Comments on: How about polluter pays? http://blog.greens.org.nz/2007/04/16/how-about-polluter-pays/ hopping along the corridors of power Wed, 07 Jan 2009 23:38:13 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.3.3 By: jh http://blog.greens.org.nz/2007/04/16/how-about-polluter-pays/#comment-26300 jh Tue, 17 Apr 2007 22:54:44 +0000 http://blog.greens.org.nz/2007/04/16/how-about-polluter-pays/#comment-26300 Good enough to go against the public wishes to ban smacking, how about a tax on petrol and diesel? :razz: Good enough to go against the public wishes to ban smacking, how about a tax on petrol and diesel? :razz:

]]> By: Ari http://blog.greens.org.nz/2007/04/16/how-about-polluter-pays/#comment-26255 Ari Mon, 16 Apr 2007 15:43:45 +0000 http://blog.greens.org.nz/2007/04/16/how-about-polluter-pays/#comment-26255 I just wish they'd pick up that National's policy is even worse and shifts the cost onto tax, ie. mostly onto income tax and GST, meaning that even people buying the bare essentials will effectively be subsidising farming that's not always as environmentally conscious as it could be. I just wish they’d pick up that National’s policy is even worse and shifts the cost onto tax, ie. mostly onto income tax and GST, meaning that even people buying the bare essentials will effectively be subsidising farming that’s not always as environmentally conscious as it could be.

]]> By: alistair http://blog.greens.org.nz/2007/04/16/how-about-polluter-pays/#comment-26248 alistair Mon, 16 Apr 2007 10:57:41 +0000 http://blog.greens.org.nz/2007/04/16/how-about-polluter-pays/#comment-26248 Wow, a surprisingly good article. And this was an excellent catch : <i>A May 2000 Cabinet paper from then-Foreign Minister Phil Goff talks of "allowing the owners of sink credits to trade them freely on the international market". "New Zealand made it clear during the Kyoto negotiations that we do not intend to use the sink credits to in effect cross-subsidise our emitting sectors, allowing them to avoid taking action." <b>Yet with the exemption of agriculture in 2002 and the scrapping of the planned carbon tax in 2005, that is exactly what has happened.</b></i> I'm interested in this de-nitrification business, anyone know anything about it? Wow, a surprisingly good article.

And this was an excellent catch :
A May 2000 Cabinet paper from then-Foreign Minister Phil Goff talks of “allowing the owners of sink credits to trade them freely on the international market”.

“New Zealand made it clear during the Kyoto negotiations that we do not intend to use the sink credits to in effect cross-subsidise our emitting sectors, allowing them to avoid taking action.”

Yet with the exemption of agriculture in 2002 and the scrapping of the planned carbon tax in 2005, that is exactly what has happened.

I’m interested in this de-nitrification business, anyone know anything about it?

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