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Scoop Daily Ratings Top 30 Items For July 07 2010

Thursday, 8 July 2010, 9:11 am
Article: Scoop Daily Ratings

1: Emissions Trading Scheme Welcomed

Medianet
Mr Greg Adlam, CEO for CO2 New Zealand, says his company is well positioned for the challenges faced by emitters as well as the new business opportunities that will be created under the NZ Emissions Trading Scheme(ETS).
http://www.scoop.co.nz/stories/PO1007/S00055.htm

2: UQ Wire: A Citizens’ Critique Of The 9/11 Commiss.

www.UnansweredQuestions.org
In the wake of the attacks of September 11th, 2001, independent researchers, former military and intelligence officers, families of victims, certain members of Congress and other citizens began to address the unanswered questions about the events. Who? ...
http://www.scoop.co.nz/stories/HL0407/S00186.htm

3: Emirates’ Special Longhaul Fares Now on Sale

Emirates Airlines
Emirates has extended the sale of its range of special economy and business class return fares from Auckland, Wellington and Christchurch to Europe, South Africa, Dubai and India until Monday, July 19.
http://www.scoop.co.nz/stories/BU1007/S00175.htm

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4: Burmese Junta Funded By Chevron, Total, And PTTEP

Terry Evans
The Burmese junta are using massive gas revenues from Chevron, Total and PTTEP to fund it's fledgling nuclear weapons programme, according to a report published this week by the Paris-based human rights watchdog EarthRights International.
http://www.scoop.co.nz/stories/WO1007/S00126.htm

5: Labour delighted Pete Bethune is coming home

New Zealand Labour Party
Labour’s Conservation Spokesperson Chris Carter has welcomed this afternoon’s news that Kiwi environmental activist Pete Bethune has been given a suspended sentence by the Japanese court, so will be coming home to New Zealand very soon.
http://www.scoop.co.nz/stories/PA1007/S00148.htm

6: MARKET CLOSE: NZ stocks rise; APT, HBY gain

Businesswire
July 7 (BusinessDesk) – New Zealand stocks rose for their fourth consecutive session, coming off their lowest level since July 2009, lead by property stocks as investors sought holdings in companies with dependable earnings streams amid signs the global ...
http://www.scoop.co.nz/stories/BU1007/S00219.htm

7: ‘Ultimate’ southern cheese roll announced

Strategy First
The winner of the New Zealand International Science Festival ‘ultimate’ southern cheese roll competition was announced today, Tuesday 6 July at 12.30 midday at Wall Street, in Dunedin. Joy Jones from South Dunedin was crowned the maker of the finest ...
http://www.scoop.co.nz/stories/CU1007/S00063.htm

8: Rugby World Cup plans for wharf paramount

New Zealand Government
Rugby World Cup Minister Murray McCully is comfortable with the Auckland Regional Council exploring options that involve moving and protecting Shed 10 at their cost, so long as they do not risk the Government's plans for an appropriate entertainment ...
http://www.scoop.co.nz/stories/PA1007/S00146.htm

9: PM launches Rewi Alley documentary in Beijing

New Zealand Government
Prime Minister John Key today announced the release of a five-part documentary series about New Zealand author, poet, and humanitarian Rewi Alley, produced jointly by Natural History New Zealand (NHNZ) and China’s CCTV.
http://www.scoop.co.nz/stories/PA1007/S00145.htm

10: Welcome home Pete Bethune

Green Party
The Green Party is celebrating news that Pete Bethune is to come home.
http://www.scoop.co.nz/stories/PA1007/S00147.htm

11: Maori put ‘on hold’ while Brownlee ignores claims

Green Party
The Green Party is calling on Minister Brownlee to apologise to iwi for mismanagement of the oil permitting process.
http://www.scoop.co.nz/stories/PA1007/S00143.htm

12: West Auckland student makes Youth Parliament

New Zealand Labour Party
A West Auckland student from a refugee background had the right attitude to make parliament notice her.
http://www.scoop.co.nz/stories/PA1007/S00139.htm

13: Appointments to Creative New Zealand Arts Council

New Zealand Government
Academic and historian Professor John Davidson has been appointed to the board of the Creative New Zealand Arts Council of New Zealand, and Alastair Carruthers has been re-appointed as chair of the council, Arts, Culture and Heritage Minister Christopher ...
http://www.scoop.co.nz/stories/PA1007/S00142.htm

14: Pete Bethune's comment on his release back to NZ

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“All I wanted was justice for the loss of my boat, the Ady Gil, and the attempted murder of my crew.”
http://www.scoop.co.nz/stories/PO1007/S00085.htm

