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About the Inquiry

Terms of Reference

Inquiry members

The two inquiry members are Elena Trout (Chair), and Dr Roger Blakeley.

Elena Trout

Elena Trout has an engineering background and boasts a wealth of governance experience. She was President of the Institution of Professional Engineers of New Zealand (2016-2017), (now Engineering New Zealand), and is on the board of Contact Energy, Harrison Grierson, Ngāpuhi Asset Holdings Ltd, the Energy Efficiency and Conservation Authority and Marsden Maritime Holdings. She has previously been a board member of the Electricity Authority and Transpower and has held roles as a director or management consultant in a wide range of organisations across the transport, energy, petrochemical, oil and gas, and utilities sectors.

Dr Roger Blakeley

Dr Roger Blakeley has a background in civil engineering, and vast experience in leading development of strategies in relation to local government and infrastructure.  He is currently an elected member of the Greater Wellington Regional Council, and a director of Wellington Regional Council Holdings Ltd, Port Investments Ltd and Greater Wellington Rail Ltd. He was the Chief Planning Officer of the Auckland Council, and the Chief Executive of the Porirua City Council, the Department of Internal Affairs, and the Ministry for the Environment.

Cabinet Papers

This information is released on the request of the Minister of Energy and Resources. In releasing this information, the Minister takes into account the public interest in making the information public.

Following a due diligence process, the Department has redacted the names of people and other details from the documents to protect the privacy of natural persons and the safety of a person. Documents are published in Adobe PDF format and are listed in release-date order, with the most recent responses at the top.