Mentions of Solid Energy New Zealand Limited in New Zealand Parliament debates
Solid Energy New Zealand Limited has been mentioned in 68 parliamentary debates since November 2005.
Local Government Borrowing Bill
Second Reading 6 Sep 2011
BRENDON BURNS ... stated as being part of the Government’s agenda in respect of the assets that the Crown holds in Air New Zealand and Solid Energy. Of course, there are other assets in the wider public domain, and there are prospects for such alternatives to ...
Labour
Mine Safety—Underground Mines 4 Aug 2011
Hon Damien O’Connor Can she give an assurance to this House that dangerous ventilation issues at Solid Energy’s Spring Creek Mine will be monitored by a mine inspector with the necessary skills, despite the fact that the one ...
Hon KATE WILKINSON I remind the member that the primary responsibility for workplace health and safety at the Solid Energy mine remains with Solid Energy. I can also say that Solid Energy was independently audited post the Pike River tragedy ...
Supplementary Estimates - Imprest Supply Debate
Imprest Supply Debate 21 Jun 2011
Dr RUSSEL NORMAN ... nucleus of the growing clean energy sector in New Zealand. All of them have some renewal generation experience. Even Solid Energy now has a biofuel operation, although it is otherwise involved in coal. These companies have the size and critical ...
General Debate 15 Jun 2011
Dr JACKIE BLUE ... 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 assets such as schools ...
Budget Debate 8 Jun 2011
CHARLES CHAUVEL ... 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 ... 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 Telecom was sold by ...
Taxation (Annual Rates and Budget Measures) Bill
Third Reading 20 May 2011
BRENDON BURNS ... 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 is absolutely essential that those stay ...
Budget Statement - Budget Debate
Budget Debate 19 May 2011
Hon BILL ENGLISH ...corporation">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 2012.
General Debate 18 May 2011
GARETH HUGHES ... The trouble is lignite is the most inefficient and amongst the most polluting types of coal there are. Nevertheless, Solid Energy and others are pushing their proposals to mine it, ignoring the critical report from the Parliamentary Commissioner ...
General Debate 4 May 2011
Hon NANAIA MAHUTA ... term solution that will help them. The Government wants to sell Meridian Energy, Mighty River Power, Genesis Power, Solid Energy—
Debate on Prime Minister’s Statement 10 Feb 2011
PHIL TWYFORD ... State-owned enterprises 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 ...
Debate on Prime Minister’s Statement 8 Feb 2011
Rt Hon JOHN KEY ... 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, as a minimum, retain 51 ...
Dr KENNEDY GRAHAM ... our children. Are we too blind to see what is going on? The classic example of the insanity of what we are doing is Solid Energy and its Government-backed plans to utilise lignite in Southland, the lowest grade of coal that is possible to mine. ...
Hon DAMIEN O’CONNOR ... the selling off into private hands of our State-owned enterprises, starting with the electricity sector—notably, Solid Energy. I say to members—National members have been too scared to say it—that Landcorp will be next, of course. David ...
CHRIS AUCHINVOLE ... to the election. I said I had written to the then National spokesperson on finance, Mr John Key, and proposed that Solid Energy shares be made available for West Coasters to buy. The member opposite will probably remember the meeting. It was the ...
CHRIS AUCHINVOLE ... on the Opposition side of the House do not like mining. I know they do not like success. The problem, of course, for Solid Energy, as far as a Labour Government goes, is that not only does Solid Energy do mining but it does it successfully: $600 ...
Insurance (Prudential Supervision) Bill
Second Reading 29 Jul 2010
AARON GILMORE ... them in continuing to operate. I think that is a really good thing, particularly for big State-owned enterprises like Solid Energy, KiwiRail, and Transpower, as well as other big entities operating in the infrastructure sector. I think it is highly ...
Estimates Debate - In Committee
In Committee 27 Jul 2010
KEVIN HAGUE ... Developments scheme is being opposed in the Environment Court by two State-owned enterprises, Meridian Energy and Solid Energy. Both of those companies seem to have pretty spurious reasons for opposing the scheme, and I am inclined to suspect ...
