Do the Maori Party get anything for the ETS?
I’m sure Tariana Turia and Pita Sharples have a strategy in there somewhere, but it’s pretty hard to spot at this stage. Surely they didn’t agree to give the National government their votes on the ETS...
View ArticleThe ETS – Progress or antediluvian?
We’re lucky Charles Chauvel in leading our negotiations with the National Party kept a clear paper trail. It shows that Labour was acting in good faith in those negotiations, and makes the shonky deal...
View ArticleHouse tactics – Wiremu Pakeha missing
So we have had urgency for each week of the current session. Last night the house finished four hours early because the government had run out of business. And now we are back in urgency doing the ETS....
View ArticleClimate amendments an appalling abuse
Well, this week I’ve had my first exposure to the ETS Amendment Bill. It is so bad I cannot quite find the words to describe it. Try this for starters: “a $21 billion wealth transfer from consumers and...
View ArticleClimate Change at the Finance and Expenditure Committee
Last year, I chaired the Finance and Expenditure Committee (FEC) while we heard submissions on the Emissions Trading Scheme (Mark 1). The Committee received 259 submissions. We heard in person from 161...
View ArticleClimate change is not a fringe issue
Over the weekend, I have been joining people across Wellington (as well as across the world) who have been showing their support for a broad political agreement that will reduce Greenhouse Gas...
View ArticleDoctors on National’s ETS – Public health pays the price
Last Friday, the New Zealand Climate & Health Group made their views on the Emissions Trading Scheme public. In the Journal of the New Zealand Medical Association (the article is viewable if you...
View ArticleThe real cost of the ETS
Charles may want to do a full post on this later, but it is worth noting that Treasury’s estimate of the cost of the ETS to taxpayers has doubled. To quote from the Dom Post story The Government’s...
View ArticleNational, Maori Party* and Peter Dunne pass their ETS
The ETS has consumed a lot of time over the past twelve months. The final passage of Nick Smith’s bill is a disappointment, particularly when one considers that the costs to Kiwis is so tremendous. So...
View ArticleManufacturing consents
More developments on the Mackenzie Basin factory farming proposal. Environment Canterbury was today hearing whether the the three-linked companies water consents can be heard separately to the board of...
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