Ministers supported the decision of the Government company Mighty River Power to proceed with a 320-megawatt coal-fired power station in Whangarei—a plant with a life of 40 years, over which it ...
Energy and Climate Change—Prime Minister's Speech 7 Nov 2006
Hon Dr Nick Smith ... money in 2002 on a new oil-fired power station at Whirinaki, to support the decision by the State-owned enterprise Mighty River Power to build a 320-megawatt coal-fired power station in Whangarei, but to reject the Dobson hydro scheme on the West Coast ...
Climate Change Issues
Emissions Trading Scheme—Impact 2 Jul 2008
Hon Dr Nick Smith ... change his bill to address the $1 billion - plus in windfall profits to the State through Meridian Energy and Mighty River Power, and the $22 billion that the Government will make from the sale of emission permits, in light of yesterday’s ...
Emissions Trading Scheme—State-owned Enterprises 26 Jun 2008
Hon Dr NICK SMITH Will the emissions trading scheme provide a windfall profit to State-owned enterprises Meridian Energy and Mighty River Power; if so, how much weight should be given to the sustainable business council report funded by them to lobby MPs to hurry ...
Greenhouse Gas Emissions—Fossil Fuel Usage 6 Dec 2006
Hon Dr Nick Smith ... next year, of which 410 megawatts, or 80 percent, will be non-renewable—notably Genesis Energy’s ep3 at Huntly, and Mighty River Power’s Southdown gas extension? Who is telling the truth: his ministry or the Prime Minister?
Hon Dr Nick Smith ... to underwrite the massive ep3 thermal station at Huntly, and to support the application by State-owned enterprise Mighty River Power for a 320-megawatt coal station, and at the same time to block and delay renewable energy projects like Project Aqua ...
Hon DAVID PARKER ... first is a press release dated 18 August 2004 in which a former National Party energy spokesman welcomed the proposed Mighty River Power Marsden B coal station.
Carbon Neutrality—Prime Minister's Statement 21 Nov 2006
Hon Dr Nick Smith Can he explain how the Prime Minister’s goal of carbon neutrality fits with the Government’s State-owned enterprises Mighty River Power, which wants to proceed with a 320 megawatt coal-fired power station at Whangarei, and Genesis Energy, which wants to ...
Hon DAVID PARKER As far as I am aware, Mighty River Power has never sought or been given governmental approval for Marsden B.
Hon DAVID PARKER With respect, I am not sure that the member represents that correctly, because my understanding is that Mighty River Power’s CEO Doug Heffernan said at that select committee that Marsden B is being prepared only as a back-up option should ...
Climate Change Policies—Greenhouse Gas Emissions 10 Oct 2006
Hon DAVID PARKER Mighty River Power has pursued a Resource Management Act consent; it has not pursued the commissioning or the re-commissioning of that ...
Corrections
Corrections, Department—Ministerial Confidence 2 Aug 2006
Hon MITA RIRINUI ... Construction was involved in that. We understand that the cost of that programme was in excess of $1 million. Mighty River Power is another example. Would the member like me to go on?
Energy
Electricity—Thermal Generation 26 Aug 2008
Hon DAVID PARKER ... of it renewable. It includes about 500 megawatts of geothermal, a renewable baseload source of renewable electricity. Mighty River Power is also building more geothermal. These investors have confidence in a renewable future. In contrast, of course, we ...
Energy—Supply 12 Mar 2008
Hon DAVID PARKER ... implement the New Zealand Energy Strategy as we head towards 90 percent renewable electricity. Of course, last week Mighty River Power—
Hon DAVID PARKER No, it is not—rubbish! Of course, last week Mighty River Power announced it has resource consent for, and is proceeding with, another 130 megawatt, renewable, geothermal power ....
Resource Management Act—Meridian Energy 29 Mar 2007
Hon DAVID PARKER ... evidenced by the 88 percent increase in wind capacity being built this year alone. Further evidence is found in the Mighty River Power geothermal projects being built. We have already amended the Resource Management Act, indeed, advancing the priority ...
Electricity—Renewable Resources 20 Mar 2007
Hon DAVID PARKER ... It is not just that Meridian Energy is carbon neutral and Contact Energy is spending $1.8 billion on renewables; Mighty River Power has cancelled plans to develop the Marsden B power station. The Government’s energy and climate change policies are ...
Electricity Generation—Thermal Stations 20 Feb 2007
Hon DAVID PARKER ... that Meridian Energy is now disavowing and is saying is incorrect. The second report was in the on 11 February, when Mighty River Power said that in light of the Government’s energy and climate change policies it is unlikely to go ahead with the Marsden B ...
Electricity—Pricing 12 Oct 2006
Metiria Turei What is the Minister’s view of today’s High Court decision that the climate change effects of Mighty River Power’s Marsden B coal-fired power station project may be considered in granting its consent—a decision that overturns a ...
Electricity Costs—Senior Citizens 25 Jul 2006
Hon Dr Nick Smith ... even Government sweetheart Colin James, and even the Government’s own power companies like Meridian Energy, Mighty River Power, and Genesis Energy all damning the Government’s energy policies, will the Minister accept that this area is just a ...
Electricity—Transmission Grid 21 Jun 2006
Hon DAVID PARKER ... note in response this comment from Dr Doug Heffernan, a transmission specialist and the chief executive officer of Mighty River Power, who on Monday in the Waikato Times said of Transpower: “So the issues you see now really come from decisions that were ...
Debate on Crown Entities, Public Organisations, and State Enterprises - In Committee
In Committee 16 May 2006
Mighty River Power
Hon Pete Hodgson And Mighty River Power.
Hon CLAYTON COSGROVE —and Mighty River Power, as my colleague Mr Hodgson points out, for the solid work they have done in progressing decent countermeasures. Again,...
GORDON COPELAND ... the debate on the State-owned enterprises I want to talk about the ownership of Genesis Energy, Meridian Energy, and Mighty River Power. United Future believes that the current view of never selling any of the State-owned enterprises and retaining 100 ...
Resource Management (Climate Protection) Amendment Bill
First Reading 29 Mar 2006
JEANETTE FITZSIMONS ... of greenhouse gas emissions would be legally possible as the Act stands today. That was tested last year with Mighty River Power’s application to convert the Marsden B old oil-fired plant—which has never run—to coal. Marsden B is a 20-year-old ...
Address in Reply 15 Nov 2005
PETER BROWN ... repeat to the member: there will be no further strategic asset sales. That means we will be keeping Meridian Energy, Mighty River Power, Genesis Power, Transpower, TVNZ, New Zealand Post, and Kiwibank. There will be no “for sale” notice on them. We will ...