Debate on Crown Entities, Public Organisations, and State Enterprises - In Committee
In Committee 29 Jun 2010
Hon CLAYTON COSGROVE ... Kiwis all around are not silly—is that they already own Genesis Power, Meridian Energy, and others such as Kiwibank, Solid Energy, and the like. Kiwis already own those and they have already paid for them. In some cases, Kiwis have paid for them ...
Solid Energy Ltd
Hon LIANNE DALZIEL It is a pleasure to contribute to this debate with particular focus, in this aspect, on Solid Energy. It was quite interesting because, in preparing for this debate this afternoon, I decided to google three words: solid,...
Finance
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 ... 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?
State-owned Enterprises—Requests for Additional Capital 23 Jun 2010
Hon David Cunliffe When did the Minister tell the Minister of Energy and Resources, Gerry Brownlee, about Solid Energy chairman John Palmer’s intention to call for the partial sale of Solid Energy during a speech last Thursday?
Hon BILL ENGLISH I cannot recall every discussion I have had with Minister Brownlee about Solid Energy, but I assure the member there are regular discussions because Mr Brownlee is a very active Minister of Energy and ...
Hon Clayton Cosgrove When John Palmer told him he was going to call for the partial sale of Solid Energy, did he tell the chairman that the comments were “out of line” and “stepping over the mark”, or was the Minister of ...
Hon Clayton Cosgrove Will the Minister rule out ever selling some or all of Solid Energy?
Hon David Cunliffe If the Minister is not ruling out possible future partial privatisation of Solid Energy, in what respect did John Palmer “go too far”?
State-owned Assets—Government Policy on Sales 22 Jun 2010
Hon David Cunliffe Why did he not tell Gerry Brownlee that both he and the Prime Minister had discussed John Palmer’s comments that Solid Energy should be partially privatised before they were made public? Was it to try to cover up that the Government is now ...
Hon BILL ENGLISH The member, I am sure, understands that if an entity like Solid Energy has plans to expand, it will need access to capital. Those are matters that we would expect a growing organisation ...
Statutes Amendment Bill 2009
Second Reading 25 May 2010
Hon NANAIA MAHUTA ... injunction on the sale of State-owned enterprises, and also to the Waikato-Tainui injunction in terms of the sale of Solid Energy. All of that was brought about by a minor technical amendment. My colleague Steve Chadwick raised specific issues in ...
Budget Statement - Budget Debate
Budget Debate 20 May 2010
Dr RUSSEL NORMAN ... debt to justify a “For Sale” sign over our State-owned assets, such as Air New Zealand, Television New Zealand, Solid Energy, Meridian Energy, Genesis, New Zealand Post, and the Accident Compensation Corporation. John Key blames tax ...
General Debate 21 Apr 2010
KEVIN HAGUE ... a worthy goal, but the consents have been appealed, most notably by two State-owned enterprises, Meridian Energy and Solid Energy. In both cases the grounds of the appeals look spuriously weak. Understandably, members of the public have come to the ...
General Debate 24 Mar 2010
JACQUI DEAN ... numbers to the current figure of 123 birds. I do not see those figures in this somewhat unbalanced fact sheet. The Solid Energy goat control programme—that is, pest control by Solid Energy—was an initiative driven by Solid Energy to provide ...
Prime Minister
State-owned Assets, Sales—Shares 14 Jun 2011
Hon BILL ENGLISH ... 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 about $300 ...
State-owned Assets, Sales—Shares 8 Jun 2011
Hon David Cunliffe ... to table a compilation of data from the company accounts of Meridian Energy, Mighty River Power, Genesis Energy, and Solid Energy, which shows they—
Mining in Conservation Areas—Prime Minister’s Statements 16 Mar 2010
Hon JOHN KEY ... responsibilities. That balance of course is always possible. It reminds me of a quote I saw recently, in relation to Solid Energy and the Stockton mine, which said: “This case clearly shows that it is possible to balance the economic concerns of ...
Personal Explanations - Mining in Conservation Areas—Clarification of Quotation
Mining in Conservation Areas—Clarification of Quotation 17 Sep 2009
METIRIA TUREI ... a very surprising source. In 2006 the person concerned”—that is me—“issued a press release about the requirement for Solid Energy to move 250 Augustus snails to make way for the expansion of Solid Energy’s Stockton mine. That person said ‘This case ...
