Delta is confident of being paid a ''significant portion'' of a potential bad debt, worth millions of dollars, Dunedin City Holdings Ltd chairman Graham Crombie says.
Dunedin City Council-owned company Delta has picked up a $22 million Christchurch City Council contract - a move hailed as good news for ratepayers in both cities.
The Dunedin City Council must share the blame for multimillion-dollar losses incurred by Delta from its failed property investments at Jacks Point and Luggate, Mayor Dave Cull says.
Delta infrastructure company has been making some changes to improve Dunedin's electricity network. The work is part of a $20 million upgrade of the Aurora Energy network in Dunedin to replace cables installed in the 1960s.
A Dunedin city councillor says the Dunedin City Council isn't doing enough to support local businesses, as one of its own companies - Delta - prepares to axe another 77 jobs.
Two jobs have been saved, but 38 will still go after infrastructure company Delta yesterday confirmed the details of redundancies within its Dunedin operation.
The jetsam of Delta's unsuccessful expansion drive are washing up online, as the company sells off the remains of its failed Christchurch civil construction business.
Criticism that Dunedin Mayor Dave Cull and the city council and Delta chief executive Grady Cameron have not been taking responsibility for issues in council-owned companies and Delta is unfair, Cr Richard Thomson writes.