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  • Jeanette Fitzsimons

    Farming and the ETS – the latest from the select committee - by Jeanette Fitzsimons



    Yesterday we heard all the farming related submissions. Federated Farmers continued to be the most extreme – agriculture should be entirely left out of the ETS because food production is important. But in NZ methane and nitrous oxide from farming are the large half (51%) of our emissions. Leaving them out means taxpayers fork out a hefty subsidy to farming, or other energy users pay twice as much as they otherwise would. read more
    May 6, 2009 7:30 am - 112 Comments
  • frog

    The environmental case for cask wine - by frog



    I never thought I would be writing this. I confess to liking a drop or two of the good stuff, and thought I had done my bit for the environment by forgoing those pesky corks for plastic plugs. Chris Higgins of MentalFloss argues the case for the cask: In the U.S., wine sold in a [...] read more
    August 19, 2008 3:31 pm - 27 Comments