Taranaki
Britishnoun
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The companies plan to seek resource consent for a 250-megawatt data center near the site of Contact’s closed Taranaki Combined Cycle gas power plant.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Aug. 11, 2026
This year in Aotearoa, also known as New Zealand, the mountain Taranaki Maunga was recognized as a legal person because the Maori see it as an ancestor.
From Salon ● Mar. 12, 2025
Ms. Beyer was sent to live first in a Salvation Army home, then with her maternal grandparents in Taranaki, a region northwest of Wellington, until she was about 5.
From New York Times ● Mar. 8, 2023
Previous incidents on Taranaki have also outraged the local Maori community, including a group of hikers taking a barbecue to the peak for a summit grilling session, and people leaving graffiti on the mountain.
From BBC ● May 3, 2017
Taranaki was in the Wesleyan sphere of influence: Te Rangitaake was a churchman.
From A History of the English Church in New Zealand by H. T. (Henry Thomas) Purchas
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