John Key’s newest tactic to silence farmers is to proffer himself a s their saviour by claiming his scheme is only going to cost $3000 per year per farmer while labour’s was going to cost $30000 per year in the year 2030 This presumes we are not going to have a labour government between nowContinue Reading …
Farmers do u-turn on carbon tax
November 20, 2009
This is the headline that got me riled up but as is so often the case the headline does not reflect the actual story. Federated Farmers u-turn is not really a u-turn and it is not over the ETS or a tax on carbon emissions as such it is on the FART tax protests ofContinue Reading …
Back From the Brink!
November 18, 2009
With no agreement on the table for the Copenhagen conference the Kyoto agreement will finish in 2012 and nothing will replace it. This is great news for New Zealand and agriculture. This is because the chance of any binding international agreement in the future is remote and with no international constraints each individual country willContinue Reading …
Copenhagen
November 3, 2009
The chances of anything being signed at Copenhagen were never good and thankfully it seems what slim chance there was is getting slimmer. The US is unlikely to get its emissions scheme through its Senate and nor is Australia. It seems NZ is one of the few who have a parliament that is keen forContinue Reading …
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