Welcome to the Wairakei Environmental Mitigation Charitable Trust

The Wairakei Environmental Mitigation Charitable Trust was established to facilitate enhancement, protection, and research which supports the protection and enhancement of the variety of geothermal characteristics of the volcanic plateau. It addresses the environmental issues of the Contact’s geothermal operations on the Wairakei geothermal field. Funding is allocated to those projects which comply with the purpose of the Trust.


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Funding Round to Open 23 Jan 2023
Funding Round to Open 23 Jan 2023

The Trust has now been revitalised with additional funding associated with Contact’s Tauhara power station development and the renewal of resource consents for Contact’s Wairakei operations and is now back in business to support ecological enhancement projects in the geothermal environments of the Waikato Region.

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