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Nick Smith grilled over ETS
Farmers, foresters and others questioned the integrity of the Kyoto Protocol and the theory of global warming at an ETS meeting in Blenheim.

Fuel price rises eat into tax cuts
Petrol prices will rise tomorrow as the Govt's ETS hits households and businesses already facing rising costs.

Petrol and electricity prices to rise with ETS
Many power and petrol companies have announced exactly how much more their customers will pay from Thursday.

PM admits public face hefty ETS bill
The Government estimates the ETS will add 1c a kilowatt hour or 5 per cent to the cost of electricity.

Greenstone Energy pumps up the volume
Greenstone Energy has taken delivery of its first shipment of oil with 700,000 barrels delivered at the Marsden Point refinery.

BP calls on Kiwi smarts in bid to plug oil spill
BP is considering two ideas raised by Kiwis on how to plug the Gulf of Mexico oil spill, one of the biggest ecological disasters in history.

NZ oil shares fall as Tui well comes up short
NZ oil shares have fallen as the latest Tui well has come up short.

Pilot project to burn NZ coal underground
Solid Energy says that gas produced from burning coal deep underground in Waikato will help boost our energy security.

<i>Liam Dann</i>: Gulf spill may put dampener on NZ oil drilling
Is the attention New Zealand is getting from foreign oil prospectors accelerating?

Oil giant warns against legal backlash on deepwater drilling
Oil giant ExxonMobil says new rules to curb drilling should be held off until the lessons from the Gulf of Mexico disaster are fully understood.

BP directors call for chairman's head
Senior BP directors want their chairman sacked over his mishandling of the Gulf catastrophe.