Todd Energy is to build a $100m gas-fired power station near Waitara in Taranaki.

Power has been restored to Napier after a felled tree shortcircuited a cable supplying electricity to more than 21,000 people.

Cutting greenhouse-gas emissions is challenging enough. But what if we can't even measure the pollution we're trying to reduce?

NZ has just one inspector to oversee safety in its oil exploration industry.

The death of a man whose breathing apparatus stopped during a power cut has been referred to a coroner.

Grey District Mayor Tony Kokshoorn is calling for Pike River to be made into an opencast coal mine, amid efforts to keep the 114 skilled miners made redundant today on the West Coast.

Many suppliers may never be paid back for giving to the recovery operation at Pike River Coal mine, the Grey District Mayor says.

Receivers for Pike River Coal are making 114 of its employees redundant immediately.

The families of the 29 workers who died in the Pike River mine are calling on the Govt to fund the recovery operation.

Herald deputy business editor Grant Bradley, who has visited the Pike River mine and covered the company for the Business Herald, on why today's receivership move by Pike River was inevitable.

Pike River Coal Ltd, the owner of Pike River mine, has been put into receivership.

State-owned coal miner Solid Energy's plans to turn low-grade Southland lignite coal deposits into massive new industries make no sense and the coal should remain in the ground, says the Parliamentary Commissioner for the Environment.

Some top SOEs have been overvalued by their boards - with one worth just half its estimate, two new Treasury report say.

Rio Tinto Group, the world's third-largest mining company, has made a A$3.5 billion ($4.53 billion) takeover proposal for Riversdale Mining, which is developing coal mines in Africa.

Lord Hunt writes on the need to understand the Chinese policy on climate change.

The Pike River blast has led some miners to discuss whether it is safe to remain in the industry.