Archive for October, 2007

  • Russel Norman

    Dairy farmers $750m windfall



    The Greens have been getting plenty of stick from Fed Farmers etc for daring to suggest that the dairy industry should cover the cost of their excess greenhouse emissions rather than the taxpayer, as the govt proposes. Well this article puts an interesting light on it. Dairy farmers just received an extra $750m last week [...] read more
    October 29, 2007 5:19 pm - 73 Comments
  • Russel Norman

    Sarkozy



    Some interesting environment proposals from ‘conservative’ French president Nicolas Sarkozy. The NZ National Party is so far away away from being blue-green party when you compare it to Sarkozy. Even the NZ Labour party is behind some of Sarkozy’s proposals: Oct 25 (Reuters) - French President Nicolas Sarkozy unveiled proposals on Thursday aimed at revolutionising France’s environmental [...] read more
    October 29, 2007 2:45 pm - 53 Comments
  • frog

    Frog week isn’t over yet



    Hear Dr Phil Bishop, University of Otago Senior Lecturer in Zoology and frog fanatic. Of the 4 endemic frog species NZ has left, 2 are in dire straits and only hanging on due to our offshore island sanctuaries. They’re my ‘brothers in arms’, so please download our frog poster and stick it up at home, [...] read more
    October 26, 2007 2:19 pm - 39 Comments
  • Russel Norman

    Movember



    As there seems to be a large number of us blokes posting on this site, this may be of interest. I seem to remember a certain former Assistant Green Party Campaign Manager who grew quite a beautiful example of a mo last Movember. Movember – Changing the face of Men’s Health Movember (the month formally known as November) [...] read more
    October 25, 2007 10:43 am - 25 Comments
  • Russel Norman

    Greens are global citizens



    The folk at the NZ Institute want us to drag the chain on climate change, and the Nats are happy to climb on board this particular barbed wire canoe. There are people like this in every country in the world, and they all say “Let’s wait to see what other people will do before we reduce [...] read more
    October 24, 2007 3:10 pm - 95 Comments
  • frog

    It’s Frog Week



      Yes it’s frog week, I’ve been too busy partying to let you know about it, but check out the DOC site for what’s happening in the rest of the week or drop the green party a line to find out what they’re doing to protect my green kin. It is a week for celebrating all things froggy, [...] read more
    October 24, 2007 1:37 pm - 4 Comments
  • Russel Norman

    Ross Meurant’s comments on the raids



    Ross Meurant’s interview on Morning Report is well worth a listen if you missed it. Meurant is a former leading police officer and right wing politician. Meurant says that “police are a subculture that tend to look at everyone as villains” with a ”tendency to exaggerate”. He says that this filter means that information gathering by [...] read more
    October 19, 2007 6:06 pm - 140 Comments
  • Russel Norman

    Why is National in favour of native forest destruction?



    So much for blue-green. The Nats are opposed to DoC having an advocacy role. Yet DoC’s advocacy saves important bits of native bush. Below is an exchange from parliament yesterday in which National attacked DoC for protecting old growth kanuka and Chris Carter rightly defended DoC (and picked up on my blog from Wednesday about [...] read more
    October 19, 2007 3:15 pm - 20 Comments
  • Russel Norman

    Question time from yesterday regarding police raids



    KEITH LOCKE (Green) to the Minister of Police: Has she made any complaints over any aspect of police operations in the last week; if so, on what grounds? Hon ANNETTE KING (Minister of Police): No. There is a necessary separation between the Minister of Police and the Commissioner of Police over day-to-day policing decisions. This separation [...] read more
    October 19, 2007 1:47 pm - 52 Comments
  • frog

    Big wind to the rescue



    Contact energy’s plans to built a big momma (650 MW) wind farm in the Waikato is exactly the sort of thing we need to respond to ever rising oil prices and greenhouse gas emissions. A mini-me (100 MW) gas fired plant will also tag along, which is OK I suppose as it can be fired [...] read more
    October 18, 2007 5:37 pm - 62 Comments
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