Energy and Resources
Energy Companies, Greenhouse Gas Emissions—Lignite 14 Jul 2011
Dr KENNEDY GRAHAM Does she agree with the Prime Minister, who said “companies like Solid Energy are growth companies and we want them to expand in areas like lignite conversion”?
Dr Kennedy Graham ... expect the Advisory Group on Green Growth to advise how we can transition to a low-carbon economy, does she regard Solid Energy’s estimated annual carbon emissions of 10 million to 20 million tonnes from the lignite project—on top of our current ...
Hon Dr NICK SMITH The first thing is that the Solid Energy proposal is for quite a small briquette plant. If we put that briquette plant into context, we see that over the last ...
Dr Kennedy Graham ... Minister reconcile the statement made by Minister English that the Government would look favourably at helping fund Solid Energy’s multimillion-dollar lignite projects in Southland as long as they were commercially and environmentally robust, with ...
Hon Dr NICK SMITH The member takes the Minister of Finance’s comments quite out of context. They were not in the form of any subsidy for Solid Energy but, rather, to people’s making a choice to invest in that company. In terms of the broader question of New Zealand’s “c...
Greenhouse Gas Emissions—Effect of Proposed Lignite Mining Projects 17 Feb 2011
Dr KENNEDY GRAHAM By how many tonnes would Solid Energy’s proposed lignite projects in Southland increase New Zealand’s gross greenhouse gas emissions in 2020?
Hon GERRY BROWNLEE I understand that this morning Solid Energy informed the Commerce Committee that depending on the scale of technology used, gross emissions could be 10 million to ...
Dr Kennedy Graham If by achieving compliance the Minister is referring to carbon capture and storage, as indeed Solid Energy identified as one of the means this morning, can the Minister name one suitable reservoir to store carbon dioxide in ...
Hon GERRY BROWNLEE I am not able to give operational answers on behalf of Solid Energy, but I would say that we have introduced an emissions trading scheme that will enable carbon compliance.
Dr Kennedy Graham I raise a point of order, Mr Speaker. I was not asking the Minister to speak on behalf of Solid Energy. I was asking the Minister whether he could name one reservoir that would engage in carbon capture and storage. I am ...
Mr SPEAKER ... knowledge about what various issues may be. The Minister referred to the matter as being an operational matter for Solid Energy. I cannot dispute that with the Minister.
Dr Kennedy Graham ... is adequate carbon capture and storage in Southland does not fall solely within the operational responsibility of Solid Energy but within his ministerial portfolio.
Hon GERRY BROWNLEE Well, it may help if I simply said that there is no proposal yet from Solid Energy to engage in a particular type of lignite recovery, and therefore no indication yet of how carbon emission may be ...
Dr Kennedy Graham ... Commissioner for the Environment’s statement that under this Government’s emissions trading scheme, companies such as Solid Energy are likely to receive subsidies of millions of dollars a year from New Zealand taxpayers to develop products from low-gr...
Mining—Underground Coal Gasification Pilot Plant 15 Jun 2010
PESETA SAM LOTU-IIGA What announcements has Solid Energy made recently regarding underground coal gasification?
Hon GERRY BROWNLEE Last week Solid Energy announced its plans to commission early next year a $22 million underground coal gasification pilot plant in the ...
Hon GERRY BROWNLEE ... to make an important contribution to Huntly. She also praised the significant environmental contribution made by Solid Energy by creating wetlands, and its initiatives in fencing waterways. I welcome Ms Mahuta to the energy spokesperson role ...
Mining—Minerals Stocktake in Conservation Areas 16 Sep 2009
Hon GERRY BROWNLEE ... goal from a very surprising source. In 2006 the person concerned issued a press release about the requirement for Solid Energy to move 250 Augustus snails to make way for the expansion of Solid Energy’s Stockton mine. That person said “This case ...
Private Security Personnel and Private Investigators Bill
Third Reading 15 Sep 2010
KEITH LOCKE ... has been falsified. There are also problems with private investigators being outsourced by State agencies such as Solid Energy, which outsourced private investigation through Thompson and Clark Investigations, and infiltrated the Save Happy ...
In Committee 9 Sep 2010
Hon David Cunliffe What about Solid Energy?
First Reading 28 Apr 2009
KEITH LOCKE ... the observance by some private investigators. For example, in 2006 the Save Happy Valley Coalition, which protested Solid Energy’s proposed West Coast coalmine in order to protect the pristine natural environment, discovered a digital video camera ...
