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Solid Energy

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Type: Company

Name: Solid Energy

First reported 14 hours ago - Updated 45 mins ago - 4 reports

Labour accuses lobbyists of helping Solid Energy dupe MPs

Labour has accused Lobbyists for colluding with Solid Energy, Treasury and Cabinet Ministers to dupe the MPs and hide facts about the falling SOE.Troubled Solid Energy had spent $50,000 on advice of the lobbyists on ways to provide evidence before a parliamentary ... [Published Topnews.in - 45 mins ago]

Entities: Solid Energy, Saunders Unsworth Ltd, Mark Ford, Clayton Cosgrove

First reported 8 hours ago - Updated 6 hours ago - 8 reports

Changes for Solid Energy's briquette plant

Solid Energy is handing over operations at its $NZ29 million ($A24.89 million) lignite briquette production plant in Mataura to GTL Energy as the financially stricken state-owned coal miner looks to exit the investment.The two companies have been in discussions ... [Published NineMSN Finance - 6 hours ago]

Entities: Solid Energy, lignite, Diesel

First reported 8 hours ago - Updated 8 hours ago - 2 reports

Solid Energy spent big on lobbyists

Nearly $50,000 was spent by cash strapped Solid Energy on advice from lobbyists on how to give evidence before a parliamentary select committeeLabour MP Clayton Cosgrove says Bill English and Tony Ryall's office colluded with Solid Energy management, ... [Published Newstalk ZB - 8 hours ago]

Entities: Solid Energy, Clayton Cosgrove, Saunders Unsworth Ltd

First reported 8 hours ago - Updated 8 hours ago - 1 reports

Lobbyists told Solid Energy to keep quiet ()

Documents reveal lobbyists' advice to Solid Energy bosses to say as little as possible in response to MPs' questioning about its financial woes. ... [Published Yahoo!Xtra - 8 hours ago]

Entities: Solid Energy, Corroboration

First reported 9 hours ago - Updated 9 hours ago - 1 reports

Collusion hid truth on Solid Energy

Clayton COSGROVESpokesperson for SOEs 20 June 2013 $ $ EDIA STATEMENT New documents show that Bill English and Tony Ryall’s offices colluded with Solid Energy management, Treasury and lobbyists to hide the truth about the failing SOE from New Zealanders, ... [Published Scoop - 9 hours ago]

Entities: Solid Energy, Tony Ryall, Collusion, Clayton Cosgrove, Bill English (NZ Politician)

First reported 12 hours ago - Updated 12 hours ago - 1 reports

Sky Television plc

PRESS DIGEST-New Zealand newspapers - June 20

WELLINGTON, June 20 (Reuters) - Following are some of the lead stories from New Zealand metropolitan newspapers on Thursday.Stories may be taken from either the paper or Internet editions of the papers.Reuters has not verified these stories and does not ... [Published TrustLaw - 12 hours ago]

Entities: Sky Television plc, Solid Energy, Mighty River Power Ltd, Russel Norman

First reported Jun 19 2013 - Updated Jun 19 2013 - 2 reports

Solid Energy

Solid Energy paid $50k for advice on dealing with politicians

Failing electricity company Solid Energy spent almost $50,000 getting advice on how to deal with politicians, ONE News can reveal. Figures obtained ... ... [Published Big News Network - Jun 19 2013]

Entities: Solid Energy

First reported Jun 18 2013 - Updated Jun 19 2013 - 2 reports

Briquetting plant statement today

A decision about the future of Solid Energy's pilot briquetting plant near Mataura is expected to be announced today.The future of the recently completed $29 million lignite-to-briquette plant has been uncertain since March, when Solid Energy chairman ... [Published Otago Daily Times - Jun 19 2013]

Entities: Solid Energy, lignite, Mark Ford

First reported Jun 17 2013 - Updated Jun 17 2013 - 1 reports

Cloud hangs over lignite plant

The future of Solid Energy's Mataura briquetting plant appears uncertain, with an announcement expected today.In February, Solid Energy said it would take a back seat at the plant when an Australian-based energy company leased it and took over operat ... [Published Timaru Herald - Jun 17 2013]

Entities: Solid Energy, lignite, New Zealand, Bill English (NZ Politician)

First reported Jun 17 2013 - Updated Jun 17 2013 - 1 reports

Jobs on line at cement works

(New Zealand) -- Jobs are on the line at Westport's Cape Foulwind Cement Works.Holcim (New Zealand) told staff today it was about to begin a review of the works' staffing structure."With the current business challenges we're all facing, we're reviewing ... [Published Aggregate Research Industries - Jun 17 2013]

Entities: Holcim Ltd, Layoffs, Oamaru (New Zealand)

First reported Jun 14 2013 - Updated Jun 14 2013 - 1 reports

CPW welcomes Solid Energy staff

A group of former Solid Energy NZ staff initially seconded for design work on the Central Plains Water (CPW) scheme, have joined CPW as permanent employees.The expertise of the group was engaged late last year to project manage the $144m first stage of ... [Published Voxy.co.nz - Jun 14 2013]

Entities: Solid Energy, Competent, Construction, Irrigation, Layoffs

First reported Jun 13 2013 - Updated Jun 13 2013 - 1 reports

The Solid Energy saga

The collapse of state-owned coal producer Solid Energy has been well documented in recent months.The company has gone from being prepared for sale under the Government's mixed-ownership model to barely surviving as it awaits a decision on whether it will ... [Published Otago Daily Times - Jun 13 2013]

Entities: Solid Energy, Deloitte, COMU, Gabriel Makhlouf, Don Elder

Quotes

"While we continue to believe the lignite briquettes produced with GTL Energy's technology have good potential, given our current status, Solid Energy does not see itself as the long-term owner of the plant."

