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Solid Energy

Index Solid Energy

Solid Energy was the largest coal mining company in New Zealand and is a state owned enterprise of the New Zealand Government. [1]

55 relations: Acid mine drainage, Administration (law), Bill English, Center for Media and Democracy, China, Christchurch, Climate change, Coal, Coal mining, Coke (fuel), Cypress Mine, Dollar, Don Elder, Edendale, New Zealand, Electricity generation, Energy in New Zealand, Fonterra, Glenbrook, New Zealand, Government of New Zealand, Greenwashing, Huntly, New Zealand, India, Japan, Lignite, Mataura, Metal, Mining, Mt William North Mining Project, New Zealand dollar, New Zealand Emissions Trading Scheme, New Zealand Steel, Nick Smith (New Zealand politician), Nicky Hager, Ohai, Paparoa National Park, Parliamentary Commissioner for the Environment, Pellet fuel, Pike River Coal, Pike River Mine disaster, Powelliphanta, Resource consent, Rolleston, New Zealand, Save Happy Valley Coalition, Southland, New Zealand, State-owned enterprise, State-owned enterprises of New Zealand, Steel, Stockton Mine, Stockton, New Zealand, Sunday Star-Times, ..., Talley's Group, Waikato, Waimangaroa, Wellington, West Coast, New Zealand. Expand index (5 more) »

Acid mine drainage

Acid mine drainage, acid and metalliferous drainage (AMD), or acid rock drainage (ARD) is the outflow of acidic water from metal mines or coal mines.

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Administration (law)

As a legal concept, administration is a procedure under the insolvency laws of a number of common law jurisdictions, similar to bankruptcy in the United States.

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Bill English

Sir Simon William English (born 30 December 1961) is a former New Zealand politician of the National Party who served as the 39th Prime Minister of New Zealand from 2016 to 2017.

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Center for Media and Democracy

The Center for Media and Democracy (CMD) is a progressive nonprofit watchdog and advocacy organization based in Madison, Wisconsin.

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China

China, officially the People's Republic of China (PRC), is a unitary one-party sovereign state in East Asia and the world's most populous country, with a population of around /1e9 round 3 billion.

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Christchurch

Christchurch (Ōtautahi) is the largest city in the South Island of New Zealand and the seat of the Canterbury Region.

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Climate change

Climate change is a change in the statistical distribution of weather patterns when that change lasts for an extended period of time (i.e., decades to millions of years).

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Coal

Coal is a combustible black or brownish-black sedimentary rock usually occurring in rock strata in layers or veins called coal beds or coal seams.

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Coal mining

Coal mining is the process of extracting coal from the ground.

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Coke (fuel)

Coke is a fuel with a high carbon content and few impurities, usually made from coal.

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Cypress Mine

The Cypress Mine is a proposed extension to the open cast coal mine the Stockton Mine’s operational area, to the east into the Upper Waimangaroa Mining Permit area, on the West Coast of New Zealand.

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Dollar

Dollar (often represented by the dollar sign $) is the name of more than twenty currencies, including those of Australia, Canada, Hong Kong, Jamaica, Liberia, Namibia, New Zealand, Singapore, Taiwan, and the United States.

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Don Elder

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Edendale, New Zealand

Edendale is a town in the Southland region of New Zealand's South Island.

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Electricity generation

Electricity generation is the process of generating electric power from sources of primary energy.

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Energy in New Zealand

Despite abundant natural resources and a relatively small population, New Zealand is a net importer of energy, in the form of petroleum products.

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Fonterra

Fonterra Co-operative Group Limited is a New Zealand multinational dairy co-operative owned by around 10,500 New Zealand farmers.

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Glenbrook, New Zealand

Glenbrook is a rural and industrial area in the Franklin district of New Zealand.

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Government of New Zealand

The Government of New Zealand (Te Kāwanatanga o Aotearoa), or New Zealand Government (ceremonially referred to as Her Majesty's Government in New Zealand on the Seal of New Zealand), is the administrative complex through which authority is exercised in New Zealand.

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Greenwashing

Greenwashing (a compound word modelled on "whitewash"), also called "green sheen", is a form of spin in which green PR or green marketing is deceptively used to promote the perception that an organization's products, aims or policies are environmentally friendly.

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Huntly, New Zealand

Huntly (Rahui-Pōkeka) (population) is a town in the Waikato district and region of the North Island of New Zealand.

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India

India (IAST), also called the Republic of India (IAST), is a country in South Asia.

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Japan

Japan (日本; Nippon or Nihon; formally 日本国 or Nihon-koku, lit. "State of Japan") is a sovereign island country in East Asia.

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Lignite

Lignite, often referred to as brown coal, is a soft, brown, combustible, sedimentary rock formed from naturally compressed peat.

