The Energy Group's newsletter incorporates industry knowledge and technical expertise regarding all industry sectors within the wider energy sector - exploration, electricity, oil, gas, and mining.
Emissions Trading Tax Issues Oct 2007 Government released a paper on 24 September 2007, to address New Zealand Emissions Trading Scheme (NZETS) tax issues (Footnote 1). Appropriate tax treatment of NZ Units is important to ensure that the policy rationale underlying the design of the NZETS, in particular the policy reasons underlying the free allocation of NZ Units, are not subverted. > Read More> View PDF
Emissions Trading Scheme & Forestry, Overview & Issues Oct 2007 In this FYI we focus on Government's proposals as to the application of the Emissions Trading Scheme (ETS) to forestry. Based on our own analysis and discussions with others in the forestry sector we provide some comment and identify legal issues that will need to be worked through. > Read More> View PDF
Climate Change - the New Zealand Emissions Trading Scheme unveiled Sep 2007 Government's long awaited proposals for an emissions trading scheme for New Zealand have finally been unveiled, with the release of "The Framework for a New Zealand Emissions Trading Scheme" policy document on Thursday, 20 September 2007.
The framework document sets out the "in-principle" decisions Government has made about the introduction, objectives and core design of an emission trading scheme for New Zealand. > Read More> View PDF
Draft Crown Minerals (Minerals and Coal) Minerals Programme 2006 Jan 2006 On 10 December 2005, the Associate Minister of Energy, the Hon Harry Duynhoven, released the draft Crown Minerals (Minerals and Coal) Minerals Programme 2006 ("the Draft Programme") for the working day statutory public and iwi consultation process. > View PDF
