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 …
Consumers Pay Over $1 Billion of Major Emitters’ Power Bills
Wednesday, June 18, 2008
Major industrial emitters are to receive well over a billion dollars in subsidies from ordinary consumers for power they buy over the next ten years.
Under the new rules proposed …
Corporate Welfare Under the ETS
Wednesday, June 18, 2008
This briefing provides indicative estimates of the subsidies that were to be payable to eight major industrial emitters under the proposed rules for the Emissions Trading Scheme (ETS) proposed …
