Tuesday, November 5, 2013

New Zealand:

Contact Energy Granted Ohaaki Resource Consents (Your Oil and Gas News - press release)

Ohaaki Geothermal Power Plant (Courtesy Contact)
Contact Energy Limited owns and operates the 40 MWe Ohaaki Geothermal Power Plant 26 km north east of Taupo on land leased from Ngati Tahu. In April 2013 Contact applied for new resource consents to continue its operation.

By a decision of Commissioners appointed by Waikato Regional Council and the Waikato River Authority to hear the applications, resource consents have now been granted, as sought, for a term of 35 years and for a take of 40,000 tonnes per day of geothermal fluid. The consents granted are subject to conditions that do not differ materially from those sought.