moratorium Archive

  • Jeanette Fitzsimons

    Are the Wheels Falling Off the ETS? - by Jeanette Fitzsimons



    What started off as merely a flawed and highly complex system is getting progressively worse. After weeks of intensive hearings the implications are crystallising and the flaws becoming more apparent. At the same time the Government is engaged in a process of pandering to vested interests and watering down the scheme, notifying the select committee [...] read more
    May 14, 2008 1:19 pm - 48 Comments
  • frog

    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 more
    May 9, 2008 10:16 am - 32 Comments
  • frog

    Wall Street joins battle against global warming - by frog



    This from the February 2008 Issue of New Scientist magazine: ENVIRONMENTALISTS have a new, unlikely ally in the fight against global warming. A document signed on Monday by three of Wall Street’s largest banks – Citigroup, JPMorgan Chase and Morgan Stanley – requires anyone seeking money for new fossil-fuel power plants in the US to [...] read more
    February 15, 2008 12:34 pm - 11 Comments
  • frog

    All sectors but not all gases - by frog



    The government tabled its long touted Climate Change (Emissions Trading and Renewable Preference) Bill today in the house. The bill is intended to be the cornerstone of Labour’s suite of climate change response policies. It gets billed, if you’ll excuse the pun, as the world’s first “All Sectors, All Gases” emissions trading scheme. Unfortunately, this [...] read more
    December 4, 2007 1:05 pm - 15 Comments