3 Aug 2015

Decision due on aluminium smelter

From Morning Report, 7:37 am on 3 August 2015

New Zealand should know the future of Southland's aluminium smelter shortly. The company running the firm has long complained about the costs of doing business at the plant, chiefly the price it pays for its electricity and the cost of transmitting that electricity to its factory. However despite these complaints, the company is not thought likely to shut down, even though it could.