New Zealand Green News

Power project making waves Friday December 4, 08:18 AM Todd Energy has become a cornerstone investor in a tidal power plant company. It has taken a 30 percent holding in Crest Energy, with the option of extending that up to...

A badly burned boy has been pulled to safety after an explosion in a shipping container in Hamilton, accelerant ignited by cigarette Read More Phil Tataurangi, Brad Heaven, Brad Iles and Steven Alker are all set to progress to the...

New Zealand is preparing for some rare spring visitors. More than 100 icebergs that were first spotted off the coast of Macquarie Island, an Australian territory around 900 miles south east of Tasmania, are now thought to be only 200...

After years of debate New Zealand is set to have a working emissions trading scheme (ETS) in 2010. The centrepiece of climate change policy will come into force after National and the Maori Party today reached a deal to amend...

Overnight the Guardian's Fred Pearce issued a scathing attack on New Zealand's record on reducing greenhouse gas emissions and claimed we were unfairly trading on our clean, green image. The story has generated some heated debate already and experts have...

Another sorry chapter in emissions farce 4:00 AM Tuesday Nov 17, 2009 It is rare that all-party select committees of Parliament cannot agree on some improvements to a Government bill even if some parties continue to vote against it. The...

New Zealand — Ships in the south Pacific Ocean have been alerted that groups of icebergs believed to have split off Antarctic ice shelves are drifting north toward New Zealand, officials said Tuesday. The alert comes three years after cold...

Exploration well to be drilled in Taranaki Basin Monday November 23, 01:25 PM A drilling rig is expected to reach the Albacore exploration area in the northern Taranaki Basin by tomorrow to drill an exploration well...Three separate target zones that...

Agreement was reached today on a new organisation to manage South Pacific fisheries. Fisheries Minister Phil Heatley announced a new convention text had been agreed which would create a regional fisheries management organisation to manage non-highly-migratory fisheries in the high...