Changes for Solid Energy's briquette plant [Published NineMSN Finance - 6 hours ago]

"We don't need our precious Southland farmland dug up to prop up experimental and unsafe technology that uses dirty lignite coal and contributes to climate change. Moreover, GTL wants to use this Southland plant so it can set up a similar plant in Indonesia. Why should we be the guinea pigs?"

Coal Action Network on Solid Energy:lignite technology dodgy [Published Scoop - 6 hours ago]

Fred Schulte, GTL Energy chief executive, says being able to keep the plant running "will underpin the deployment of the GTLE Technology globally, in particular the large-scale project under development in Indonesia" . The two companies set up a joint venture after GTL Energy's June 30, 2012, balance date, where GTL would undertake operations at the plant to process...

Solid Energy leaves Mataura briquette operation with GTL Energy [Published National Business Review - 6 hours ago]

"Ultimately the long-term future of the Mataura plant will be dictated by the local market, however the immediate near term sees a continued production phase, and product sales" Schulte said. - $ Fairfax NZ News

Mataura briquette plant to continue operations [Published stuff.co.nz - 7 hours ago]

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Labour accuses lobbyists of helping Solid Energ... [Published Topnews.in - 45 mins ago]
Changes for Solid Energy's briquette plant [Published NineMSN Finance - 6 hours ago]
Coal Action Network on Solid Energy:lignite tec... [Published Scoop - 6 hours ago]
Solid Energy leaves Mataura briquette operation... [Published National Business Review - 6 hours ago]
Solid Energy leaves Mataura briquette plant ope... [Published Yahoo! Xtra Business - 7 hours ago]
Solid Energy leaves Mataura briquette plant wit... [Published Scoop - 7 hours ago]
Mataura briquette plant to continue operations [Published stuff.co.nz - 7 hours ago]
Plans to sell Mataura plant [Published Southland Times - 7 hours ago]
Southland Briquette Plant update [Published Scoop - 8 hours ago]
Solid Energy spent big on lobbyists [Published Newstalk ZB - 8 hours ago]
Solid Energy spent big on lobbyists () [Published Yahoo!Xtra - 8 hours ago]
Lobbyists told Solid Energy to keep quiet () [Published Yahoo!Xtra - 8 hours ago]
Lobbyists told Solid Energy to keep quiet [Published Yahoo!Xtra - 8 hours ago]
Collusion hid truth on Solid Energy [Published Scoop - 9 hours ago]
PRESS DIGEST-New Zealand newspapers - June 20 [Published TrustLaw - 12 hours ago]
PR spin costs Solid Energy $48k [Published Big News Network - 12 hours ago]
PR spin costs Solid Energy $48k [Published New Zealand Herald - 14 hours ago]
Solid Energy paid $50k for advice on dealing wi... [Published Big News Network - Jun 19 2013]
Solid Energy paid $50k for advice on dealing wi... [Published ONE News - Jun 19 2013]
Briquetting plant statement today [Published Otago Daily Times - Jun 19 2013]
Decision on plant's future delayed [Published Southland Times - Jun 18 2013]
Aotearoa Workers Solidarity Movement: Up A Migh... [Published Scoop - Jun 17 2013]
Cloud hangs over lignite plant [Published Timaru Herald - Jun 17 2013]
Jobs on line at cement works [Published Aggregate Research Industries - Jun 17 2013]
Government should adopt jobs report - EPMU [Published Yahoo!Xtra - Jun 16 2013]
Miner's consents 'still OK' [Published stuff.co.nz - Jun 14 2013]
Big loss no power play, says smelter [Published Southland Times - Jun 14 2013]
CPW welcomes Solid Energy staff [Published Voxy.co.nz - Jun 14 2013]
The Solid Energy saga [Published Otago Daily Times - Jun 13 2013]
Jobs on line at cement works [Published Otago Daily Times - Jun 13 2013]

Blogs

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Solid Energy: Elder thrown overboard [Published Allvoices Indonesia - Mar 19 2013] Like piranhas, the media have surrounded former Solid Energy chief executive Don Elder and are nibbling away in a frenzy. Although he had neither a private jet nor an entourage of underage Moroccan nightclub dancers, the ex-king coal has attracted... ...
Bryce Edwards: Political round-up: The Solid En... [Published Allvoices Indonesia - Mar 18 2013] The problem is that even getting shot of them doesn't always get the taxpayers off the hook. The painful lessons from both Air New Zealand and KiwiRail suggest that 'too big to fail' doesn't just apply to multi-national banks. The... ...
Civil servants to be above the law [Published Allvoices Indonesia - Mar 13 2013] March 2013 Solid Energy has tanked and, as we have recently discovered, much of its losses can be attributed to attempts to diversify into the field of alternative energy. The SOE threw tens of millions of dollars at biofuels, fuel... ...
Alternative energy, a nice idea but... [Published Allvoices Indonesia - Mar 13 2013] March 2013 Solid Energy has tanked and, as we have recently discovered, much of its losses can be attributed to attempts to diversify into the field of alternative energy. The SOE threw tens of millions of dollars at biofuels, fuel... ...
Bryce Edwards: Political round-up: Political an... [Published Allvoices Indonesia - Mar 08 2013] The inability of the current Solid Energy Chair, Mark Ford, to answer questions about how his company lost the taxpayers $389 million is infuriating opposition MPs on the commerce select committee...And then there's the case this week of ex- Educatio ...

Press Releases

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GTL Energy And Solid Energy Announce First Prod... [Published Financial Services - Mar 05 2013]