Ten NZ companies were given 6.7 million free emission units in 2018

Have open tidy data; will graph it. I whip up a pie chart of the top ten New Zealand companies rorting the New Zealand Emissions Trading Scheme via free allocation of emissions units.

Of 6.7 million NZ Emissions Trading Scheme emission units allocated by the Environmental Protection Authority (given for free instead of being sold by auction) to industries in 2018, 6.2 million or 91% went to ten well-known New Zealand companies.

Here is the R script.

	top10names<-c("NZ Steel", "NZ Aluminium Smelters", "Methanex NZ", "Fletcher Concrete", "Oji Fibre", "Ballance Agri-Nutrients", "Pan Pac Forest Products", "Norske Skog Tasman", "Winstone Pulp", "Graymont","Others")
	top10allocation <-c(1782366, 1324556, 945210, 584032, 484322, 325594, 210652, 200556, 151546, 144405,590334 )
	palettepair11<-brewer.pal(11, "Paired")
	png("nzu-allocations-pie-2018-565.png", width=565, height=424, pointsize = 14)
	pie(top10allocation,labels=c(top10names),radius = 0.99,clockwise = FALSE,init.angle=260, col = palettepair11, cex.lab=1.1,cex.main=1.5,main="NZETS free allocation of emission units\nto the Top Ten Emitters 2018")
	mtext(side=1,cex=0.9,line=2.6,"Source: https://www.epa.govt.nz/industry-areas/\nemissions-trading-scheme/industrial-allocations/decisions/")
	mtext(side=1,cex=1,line=0.4,"Of 6.7 million units allocated to industry, 6.2 million (91%) went to 10 companies")
	dev.off()

view raw NZ emission unit allocation 2018 hosted with ❤ by GitHub

Here is the data of the emissions units gifted for free to industrial emitters in 2018.

Windfall gifting of emissions units to industry in 2018

Name	Allocation
New Zealand Steel Development Limited	1,782,366
New Zealand Aluminium Smelters Limited	1,324,556
Methanex New Zealand Ltd	945,210
Fletcher Concrete and Infrastructure Limited	584,032
Oji Fibre Solutions (NZ) Limited	484,322
Ballance Agri-Nutrients (Kapuni) Limited	325,594
Pan Pac Forest Products Limited	210,652
Norske Skog Tasman Ltd	200,556
Winstone Pulp International Limited	151,546
Graymont (NZ) Limited	144,405
Whakatane Mill Limited	139,690
ACI OPERATIONS NZ LIMITED	59,945
Fonterra Limited	50,664
Asaleo Care New Zealand Limited	29,419
Nelson Pine Industries Limited	26,569
Wallace Group Limited Partnership	26,539
Pacific Steel (NZ) Limited	19,550
EVONIK PEROXIDE LIMITED	18,443
Daiken New Zealand Limited	17,770
Dongwha New Zealand Limited	16,854
Status Produce Limited	15,496
Taranaki By-Products Ltd	14,197
Exception Limited	11,618
Tuakau Proteins Ltd	11,393
Anchor Ethanol Limited	10,784
Southern Paprika Limited	10,406
Alliance Group Limited	10,012
Affco New Zealand Limited	9,465
Under Glass (Karaka) Limited	7,574
Gourmet Mokai Limited	7,006
Under Glass (Bombay) Ltd	6,194
Websters Hydrated Lime Company Limited	5,999
J.S.Ewers Ltd	5,853
Hawkes Bay Protein Limited	5,740
CMP Canterbury Limited	5,470
Juken New Zealand Ltd	5,304
Gourmet Paprika Limited	4,837
PVL Proteins Limited	3,632
Fletcher Building Products Limited	3,344
Sharma Produce Limited	2,677
Gourmet Waiuku Limited	2,190
Kakariki Proteins Limited	2,037
Shipherd Nurseries Limited	1,900
Island Horticulture Limited	1,717
Tegel Foods Limited	1,632
Value Proteins Ltd	1,581
Whakatane Growers Limited	1,393
P H Kinzett Ltd	1,344
Moffatts Flower Company Limited	1,182
Karaka Park Produce Limited	1,169
Van Lier Nurseries Ltd	1,123
Taylor Preston Limited	1,104
Meenakshi Devi Sharma, Raj Kumar Sharma	1,080
Vege Fresh Growers Limited	1,075
Jai Shankar Growers Limited	928
Prime Range Meats Limited	928
Homestead Produce Ltd	881
Sinai Hort Limited	604
J.S. Mahey Limited	599
Castle Rock Orchard Ltd	564
Karamea Tomatoes Limited	526
Poppas Peppers 2009 Limited	351
Taaza Green Limited	337
Harbour Head Growers Ltd	261
Ting-Yuan Robert Wu	239
Parkgard Growers 2000 Limited	222
Antone James Ivicevich, Joanne Elizabeth Gould Ivicevich	210
Graeme Lowe Protein Limited	198
Mary Jane Fausett, Peter James Fausett	143
Pomoana Gardens Limited	100
John Hamilton Charles Falloon, Paul Gregory Whitehead	79
Royal Roses Limited	66
Kingbridge Ltd	61
Eseta Kovati, Reupena Kovati	37
GELITA NZ Ltd	29
Wallace Corporation Limited	0