Making Our Children Pay for Polluter Subsidies
Wednesday, September 23, 2009
Putting most of the Kyoto bill on the credit card is the Government’s plan.
Its announcement proposing changes to the Emissions Trading Scheme (ETS) did not begin to spell this …
Agricultural Emissions Can Be Cut 13% – At a Profit Today
Thursday, April 2, 2009
A report completed for MAF dispels the convenient untruth that pastoral farmers have no cost-effective options to reduce their greenhouse gas emissions.
Over 13% of the nation’s agricultural emissions can …
Australia’s Indefensible Climate Change Targets
Friday, March 20, 2009
The Australian Government proposes an unconditional target of reducing 2000 year net emissions by 5%, and would make a 15% cut if other developed nations make similar commitments. These …
ETS: Bill to a Future Generation
Thursday, February 12, 2009
Proposed changes to the emissions trading scheme (ETS) would result in 84% or more of the nation’s multi-billion dollar Kyoto liability being put on to future taxpayers. Today’s polluters …
NZ’s Medical Reputation at Risk from Transplant Trial
Tuesday, October 21, 2008
New Zealand’s medical reputation has been put at risk by the Government approving an animal to human transplant technique before it has been properly assessed, the Sustainability Council believes. …
ESR Questions Safety of a GM Food – NZFSA Shops for “Updated” Advice
Friday, October 10, 2008
New Zealand’s food safety regulator ‘shopped’ for alternative advice when a report it had commissioned from ESR questioned the safety of a GM food.
The original report by Dr Lou …
Broken Promise and Broken Toxic Chemicals Reassessment Process
Thursday, August 14, 2008
The cost of the Government’s broken promise on highly toxic organochlorines is now clearer following ERMA’s initial reassessment of one of these chemicals.
It promised more than a decade ago …
A Climate For Protection Money
Wednesday, July 23, 2008
The plan to put a price on carbon emissions needs to change or it will require ordinary consumers to pay for protection of farmers’ capital gains and fail to …
ETS Rules Prejudge Level of Corporate Welfare Required
Tuesday, June 24, 2008
Eight of the companies set to qualify for corporate welfare under the Emissions Trading Scheme (ETS) are together likely to receive $1.4 billion or more over the next decade.
These …
