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The nation’s quarry industry holds its annual conference in Taranaki this week at what is described as a critical juncture for the sector and its fundamental role in helping build New Zealand. Aggregate and Quarry Association (AQA) CEO Wayne Scott says the industry is...
The quarry industry says confirmation of changes to new regulations governing wetlands is a victory for common-sense and will help the Government meet its own infrastructure and housing programme ambitions. Aggregate and Quarry Association CEO Wayne Scott says...
The quarry industry warns Auckland faces an almost immediate crisis for road and building construction after consent application for coastal sand extraction at Pakiri near Mangawhai were declined. Aggregate and Quarry Association CEO Wayne Scott says the decision of...
A world-class strategy that New Zealand must embrace and rapidly deliver if we want to remain a first-world economy. That’s how the quarry industry has responded to today’s release of the strategy for the next 30 years from Te Waihanga, the New Zealand Infrastructure...
With farmers facing huge increases in the price of fertilisers, some of which are further hit by foreign shipping costs, the country’s lime industry is pointing to the benefits of their locally-extracted product. New Zealand Limestone Producers Association member...
Featherston quarry operator Peter Warren says he’s pleased a long and challenging process to get approval for a new quarry on the outskirts of the town has concluded. South Wairarapa District Council last week approved the consent for PJ Warren Earthmoving to process...
The quarry industry says it will work with Government agencies to remedy policies which a NZ Infrastructure Commission Te Waihanga study says make it harder to access the aggregate needed to meet growing demand. Aggregate and Quarry Association (AQA) CEO Wayne Scott...
Forest & Bird's opposition to new consenting pathways for quarries is a call to burn more fuel and add cost to every new home, says the Aggregate and Quarry Association. CEO Wayne Scott says F&B is effectively telling its members that sometimes tiny patches of...
Dunedin’s Blackhead Quarries has swept the annual national awards of the quarry industry. At a gala dinner in Wellington on Friday night, Blackhead Quarries and associated companies took five of the seven awards given to quarries competing from around the country....
A clarion call from New Zealand Infrastructure Commission, Te Waihanga, CEO Ross Copland for decisionmakers to allow quarries to exist near urban centres is being applauded by the quarry sector. In a keynote address to the QuarryNZ conference in Wellington today, Ross...
