stockton Archive

  • frog

    Greens support Buller District hydro



    It’s a bit lazy, but Kevin Hague’s press release says all I want to say! The Green Party’s West Coast-based MP Kevin Hague today lodged a submission in support of a proposed hydro scheme on the Stockton Plateau. Hydro Developments Ltd has applied for consent to divert water contaminated by mining from the Stockton area into reservoirs [...] read more
    January 30, 2009 2:42 pm - 16 Comments
  • Metiria Turei

    The writing’s on the dam wall



    With consents granted to the Arnold hydro scheme (45MW), and now a new proposal for a dam on coal-mining land on the Stockton plateau (25MW), the primary rationale for Meridian’s Mokihinui Hydro Proposal (MHP) has been removed. Meridian’s proposed MHP cites these benefits: The Mokihinui Hydro Proposal would: produce between 310 and 360 gigawatt [...] read more
    December 1, 2008 3:22 pm - 58 Comments