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“We believe our organisation needs to move towards a more sustainable position,” chief executive Simon Limmer told
Stuff. “If we were assessing this on pure financial grounds, we would be delaying for much longer, but we feel as though it is the right thing to be doing. “These are important initiatives for us so we are moving them up the priority list from where they sat a couple of years ago,” he said. “We are seeing opportunities to move quicker than the 2030 deadline as well, which is what we are hoping to be able to do.”
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Climate Change Minister James Shaw talks about the climate change report and how New Zealand will look in years to come. (First published June 9, 2021)
The shuttles provide a passenger service, including transport for people who use wheelchairs.
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A commander of the order of St John, Philip Fraser receives the keys to two new electric health shuttles from St John s national community care manager, Julie Taverner at an unveiling of the vehicles at the Ascot Park Hotel in Invercargill on Friday. Next to Taverner is chaplain Leah Boniface, kaumatuas Cyril Gilroy (obscured) and Victor Manawatu and chaplain Nyalle Paris.The St John health shuttles will transport people in Winton and Invercargill to medical-health appointments. The Invercargill shuttle will not be in service until probably late July, by which time the group of volunteers to operate it will be confirmed and given training on its wheelchair equipment.
A $60,000 grant from Tasman District Council will help the Warmer Healthier Homes Te Tau Ihu Charitable Trust insulate the last known qualifying homes in the district.
Critchlow Geospatial has launched SwitchMyFleet , a free-to-air website for fleet operators who are considering switching to electric vans and trucks and could be the catalyst to give New Zealand businesses the confidence to switch to EV fleets .