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Officials opposed $60m Fletcher grant before ministers approved it (opens the original)
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Official advice to the Government opposed providing help to Fletcher Building’s Golden Bay Cement factory in Whangārei, for which ministers approved a $60 million grant in July. Officials and independent analysis by Deloitte acknowledged that New Zealand’s Emissions Trading Scheme (ETS) punishes domestic cement production, now reduced to Fletcher’s lone facility, with carbon costs not paid by industry abroad, giving imported cement an advantage. Despite this, four government agencies viewed the
Sand Safaris owes $2m, grim outlook for creditors, including MBIE (opens the original)
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Far North tour company Sand Safaris is in liquidation. Sand Safaris, known for beach tours and dune boarding in the Far North, owes creditors nearly $2 million, including $469,000 owed on a tourism-related loan from the Ministry of Business, Innovation and Employment. Repayment prospects are very slim. The company is in liquidation and liquidators KPMG estimated the company’s assets are worth just $6800. The liquidators’ first report was filed with the Companies Register on Monday. Brent Chalmer
Government risks $21.5m on gas explorer still seeking $50m (opens the original)
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The Government has handed out another $36 million from its Gas Security Fund, this time with a focus on exploration that, if successful, would still be years off production. Multinational oilfield services company Schlumberger’s New Zealand operation was awarded a $14.5m contract to create a basin-scale 3D dataset for the offshore, using seismic technology and artificial intelligence. The data will be free for two years for industry to use and aimed at spurring further exploration. In addition,
ACC paid former boss $160,630 to leave three months early (opens the original)
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Former ACC chief executive Megan Main departed at the end of July with a $160,630 payout to leave early, and nearly $10,000 for her legal fees. Photo / NZME Departing Accident Compensation Corporation boss Megan Main collected a $160,630 exit payment when she left the cost-plagued accident insurer between three and four months before her contract was due to end in November. The publicly owned Accident Compensation Corporation (ACC) also paid nearly $10,000 (including GST) for Main’s “actual and
'Extremely difficult, costly and risky': Foodstuffs split (opens the original)
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A grocery expert told the Commerce Commission in 2021 that breaking up Foodstuffs was an option but was also sceptical it would go far in denting grocery prices. Yesterday, the National Party joined New Zealand First in a plan, post-election, to break up the Foodstuffs co-operatives. The parties cast the plan as New Zealand’s best hope of adding a third competitor to the country’s highly concentrated grocery sector and of wrestling down prices. New Zealand First would legislate to force separati
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