Westport, Oct 1 NZPA - Privately owned Hydro Developments Ltd today received the green light for its "green" power scheme using polluted water from the Stockton open cast mine in Buller.

Wellington, Sept 9 NZPA - State-owned coal miner Solid Energy has today issued force majeure notices to its international customers after it received a similar notice yesterday from Lyttelton Port of Christchurch.

Wellington, Aug 27 NZPA - State-owned resources company Solid Energy has invested $325 million in developing its business in a range of areas it believes will create significant value in the future.

Wellington, June 10 NZPA - State-owned miner Solid Energy says it will soon seek resource consents to burn Waikato coal underground, in a bid to turn 30,000 tonnes of coal into a hydrogen gas over the next two years.

Wellington, June 2 NZPA - New Zealand's biggest coal seam gas explorer, L & M Energy, has applied for prospecting rights over 2000 square kilometres of the Waikato -- thought to contain over 2 billion tonnes of coal -- with plans to burn coal underground to produce gas that can by piped to Au

Wellington, May 28 NZPA - Former ACT Party deputy leader Ken Shirley will become chief executive of the Road Transport Forum when former National Party cabinet minister Tony Friedlander retires from the lobby group in July.

Wellington, May 21 NZPA - State-owned coal miner Solid Energy says it has secured exclusive New Zealand rights to technology which converts low-grade lignite and biomass to high-grade coal and synthetic crude oils.

Wellington, May 18 NZPA - State-owned coal miner Solid Energy is ordering a further $65 million of plant and equipment for its Stockton opencast mine, north of Westport. Solid Energy has already ordered $75m worth of equipment to upgrade the mine's core mining fleet, the company said.

Wellington, March 29 NZPA - Most New Zealanders will support mining on conservation land if the Government can prove it will benefit the country, Prime Minister John Key says.

By Lee Scanlon of the Westport News Westport, Feb 4 NZPA - Don Elder has revealed that when Solid Energy employed him as its chief executive a decade ago he was supposed to wind the company up.