Debate on Budget Policy Statement 25 Mar 2009
Hon PHIL GOFF ... to save 60 jobs at Fisher and Paykel Appliances, but I ask Mr English why the 60 workers who were laid off today at Solid Energy will not have the option of a 9-day working fortnight because State-owned enterprises are not included under the ....
Environment
Air Quality, National Environmental Standard—Effect of Changes and Delays 17 Jun 2010
David Clendon ... in the Sunday Star-Times of 13 December 2009, that the Government intended to strengthen air quality standards, and Solid Energy was mistaken if it believed the review would water down standards?
Carbon Neutral Public Service Programme—Ministry for the Environment Greenhouse Gas Emissions 11 Mar 2009
Charles Chauvel ... trading scheme to the New Zealand Institute of Economic Research, an analysis that major emitters, including Solid Energy, funded last year, and that reached the astonishing conclusion that taxpayers rather than emitters should bear the ...
Electricity (Renewable Preference) Repeal Bill
First Reading 17 Dec 2008
JEANETTE FITZSIMONS ... more coal-fired stations to be built as a result of this bill. Well, I am sorry, but Don Elder does. Don Elder from Solid Energy is very focused on building coal-fired power stations in Southland and on the West Coast. Without any indication, at ...
Energy (Fuels, Levies, and References) Biofuel Obligation Repeal Bill
Third Reading 17 Dec 2008
Hon GERRY BROWNLEE ... fuel would be available for many of the activities in New Zealand that require the burning of diesel. I point to Solid Energy’s approach. It has an experiment involving a fishing fleet in Wellington. That fishing fleet is 100 percent fuelled by ...
Second Reading 16 Dec 2008
Hon GERRY BROWNLEE ... them able to sell their product in this country. I point to some extraordinarily exciting things like the deal that Solid Energy has done with the Stark fishing fleet in Nelson. Fishing boats out there are 100 percent fuelled by bio-diesel. That ...
Reinstatement of Business 9 Dec 2008
Solid Energy New Zealand Limited
Solid Energy New Zealand Limited
Budget Debate 27 May 2008
Dr ASHRAF CHOUDHARY ... was a flip-flop. He also goes around the country talking about asset sales. In March 2005 he said that Landcorp and Solid Energy would be sold, and that there was no reason for the State to own Air New Zealand. Then in April 2008 the same leader ...
New Zealand-China Free Trade Agreement Bill
First Reading 15 May 2008
Dr WAYNE MAPP ... up the price of virtually every export commodity. Our dairy farmers are directly wealthier as a result of that. Even Solid Energy, in one mine—Stockton—will generate $600 million of revenue this year. Not one bit of that coal goes into a dirty coal-f...
Debate on Prime Minister’s Statement 12 Feb 2008
Hon DAMIEN O’CONNOR ... Members of that electorate had seen the sell-off of their homes through Housing New Zealand, the threatened sale of Solid Energy, and the threatened sale of Landcorp, and the electorate had one of the highest rates of unemployment that we had seen ...
Copyright (New Technologies) Amendment Bill
Second Reading 23 Oct 2007
NANDOR TANCZOS ... the risk. This sort of measure can easily be abused, and has been abused in other jurisdictions. The recent case of Solid Energy attempting to injunct a satirical annual report put together by opponents of its Happy Valley coal mine is a case in ...
State Owned Enterprises
Meridian Energy—Mill Creek Project 29 May 2008
Hon TREVOR MALLARD ... owned enterprises. One would have seen that by the repeated evidence from Dr Don Elder attacking the Government, using Solid Energy money.
Crown Land—Protection 9 Oct 2007
Hon Dr MICHAEL CULLEN ... assets and we understand that” . At the same time, of course, he described a policy to sell down part of Landcorp and Solid Energy as “very timid”. It appears that the war in the National Party is not over.
State-owned Enterprises—Private Investigators 26 Jun 2007
Keith Locke What is the exact nature of the response that the Minister has received from the Solid Energy board since he phoned the chairman, John Spencer, on 28 May to express his concern about spying; and has he seen ...
Hon ANNETTE KING I am advised that Solid Energy is to hold a board meeting in early July, so the board meeting that was promised has not yet been held. But there has ...
