Recent statements by Naida Glavish, chair of Ngati Whatua, are extremely worrying for those of us who care about the survival of the last of the maui dolphins. The maui are being killed by set nets but restrictions on set nets would affect some fishing. It would not be the end of fishing but just the end of […]
Last night Parliament was debating the biofuel sales obligation. The Greens pushed hard to get an amendment to the bill to ensure that all biofuel supplies are sustainable. As Jeanette said:
“However not all biofuels are environmentally sound. The Green Party is totally opposed to the clearing of old growth tropical rainforest, the last refuge of […]
In the lead up to the UN Climate Conference in Bali in December, Greenpeace has established a Forest Defenders Camp in the jungles of Sumatra to draw attention to forest destruction. Deforestation is responsible for 20% of global greenhouse emissions and means that Indonesia is the third biggest greenhouse emitting country, after the US and […]
Three weeks ago the National Party and Federated Farmers attacked the Department of Conservation’s advocacy for a large area of native forest on Waikatea, a Northern Hawkes Bay farm. FedFarmers called DOC a “bully”, and called for “removing tax payer funded advocacy”. National said “it is an absolute disgrace that DOC is continuing to meddle […]
On a slightly lighter note from the Onion:
October 13, 2007 HAZELWOOD, MO—Twenty-six years after Ronald Reagan first set his controversial fiscal policies into motion, the deceased president’s massive tax cuts for the ultrarich at last trickled all the way down to deliver their bounty, in the form of a $10 bonus, to Hazelwood, MO car-wash […]
The blogosphere has been running hot since the police raids on Monday. Speculation has been rife and all sort of theories seem to be floating around. The truth of what did or did not happen will one day become apparent, but for now there are more important issues at stake. Namely, the potential for the […]