Posted 5 July 2010

Only on and after the 1 July date that New Zealand's emission trading scheme (ETS) came into force have our two mainstream metro newspapers deigned to print the comments of Federated Farmers president Don Nicolson about the adverse effect the ETS will have on the finances and international competitiveness of our farmers.

1 July: Dominion Post, Wellington - link 

5 July: New Zealand Herald, Auckland - link 

Posted 3 June 2010

"Just maybe, New Zealand has embarked on a lonely, delusional, badly-timed odyssey that will cost the country dearly – leaving the rest of the world shaking its collective head in amused bewilderment.  New Zealand, the land which swallowed its own propaganda. " David Broome comments for Federated Farmers on New Zealand's emissions trading scheme.

Posted 26 March 2009

The unfair financial impact  on a typical New Zealand farmer of a totally unnecessary and unjustfied emissions trading scheme are described in stark terms by a Gisborne farming couple, Neil and Esther Henderson, in the pdf document attached. Current New Zealand government policy, "all gases, all sectors" will impose higher costs for fuels and electricity on everyone, farmers included, from 1 July this year onward, with animal emissions to cut in from 2015. Mr and Mrs Henderson make a convincing case why, in view of the uncertainties in the science, and the inaction of other competitor countries, New Zealand should defer introduction of its ETS legislation.

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Posted 7 March 2010

"The greatest scandal connected to global warming is not exaggeration, fraud or destruction of data to conceal the weakness of the argument. It is those who are personally profiting from promoting this fantasy at the expense of the rest of us.  Al Gore is the most visible beneficiary." Editorial in the Washington Times, USA.

LINK