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Associate Minister of Foreign Affairs and Trade Pete Hodgson departs New Zealand for Los Angeles tonight to promote New Zealand as a film-making destination.

Fisheries Minister Pete Hodgson has welcomed the establishment of a new taiapure-local fishery at Nelson’s Delaware Bay.

The termination this week of “Operation Pacman” will deal a severe blow to the extensive poaching and black marketing of New Zealand’s valuable paua and rock lobster resources.

Forestry Minister Pete Hodgson departs New Zealand for New York City tonight for a meeting of the United Nations Forum on Forests.

Address to Energy Trusts of NZ autumn conference, Wellington, on electricity industry issues, particularly concerning lines companies.

Fisheries Minister Pete Hodgson says the government is comfortable with the Primary Production Committee’s key change to the Resource Management (Aquaculture Moratorium) Amendment Bill.

Fisheries Minister Pete Hodgson says extreme care will be taken to avoid the rare North Island Hector’s dolphin during the second phase of a snapper tagging research programme currently taking place on the west coast of the North Island.

The government remains determined to put in place effective measures to protect the North Island Hector’s Dolphin.

Whiteware buyers will be able to compare energy costs between appliances easily when new energy efficiency regulations take effect on April 1.

Thank you for inviting me to speak again at this gathering.

The latest NZIER report on the Kyoto Protocol fails to improve the Institute’s poor standard of research and commentary on the issue ...

Pete Hodgson, Convenor of the Ministerial Group on Climate Change, today released a review of two significant economic models used to analyse the possible effects of ratification of the Kyoto Protocol.

Conservation Minister Sandra Lee and Fisheries Minister Pete Hodgson today expressed extreme dismay at reports of two more deaths of endangered North Island Hector’s dolphins from set netting.

Minister of Research, Science and Technology Pete Hodgson has appointed three new board members for the Foundation for Research, Science and Technology and reappointed three for a second term.

New Zealand will meet the Kyoto Protocol’s requirement for “demonstrable progress” towards its greenhouse gas emission target by 2005 without difficulty, says the Convenor of the Ministerial Group on Climate Change, Pete Hodgson.

[Address at opening of new landfill gas electricity generation plant, Whitford Landfill, near Manukau City.]

I’m always saying the Kyoto Protocol is essentially about new technology. This generation plant is an example of what I mean.

Cabinet has adopted a set of key principles to guide the development of New Zealand’s climate change policies.

The importance of a prosperous farming sector to the New Zealand economy is a key reason for the Government’s intention to ratify the Kyoto Protocol, says the Convenor of the Ministerial Group on Climate Change, Pete Hodgson.

New Zealand’s level of innovative business activity is above the European average and business R&D expenditure may be higher than previously thought, a new statistical survey suggests.

New Zealand’s level of innovative business activity is above the European average and business R&D expenditure may be higher than previously thought, a new statistical survey suggests.

By Pete Hodgson
Minister of Energy
Convenor of the Ministerial Group on Climate Change

Much has been said recently about the possible consequences for New Zealand of ratifying the Kyoto Protocol on climate change.

Four business incubators around New Zealand will benefit from awards totalling $310,000 from the Government's incubator support programme.

The awards are the first in the 2001-02 funding round, for which $1.5 million is available.

The Government is taking steps to accelerate the implementation of the Power Package reforms as a result of its review of this winter’s electricity supply difficulties.

Energy Minister Pete Hodgson has welcomed British Deputy Prime Minister John Prescott’s comments on Britain’s support for the Kyoto Protocol on climate change.