Kiwi Point Quarry’s consent to extend the existing area of the quarry highlights a problem all regions now face in this country when it comes to our aggregate resources.
Last month Wellington City Council approved recommendations on a District Plan Change to extend Holcim’s Kiwi Point Quarry located close to Wellington city....
Current legislation is killing the development of mining in this country unless central government fulfils its promise to modernise the increasingly anachronistic Resource Management Act.
Key policy recommendations in the From Red Tape to Green Gold, the second in a series of two reports on our minerals sector authored by research...
The effort by Taranaki local authorities to streamline regulations for the region’s extractive industries has come too late for at least one small quarry owner. BY NEIL RITCHIE.
Late last year New Plymouth District Council general manager (strategy) Liam Hodgetts told an oil and gas conference in the city that the region’s four...
