The Christchurch management team of Biodiesel New Zealand bought the business early in 2013, confident that they would be able to run it profitably even without the government’s biodiesel subsidy, which had ended on 30 June 2012, and without the storage tanks that had already been removed and sold off by Solid Energy.<ref>Business Day, 15 February 2013,[http://www.stuff.co.nz/business/industries/8307941/Solid-Energy-sells-its-biofuel-arm-to-management “Solid Energy sells its biofuel arm to management”], accessed July 2013</ref>
==Solid Energy – Environmental Issues==
===Mining the conservation estate===