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The fight for iron sands: the bitter battle to protect New Zealand’s sea-floor riches

Government’s push to fast-track projects in NZ stirs fears deep-sea mining off Taranaki, long opposed by the community, could go ahead

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Concerns as new oil well operator rises from the ashes of liquidated Tamarind

The same executives who ran Malaysian-owned firm Tamarind Resources into the ground, leaving the government with a half-billion dollar clean-up, are back operating its oil and gas permits in Taranaki again – just under a new company name. Jonathan Milne investigates.

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Developer seeks consent for offshore wind in Taranaki

The move, which comes before the Government has finalised a bespoke regulatory regime for offshore wind, has prompted the Energy Minister to seek advice from officials.

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Book of the Week: Exile on main street, Pātea

All the way through a novel set in Taranaki, reviewer David Hill kept exclaiming “Wow!”

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Offshore wind developer to seek consent in Taranaki

The Government has warned of a costly and complex process if developers act before rules for consenting offshore energy are in place.

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'A price worth paying': Counting the cost of wider local voice

Newsroom has modelling suggesting 10 smaller regional water corporation will cost communities billions more than the Govt's previous reform model. Jonathan Milne talks with seven key mayors about that trade-off.

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A more resonant occasion than Guy Fawkes

It’s time Aotearoa asks why we celebrate Guy Fawkes instead of looking to our own uncomfortable past to commemorate the lives of Taranaki Māori who suffered cruel injustices.

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Kuriger's increasingly uncertain political future raises questions for Luxon

National MP Barbara Kuriger’s blindness to her obvious conflict of interest as agriculture spokesperson has almost certainly cost her any seat at a future Cabinet table

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Black Fern brings rugby back to Poroporo

Alice Soper visits rural Bay of Plenty to see Geri Paul, one of the Black Ferns first props, who's returned to her hometown, Poroporo, and brought rugby back for the first time in 30 years

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New Zealand is touting a green hydrogen economy, but it will face big environmental and cultural hurdles

In its plan to retool the economy, the New Zealand government highlighted green hydrogen as a game-changing fuel. It can indeed be used to make climate-friendly fertilisers and steel or to power some modes of transport that aren’t suited to batteries.

The Conversation

Climate crisis ‘insufficient’ to halt oil and gas exploration, says New Zealand government

Despite declaring a climate emergency, government is in court defending decision to issue fossil fuel prospecting permits in Taranaki

The Guardian - AU

Uncovering the stories my family forgot, about a past still haunting Aotearoa New Zealand

The day my great-grandfather Andrew Gilhooly was buried at Taranaki’s Ōkato cemetery in early February 1922, Jas Higgins played the Last Post. Neither man had seen active service in the “great war” with which that ritual is most closely associated. Rather, both had served in the New Zealand wars, an…

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What’s Japanese for ‘ruck’? Turning rugby’s technical terms into an international language

The winter rugby season is well under way, with fields and sidelines ringing to the unique language of the game. Learning this vocabulary comes through playing and talking about the game, no matter if the players are in Taranaki, Twickenham, Tonga or Tokyo.

The Conversation

Hundreds of millions of dollars at stake on eve of refinery demolition

Retaining a functional oil refinery would be the least cost option for improving fuel reserves – but only if the Government moves swiftly to hold off the gas axes, writes Simon Terry.

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War changes basics of NZ fuel supplies

The Ukraine invasion and looming global fuel supply disruption undermine the contentious decision to close and demolish New Zealand’s only oil refinery.

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