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Nick Smith Calls Meridian and LandCare frauds - by frog
With the stroke of a pen, Nick Smith is calling Meridian Energy and LandCare Research frauds and painting emissions offsetting as modern day hocus-pocus. I guess this means that National has gone completely off the boil for emissions trading and is willing to come clean on their policy of climate change denial. He then goes [...] read moreJune 13, 2008 12:32 pm - 25 Comments -
Scrapping the thermal moratorium is a bad idea - by frog
The NBR reports that the Nats are doing a deal with Labour to scrap the moratorium on new thermal generation in exchange for supporting the ETS through the House. In truth, only a grand coalition could possibly get an ETS through the House. However, I still think that the moratorium, (it’s not a ban, just [...] read moreMay 9, 2008 10:16 am - 32 Comments
