New EPA Provides Hope of Improved Environmental Administration
The Minister for the Environment’s decision to establish the new Environmental Protection Agency as a stand-alone agency provides greater opportunity for it to be independent and for it to …
Copenhagen Paves Way for Emissions Above 1990 Levels
The Copenhagen Accord paves the way for developed ountries to emit at a rate above 1990 levels when the science calls for deep cuts below this. It could turn out …
ETS Changes Put 84% of Kyoto Bill to Future Taxpayers
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 …
State Coal to Mine New State Subsidies
The state owned coal miner, Solid Energy, would be entitled to a subsidy on the cost of emissions from its proposed lignite to urea plant worth tens of millions …
Agricultural Emissions Can Be Cut 13% – At a Profit Today
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 …
NZ’s Medical Reputation at Risk from Transplant Trial
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
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 …
ETS Rules Prejudge Level of Corporate Welfare Required
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
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 …