State-Owned Enterprises (AgriQuality Limited and Asure New Zealand Limited) Bill
Third Reading 21 Jun 2007
KEITH LOCKE ... commercial criteria operating. We have seen the problem with some State-owned enterprises recently. For example, the Solid Energy State-owned enterprise has gone really over the top in spying on protesters. The Minister Trevor Mallard had to ...
General Debate 13 Jun 2007
Hon Dr NICK SMITH
... excuses from this Government. We saw over the adjournment the failure of Government State-owned enterprises. We had Solid Energy New Zealand, a Government State-owned enterprise, spying on ordinary New Zealanders. We saw the awful tragedy of another State-owned ...
... excuses from this Government. We saw over the adjournment the failure of Government State-owned enterprises. We had Solid Energy New Zealand, a Government State-owned enterprise, spying on ordinary New Zealanders. We saw the awful tragedy of ...
Energy
Biofuels—Mandatory Obligation 17 Apr 2008
Hon DAVID PARKER ... multibillion-dollar tallow to bio-diesel factory with a capacity of 60 million litres per annum. Additionally, a Solid Energy subsidiary has oilseed rape planted, which it expects will produce more than 10 million litres of bio-diesel after the ...
Clean-coal Technology—Progress 20 Mar 2008
Gerry Brownlee ... magazine editorials, or was it a criticism of Harry Duynhoven, or of any one of the Government’s own agencies—Solid Energy, Genesis Energy, the Ministry of Research, Science and Technology, Crown Minerals—and the many other organisations ...
Hon DAVID PARKER There are more complexities to this issue than that member obviously understands. We are supporting Solid Energy, Genesis Energy, and other companies to do their bit to advance the work that needs to be done before carbon capture ...
Gerry Brownlee ... to have such a Dickensian view about clean-coal technology, when the Government’s own State-owned enterprise, Solid Energy, is investigating coal-seam gas, coal gasification, coal to liquid, and carbon capture and storage—all with a focus to ...
Energy Safety—Reports 11 Oct 2007
Hon DAVID PARKER ... and, further, a lot of the criticisms that we hear from National go very close to criticising the profitability of Solid Energy. Now, I know that in recent weeks National has said that it will flog off State-owned enterprises, but it really is ...
Carbon Neutrality—Diesel from Lignite Coal 23 Aug 2007
JEANETTE FITZSIMONS How will Solid Energy’s plan to produce around 50,000 barrels of diesel per day from Southland’s lignite coal contribute to achieving the ...
Hon DAVID PARKER ... when used in an internal combustion motor, so from that point of view the member is correct. I would also note that Solid Energy, through its subsidiary Biodiesel New Zealand, is currently producing 1 million litres of bio-diesel a year, and today ...
Peter Brown Noting those answers, will the Minister be categoric and tell us whether he shares the view that the announcement by Solid Energy—that it can access enough lignite to support a world-scale liquid fuels plant for more than 40 years—is the best news ...
Jeanette Fitzsimons ... under the New Zealand Energy Strategy, or what action will he recommend his colleagues the shareholding Ministers in Solid Energy take, to ensure that a State-owned enterprise cannot sabotage his Government’s goals to address climate change?
Hon DAVID PARKER Solid Energy is at only a pretty preliminary stage of this, and it is well aware that in order for a project of this magnitude to ...
Carbon Footprint—Reduction 1 Mar 2007
Hon DAVID PARKER Yes, I can. Solid Energy is making a $2 million investment in clean-coal technology development in Australia as part of its push towards carbon ...
Climate Change Response Amendment Bill
Second Reading 25 Oct 2006
PETER BROWN
... and the Yanks, the Americans, are pouring in billions of dollars. For the member’s information, Genesis Energy and Solid Energy New Zealand Ltd are spending significant sums of money in Australia, on research there, to address the problems of coal. I am told ...
... and the Yanks, the Americans, are pouring in billions of dollars. For the member’s information, Genesis Energy and Solid Energy New Zealand Ltd are spending significant sums of money in Australia, on research there, to address the problems of ....
Debate on Crown Entities, Public Organisations, and State Enterprises - In Committee
In Committee 16 May 2006
Solid Energy New Zealand
Solid Energy New Zealand
GORDON COPELAND ... we were told by Dr Don Brash that it would not sell anything either, except for a few small farms and a wee bit of Solid Energy. The ACT party’s view is to sell them all and just go in for straight market economics and so on. United Future has a ...
