A vote for the environment
If the environment could vote, which party’s box would it tick? Well, environmental organisations up and down the country have got together and rated all the parties’ policies for their Vote for the Environment campaign. Launched this morning by the Environment and Conservation Organisations of New Zealand (ECO), Forest & Bird and Greenpeace, the campaign rates all the parties on whether they will:
- Improve New Zealand’s biosecurity
- Make NZ’s energy system climate friendly and sustainable
- Expand education for sustainability
- Improve environmental management
- Protect our lakes, rivers and streams
- Keep GM organisms in the lab
- Create more high country parks
- Advance international environmental efforts
- Tackle the oceans and fisheries crisis
- Ensure DOC has the resources and support it needs
- Improve public access for recreation
- Clean up and prevent toxic pollution
The marks they give each party are as follows:
| Party | % | Grade |
| Greens | 97% | A+ |
| Maori | 83% | A |
| Progressive | 81% | A |
| Labour | 61% | B- |
| NZ First | 50% | C |
| United | 48% | D |
| National | 43% | D |
| Act | 10% | F |
The Vote for the Environment website is up with a great deal of information, though the party ratings haven’t been put up yet. Worth a visit…
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August 29th, 2005 at 12:01 pm
So tell us Frog, how is it that you don’t support the environment?
Where’d that 3% shortfall come from?
August 29th, 2005 at 2:44 pm
yeah! you explained where the greens failed on morality in 97% Immoral:
http://blog.greens.org.nz/index.php/2005/08/15/97-immoral/
and the similar forest and bird conservation policy survey (where we only got 91%):
http://blog.greens.org.nz/index.php/2005/08/19/we-all-care-about-the-e nvironment/
had a link to the original source so we could find out for ourselves but this one doesn’t.
August 29th, 2005 at 2:59 pm
an organisation pretending to give information which in fact propagander usually have end up opposite effect fwwog, like we know it biased so scorecard you get E
minus 12,00 votes fwwog
August 29th, 2005 at 5:43 pm
All the info is up on that web site now… The Greens lost a point (the parties are awarded a score out of 4 for each criteria) in…
“Increase the capacity of the New Zealand Biosecurity Authority to protect New Zealand from pests and diseases by $50m / year in new funding ramped up over 3-5 years with greater capacity for marine biosecurity.”
“Remove the barriers to public participation by properly funding environmental legal aid under the RMA and other environmental statutes and best practice support for councils, community groups and iwi ($5million in extra money). ”
and
“Significantly increase funding for the Nature Heritage Fund with a special allocation of $30 million annually for whole property purchases in the high country.”
August 30th, 2005 at 2:22 pm
Vote Eco-Fascism!
A website has been created that asks you to Vote for the Environment! Actually, it says it asks you to “vote for the environment” but what it actually asks you to vote for are authoritarians and troglodytes claiming to speak on behalf of ‘the enviro…