2 weeks Ago By Jamie Gray
Contact Energy chief executive Mike Fuge is surprisingly upbeat given the number of potential set-backs the company is facing. Last month, its proposal for a 330MW, 55 turbine, wind farm in Southland was declined, and a decision on its $2 billion takeover of Manawa Energy by the Commerce Commission has been pushed back to May 9. But Fuge is confident the wind farm will one day go ahead and says Contact would not have proposed the farm if it didn’t believe it to be an outstanding project and one that would comply with the law.
“What it highlighted is that our planning laws are in a mess,” Fuge told the Herald . “They are subject to the whims and fancies of commissioners or judiciary, and that is not appropriate when we have such an important job ahead in the energy transition.”.
