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The latest charts and data on Election 2023 - Newsroom
Aug 20, 2023 · The latest charts and data on Election 2023. In the lead-up to this year’s general election, Newsroom has curated a page of charts and graphics with the key information you need about the state of the campaign. The charts update every hour with the latest available data on the polls and political donations. by Marc Daalder 20/08/2023.
Emissions Trading Scheme: NZ's carbon market explained
Mar 22, 2021 · Photo: Lynn Grieveson. Climate Change Minister James Shaw rang the NZX bell in Wellington to mark the start of the first ever auction of carbon credits under the Emissions Trading Scheme. By noon that day, some 40 participants had submitted bids for 11 million credits and a total of 4.75 million were auctioned off at a price of $36 per unit.
Auckland's historic flooding explained in five charts - Newsroom
Jan 30, 2023 · Auckland's historic flooding explained in five charts. The epic deluge and subsequent flooding across Auckland broke just about every record in the book. Newsroom has pulled the data together to show just how unprecedented this storm was. At one stage on Friday, more rain fell in 50 minutes than the city usually sees in all of January.
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Behind the heritage ministry’s infamous $500,000 funding of Narrative Muse. Announcing the shortlist of the grooviest writers residency award in NZ. Book reviews, award-winning essays, author interviews and more - dig into the best of NZ writing at …
Fighting a war on climate change - Newsroom
Oct 4, 2024 · Photo: Getty Images. As a senior military officer with decades of experience, Tom Middendorp was used to thinking about the climate. “Every military analysis starts with an analysis of weather and terrain, because weather and terrain dictates what we can do or what we cannot do,” Middendorp tells Newsroom during a visit to New Zealand.
Meet PIPE-i, the robotic survey vehicle on a mission
Oct 10, 2024 · Meet PIPE-i. PIPE-i is a six-wheeled robotic vehicle designed to survey and inspect hard-to-reach places such as culverts, pipes and tunnels. It enhances data collection with all-terrain 3D scanning and 360-degree photo capture, providing consistent, repeatable results in a digital format, meaning better decisions can be made, all with minimal ...
Meridian to commission NZ's biggest battery to avert more black …
Meridian and Genesis, two of the country’s biggest gentailers, are both reporting their full-year results to the sharemarket this week – and it comes under the shadow of black-outs on the coldest night of the year. Barclay said that in his view, the electricity industry had failed its customers in several respects that night – most ...
Ngāi Tahu unleashes over lakes - Newsroom
Issues with the lakes occurred because of systemic failures by multiple agencies, the Ngāi Tahu’s feedback said. Contributing factors included the controversial tenure review process for ending Crown pastoral leases, management of the leases themselves, and “RMA plans”. Agencies weren’t looking at the wider picture and weren’t ...
Our water problem in 15 worrying charts - newsroom.co.nz
Apr 27, 2021 · A state-of-the-nation water report had some tough lessons for the Government as it embarked on its massive reform of the three waters sector. Here is the problem in 15 charts. Sewage overflows into our oceans are just one of the challenges facing the Government as it tries to reform our water infrastructure.