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Mataura

Mataura is a town in the Southland region of the South Island of New Zealand.

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Metal

A metal (from Greek μέταλλον métallon, "mine, quarry, metal") is a material (an element, compound, or alloy) that is typically hard when in solid state, opaque, shiny, and has good electrical and thermal conductivity.

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Mining

Mining is the extraction of valuable minerals or other geological materials from the earth, usually from an orebody, lode, vein, seam, reef or placer deposit.

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Mt William North Mining Project

The Mt William North Mining Project is a proposed coal mine planned for the West Coast Region of New Zealand.

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New Zealand dollar

The New Zealand dollar (sign: $; code: NZD, also abbreviated NZ$) (Tāra o Aotearoa) is the currency and legal tender of New Zealand, the Cook Islands, Niue, the Ross Dependency, Tokelau, and a British territory, the Pitcairn Islands.

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New Zealand Emissions Trading Scheme

The New Zealand Emissions Trading Scheme (NZ ETS) is a partial-coverage all-free allocation uncapped highly internationally linked emissions trading scheme.

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New Zealand Steel

New Zealand Steel Limited is the owner of the Glenbrook Steel Mill, the steel mill located 40 kilometres south east of Auckland in Glenbrook, New Zealand.

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Nick Smith (New Zealand politician)

Nicolas Rex Smith (born 24 December 1964) is a New Zealand politician and a member of the New Zealand Parliament as a National Party MP.

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Nicky Hager

Nicky Hager (born 1958) is a New Zealand investigative journalist.

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Ohai

Ohаi is a town in the Southland region of New Zealand's South Island, 65 kilometres northwest of Invercargill and 25 kilometres west of Winton.

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Paparoa National Park

Paparoa National Park is on the west coast of the South Island of New Zealand.

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Parliamentary Commissioner for the Environment

The Parliamentary Commissioner for the Environment (Te Kaitiaki Taiao a Te Whare Pāremata in Māori) is an independent Officer of the New Zealand Parliament appointed by the Governor-General on the recommendation of the House of Representatives for a five-year term under the Environment Act 1986.

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Pellet fuel

Pellet fuels (or pellets) are biofuels made from compressed organic matter or biomass.

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Pike River Coal

Pike River Coal Ltd is a mining company that was listed on the New Zealand and Australian stock exchanges.

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Pike River Mine disaster

The Pike River Mine disaster was a coal mining accident that began on 19 November 2010 in the Pike River Mine, northeast of Greymouth, in the West Coast region of New Zealand's South Island.

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Powelliphanta

Powelliphanta is a genus of large, air-breathing land snails, pulmonate gastropods in the family Rhytididae, found only in New Zealand.

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Resource consent

A resource consent is the authorisation given to certain activities or uses of natural and physical resources required under the New Zealand Resource Management Act (the "RMA").

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Rolleston, New Zealand

Rolleston is the seat and largest town in the Selwyn District, in the Canterbury region of New Zealand's South Island.

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Save Happy Valley Coalition

The Save Happy Valley Coalition (SHVC) is an environmental activist movement formed with the express purpose of preventing the Cypress mine, an open cast coal mine on the West Coast of New Zealand, from proceeding.

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Southland, New Zealand

Southland (Murihiku) is New Zealand's southernmost region.

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State-owned enterprise

A state-owned enterprise (SOE) is a business enterprise where the state has significant control through full, majority, or significant minority ownership.

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State-owned enterprises of New Zealand

State-owned enterprises (SOEs) in New Zealand are registered companies listed under Schedules 1 and 2 of the State-Owned Enterprises Act 1986.

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Steel

Steel is an alloy of iron and carbon and other elements.

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Stockton Mine

Stockton Mine, on the Stockton Coal Field, is New Zealand's largest opencast mining operation.

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Stockton, New Zealand

Stockton is a former settlement in the northwestern South Island of New Zealand in the West Coast region.

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Sunday Star-Times

The Sunday Star-Times is a New Zealand newspaper published each weekend by the Fairfax group in Auckland.

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Talley's Group

Talley's Group Limited is a privately owned, New Zealand-based agribusiness company that provides seafood, vegetable and dairy products.

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Waikato

Waikato is a local government region of the upper North Island of New Zealand.

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Waimangaroa

Waimangaroa is a small town located on the West Coast of New Zealand.

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Wellington

Wellington (Te Whanganui-a-Tara) is the capital city and second most populous urban area of New Zealand, with residents.

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West Coast, New Zealand

The West Coast (Te Tai Poutini) is a region of New Zealand on the west coast of the South Island, it is one of the more remote and most sparsely populated areas of the country.

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References

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Solid_Energy

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