Conservation
Mining in Conservation Areas—Ministerial Decision-making 23 Mar 2010
Hon KATE WILKINSON ... Act required the Minister of Conservation and the Minister of Energy and Resources to determine whether to allow Solid Energy to remove snails from the Stockton plateau. This was required in February 2006 under the then Labour Government to ...
Biodiversity Strategy—National Goals 3 May 2006
Metiria Turei How, then, does the Minister reconcile these goals with his decision to permit Solid Energy to transfer 250 Powelliphanta augustus snails and then mine their natural habitat on Mount Augustus, given that this ...
Hon CHRIS CARTER ... to allow the snails to be moved. However, we are requiring a larger mitigation package than was originally offered by Solid Energy.
Metiria Turei Will Solid Energy be prevented from mining the endangered snails’ last remaining natural habitat until the relocation described by the ...
General Debate 3 May 2006
METIRIA TUREI ... of committed environmentalists who, since January of this year, have been highlighting the devastation intended by Solid Energy’s plans for an open-cast mine. The mine will consist of two open-cast pits covering half of the 265 hectare site. The ...
Climate Change Issues
Emissions Trading Scheme—State-owned Enterprises 26 Jun 2008
Jeanette Fitzsimons ... of Economic Research report on the economic effects of carbon pricing, when that report was funded mainly by Solid Energy—New Zealand’s largest coalminer?
Hon DAVID PARKER ... member is exactly right. Some of the loudest critics of this scheme have been State-owned enterprises in the form of Solid Energy. The Greenhouse Policy Coalition gives itself a name that would have people think it was advocating progressive ...
Electricity—Emissions 23 Aug 2007
Metiria Turei Can the Minister see any reason at all for Genesis to build a new gas-fired power station, or for that matter for Solid Energy to build a new lignite-fired power station when, according to the New Zealand Energy Strategy, there is around 4,500 ...
Greenhouse Gas Emissions—Kyoto Protocol 7 Dec 2006
Hon Dr MICHAEL CULLEN Solid Energy is a partner in that kind of research. Clearly it holds realistic prospects. The Government has never ruled out the ...
Kyoto Protocol—Solid Energy Mines 28 Mar 2006
METIRIA TUREI What quantity of greenhouse gases will be emitted into the atmosphere as a result of Solid Energy’s mines at Stockton and Happy Valley in Westland, and what are the implications of this for New Zealand’s commitments ...
Tariff (Trans-Pacific Strategic Economic Partnership) Amendment Bill
In Committee 22 Mar 2006
CHRIS AUCHINVOLE ... as associate spokesperson on energy (mining). Ten days ago I was a participant in the induction safety course at Solid Energy’s Spring Creek Mine on the West Coast. The safety aspect of the occasion was not without significance, as there had ...
Debate on Prime Minister’s Statement 14 Feb 2006
JEANETTE FITZSIMONS ... is a place called Happy Valley. It is happy still, in its untouched state, but destined to be very unhappy indeed if Solid Energy gets its way and turns the whole valley into a huge, open-cast coalmine. That is about the starkest trade-off we could ...
Address in Reply 23 Nov 2005
METIRIA TUREI
... within any significant habitat of an endangered species.
On the West Coast there is also an application by Solid Energy New Zealand to engage in a purposeful process to render the largest New Zealand land snail entirely extinct. The “Augustus” snail—that...
... within any significant habitat of an endangered species.
On the West Coast there is also an application by Solid Energy New Zealand to engage in a purposeful process to render the largest New Zealand land snail entirely extinct. The “August...
Taxation (Annual Rates and Urgent Measures) Bill
First Reading 16 Nov 2005
JOHN KEY ... accounting standards. I argued with Dr Cullen that that cost would be $1.7 billion, nearly the equivalent of taking Solid Energy and Landcorp and giving them away to anybody for zero. Michael Cullen looked at me, grunted a few things, did not ...
Dr the Hon LOCKWOOD SMITH ... his Labour colleagues’ political bribe of giving New Zealand’s graduates $2 billion. It is like giving the graduates Solid Energy and Landcorp Farming combined. It just gives away a massive $2 billion asset to people who are some of our highest ...