Business
Chatham Rock Phosphate Provides Briefing Notes to Key Incoming Government Ministers
Chatham Rock Phosphate Provides Briefing Notes to Key Incoming Government Ministers ...
About this update from Chatham Rock Phosphate Limited
[{"type":"text","content":"\n\n\n\nChatham Rock Phosphate Provides Briefing Notes to Key Incoming Government Ministers\n\n/* Style Definitions */\nspan.prnews_span\n{\nfont-size:8pt;\nfont-family:\"Arial\";\ncolor:black;\n}\na.prnews_a\n{\ncolor:blue;\n}\nli.prnews_li\n{\nfont-size:8pt;\nfont-family:\"Arial\";\ncolor:black;\n}\np.prnews_p\n{\nfont-size:0.62em;\nfont-family:\"Arial\";\ncolor:black;\nmargin:0in;\n}\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nCanada NewsWire\nWELLINGTON, New Zealand, Dec. 6, 2017\n\n\n\nWELLINGTON, New Zealand, Dec. 6, 2017 /CNW/ - Chatham Rock Phosphate Limited (TSXV: \"NZP\" and NZAX: \"CRP\" or the \"Company\") is pleased to announce that it recently provided briefing notes to a number of incoming Ministers following the recent change of Government in New Zealand.\n\nIndividual briefing notes were sent to the ten most relevant Ministers, including the Prime Minister and Deputy Prime Minister, as well as the Ministers of Energy and Resources, Environment and Economic Development, Agriculture, Fisheries, Forestry, Export Development, Conservation and Regional Development. It is pleasing that a number of responses have been received already.\n\nThe notes provided a succinct summary of our project and particularly its net environmental benefits and an example is included in this release to further reiterate these messages to existing shareholders and stakeholders.   \n\"Briefing to the Incoming Minister\n\nMinister of Agriculture, Minister for Food Safety, Minister for Biosecurity, Minister for Rural Communities  \n\nSummary\n\nThe Chatham rock phosphate project comprehensively ticks the boxes in terms of net environmental benefits, security of supply of an essential farm input, project economics and benefits to the NZ economy.  \n\nIntroduction\n\nChatham Rock Phosphate Limited (CRP) is a Wellington based company that proposes to dredge rock phosphate from a small part of the central Chatham Rise, about 450km offshore Christchurch. \n\nAlthough it has cornerstone investors overseas and is stock exchange listed in both Canada and Frankfurt (as well as New Zealand) more than 50% of CRP is owned by over 1,300 New Zealanders. \n\nBenefits for the Environment\n\nRock phosphate from the Chatham Rise has exceptional environmentally beneficial attributes relating to its properties as a reactive rock phosphate and its unusually low cadmium le...