2011-10-18 12:26:03 // Deirdre Robert
// The Idealog Blog
As a coal producer, Solid Energy isn’t a company you’d automatically attribute to environmental stewardship. After all, it is collaborating with Bathurst Resources on plans to mine the Denniston plateau on the West Coast of the South Island. But the company does devote some of its efforts to the development of biodiesel and it has recently found success with a wastewater treatment process that recycles biodiesel glycerol and produces 'green' renewable energy.
2011-06-20 13:27:34 // Sustain Team
// The Idealog Blog
It seems almost every other month there’s a new case of a mining company seeking consent to mine picturesque Kiwi locations. Bathurst Resources, an Australian company backed by Chinese money, is the latest company to seek resource consent for land in New Zealand, this time eyeing up a new coal mine on the Denniston plateau on the West Coast of the South Island. And as can be expected, there is strong opposition to the open cast mine, in spite of the proposed economic benefits to the West Coast community, put forward by Bathurst.
