Energy body wants to stay
Members of the Port Hills Energy Authority have asked the member of Parliament for Lyttelton, Dr Peter Simpson, to help save their authority. They are worried that they will disappear if the McCutcheon report recommending the formation of one electrical authority from Kaikoura to Ashburton is implemented. Mrs Mahoney May said the Port Hills Energy authority wanted to see deregulation and a free market decide who provided power to consumers in the region. The Port Hills Energy
Authority was set up 18 months ago by the Lyttelton Borough Council and the Heathcote County Council. The members told Dr Simpson that their authority had provided wind generators and was looking at other alternative forms of energy, such as using the refuse and sewage of the area. It was an advantage to the country and to consumers if alternatives to hydro-electric sources of electricity were used. Dr Simpson said he would pass on their concern to the Minister of Energy, Mr Butcher.
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Press, 20 October 1987, Page 7
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