by frog
Right, I’m back from the Green Party conference. (Oh, talking of which you should listen to Kiwi FM’s Wallace Chapman talking to Scoop’s Selwyn Manning on the Greens’ Conference over the weekend).
Seems the one of the big news stories for the week will be World Environment Day. The Prime Minister, gearing up for World Environment Day tomorrow, started off her speech to a business symposium on the Emissions Trading Scheme well this morning:
I see climate change as one of the biggest environmental and political challenges of our time. It is a truly global issue which impacts on all countries, all economies, and all people.
The sheer scale of the challenge and the way in which it affects all of us, from householders through to multi-nationals, means we need comprehensive responses, which are inclusive of all sectors in the community.
Then after a bit more of this sort of rhetoric and a bit of praise for Green Party initiated energy efficiency schemes she gets down to policy:
One change to the Bill which the government is advocating to the select committee is to delay…
The government is also proposing to review…
A further change proposed by government is to delay…
Then once she has placated the major carbon polluters with policy she returns to rhetoric for the rest of us:
The effect of delaying implementation of the scheme would be to increase the proportion of the cost of emissions borne by the taxpayer. …Delay also deprives business of the certainty it needs to plan ahead.
That’s why our government doesn’t favour the calls from some to slow down implementation of the scheme, or to become a mere ‘fast follower’ on emissions trading. We believe there are far more gains from being a leader than being a follower.
Confused?
Published in Economy, Work, & Welfare | Environment & Resource Management | Parliament by frog on Wed, June 4th, 2008
Tags: , Carbon, cliamte change, Emissions Trading Scheme, fast follower, Helen Clark, prime minister, World Environment Day
on the trolls and those who are unable to keep on topic
Yup
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Frog, you’re forgetting something. We’re the best in the world, and leaders. We have to delay, so we can be the best, and lead the world.
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Helen Clark, wants the sustainability image, and the coal, steel, diary, cement etc money.
She wants polluting industries, high carbon economics and pollution, and green images for tourism. there is a fundamental contradiction going on here.
One that Jeanette pointed out in parliament very recently.
Kick the Carbon Habit…. Why doesn’t labour start at home, and fund renewable energy over fossil fuels…..
and have a look at NZ’s coal industry (imports from Indonesia, exports to China, Japan, Australia and UK etc)…
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Confused?
Nope.
Whatever Labour says is a load of old rubbish. If you hadn’t figured that one out by now you must be frequently confused.
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No more than any other party. The Greens also offer us our cake for having and eating too.
The cost of reducing carbon emissions is (according to the Greens rhetoric)going to be carried by “major carbon polluters”, whilst the “Kiwi Consumer” is going to be unaffected. Never to mind that Kiwi “major carbon polluters” are some of the more efficient users of carbon per unit of production and the average “Kiwi Consumer” has a near planet topping carbon footprint. The Greens promise that by punishing the efficient and protecting the inefficient AGW will be stopped.
For instance the Greens are demanding a reduction of emissions from NZ dairy herd and a greater availability of dairy produce to consumers.
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“She wants polluting industries, high carbon economics and pollution, and green images for tourism. there is a fundamental contradiction going on here.”
Mainly in that in a few short years there wont be a tourism industry, so the tourism image wont be important any longer.
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