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Watt to avoid conflict issues

Mayor Tracy Hicks seems to think that it can be done, but what do you think about having

A long-term director of fertilizer co-operative Ravensdown

(which is involved in investigations a multi-million dollar lignite-to-fertilizer plant for the Gore district)

preparing to take his place on the Gore District Council.

Read the report (if you will)
and weep!

More (coal) smoke screen

"A Wellington think tank claims that the proposed lignite-to-urea fertilizer plant by the government coal miner, Solid Energy, is expected to get more than $500 million subsidies over the first 20 years of its carbon debt."

"The $1.4 billion plant collectively developed by farmer-owned fertilizer company Ravensdown and Solid Energy will be the second-biggest emitter of greenhouse gases after the coal-fired Huntly power station.:"

"CEO Conor English said: "Our information is that the plant would be carbon compliant from day one, and logic tells you that when you are producing the product locally it must be better than producing it on the other side of the world and shipping it to New Zealand."

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