15: Customers continue to trust Toyota

Toyota New Zealand
June sales figures confirm that customers continue to support Toyota despite the US-based negative publicity the company faced in the first few months of the year, says Chief Executive Alistair Davis.
http://www.scoop.co.nz/stories/BU1007/S00217.htm

16: Government won’t lead on waste

Green Party
The Government has quietly backtracked on setting up mandatory product stewardship schemes for New Zealand’s most problematic waste streams, the Green Party said today.
http://www.scoop.co.nz/stories/PA1007/S00132.htm

17: ARC decision welcomed

New Zealand Labour Party
The decision made by the Auckland Regional Council to retain and refurbish Shed 10 on Auckland’s waterfront ahead of the 2011 Rugby World Cup has been welcomed by Jacinda Ardern, Labour List MP based in Auckland Central.
http://www.scoop.co.nz/stories/PA1007/S00140.htm

18: Shared services agency for Health confirmed

New Zealand Government
The Government has confirmed that a shared services agency will be established to harness the power of bulk purchasing for the public health service.
http://www.scoop.co.nz/stories/PA1007/S00137.htm

19: PM launches Rewi Alley documentary in Beijing

New Zealand Government
Prime Minister John Key today announced the release of a five-part documentary series about New Zealand author, poet, and humanitarian Rewi Alley, produced jointly by Natural History New Zealand (NHNZ) and China’s CCTV.
http://www.scoop.co.nz/stories/PA1007/S00144.htm

20: Kiwis asked to film their Life In A Day for world

YouTube
Historic global film experiment asks YouTube users to shoot their Life in a Day on July 24
http://www.scoop.co.nz/stories/CU1007/S00083.htm

21: Election in Oaxaca on July 4

Nancy Davies
In a massive voter turnout on July 4, 2010 the people of Oaxaca swept away 81 years of misrule by the Revolutionary Institutional Party, the PRI. For all state offices—governor, mayors and state legislators, the Coalition United for Peace and Progress (CUPP) ...
http://www.scoop.co.nz/stories/WO1007/S00131.htm

22: Four Year Old Home Alone

New Zealand Police
North Shore Police are expressing their gratitude to a man who discovered a four year old boy wandering alone in the North Shore suburb of Bayview early this morning.
http://www.scoop.co.nz/stories/AK1007/S00074.htm

23: RUC changes will reduce compliance, transport cost

New Zealand Government
Cabinet has approved changes to the road user charges (RUC) system which are designed to simplify and modernise a key part of New Zealand’s transport operation.
http://www.scoop.co.nz/stories/PA1007/S00138.htm

24: Auckland Council’s CCO structure approved

New Zealand Government
The final structure of Auckland’s council controlled organisations was agreed to by Cabinet yesterday, says Minister of Local Government Rodney Hide.
http://www.scoop.co.nz/stories/PA1007/S00121.htm

25: Banks on Queens Wharf

John Banks
“My position on the restoration of Queens Wharf has not changed since day one however the future of Queens Wharf is in the hands of the owners – the Government and the Auckland Regional Council.”
http://www.scoop.co.nz/stories/PO1007/S00078.htm

26: Update on search for missing Ohope man

New Zealand Police
Whakatane Police have still not located any sign of an Ohope man who was reported missing to them by his family on Monday afternoon.
http://www.scoop.co.nz/stories/AK1007/S00075.htm

27: IFJ Mourns Journalist Killed In India

International Federation of Journalists
The IFJ is shocked at reports that a freelance journalist, Hem Chandra Pandey, was killed in an armed encounter in which police in the southern Indian state of Andhra Pradesh eliminated a leader of the banned Communist Party of India Cherukuri Rajkumar
http://www.scoop.co.nz/stories/WO1007/S00132.htm

28: NZ Centre Gets ‘Next Generation’ Arc Radiation

New Zealand Government
Hundreds of prostate cancer patients per year will benefit from faster, more precise, ‘next generation’ radiation therapy that’s just become available in New Zealand for the first time.
http://www.scoop.co.nz/stories/GE1007/S00026.htm

29: C&R Howick Announce Local Board Team

Citizens and Ratepayer
C&R Howick, a branch of C&R Auckland, has announced today its Howick Local Board Team.
http://www.scoop.co.nz/stories/AK1007/S00062.htm

30: Community and Safety Award nominations close soon

Hutt City Council
Do you know a community group who deserve recognition for their work in the community or towards the safety of our city? Then nominate them for a Community or Safety Award.
http://www.scoop.co.nz/stories/AK1007/S00079.htm

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