Panel Session - Offshore Wind Energy: Think Big & Better in a Renewable Age
Facilitator: Brigid McArthur, Partner, GreenwoodRoche
In the 1970s, the Muldoon-led Third National Government faced an ailing economy and a series of crises in oil supply. When Bill Birch became Minister of Energy in 1978, he looked to the large petroleum reserves in Taranaki as a key tool to kickstart economic recovery and growth. The Think Big Projects were spawned, projects from which New Zealand still benefits today. Think Big had downsides though, and itself spawned 'Rogernomics', the effects of which we are also still feeling today.
Panel Members
Hon. Max Bradford - Director, Bradford & Associates
Kerry McDonald - Company director, chairman, advisor and economist
Phil O'Reilly - Partner, Iron Duke Partners