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The Government’s consultation on protecting our ocean has taken place in the shadow of the oil, gas and mining industry. A number of Government proposals on marine protection point to the undue influence of this industry, and have turned the … Read More

Over the weekend David Seymour released a flagship ACT environmental policy – to sell Landcorp in order to build predator free sanctuaries. His ultimate aim is to ‘bring back the birdsong’ – restore the dawn chorus to what Cook intended. … Read More

Congratulations to all those who contributed to the Awaroa crowdfunding campaign – you got your wish. I have no intention to question how people spend their money, but I do think that the price paid was too high – both … Read More

Over the weekend Paula Bennett gave her first speech as climate change Minister. How did she rate? A couple of her statements were very promising, but much of it was a continuation of the ‘do nothing and make excuses’ approach … Read More

In yesterday’s blog we looked at all that was good in the Government’s latest fresh water proposals. Today we look at the shortcomings, which can generally be summarised as ‘too little, too late’. Most of these problems were glaringly obvious … Read More

On Saturday Nick Smith released the latest document in what has been a barrage of consultation from his Ministry for the Environment: this time on fresh water. Predictably the reaction of the Opposition has been negative, saying the Government isn’t … Read More

As we saw in our last blog, in order to meet our 2030 target we need to start acting immediately. International trade might help a little, but regardless we need to be net zero carbon by 2050, 2100 at the … Read More

Reading between the lines for the Government’s review of the emissions trading scheme it’s easy to detect the admission of a cock-up. By allowing our scheme to get flooded by cheap, fraudulent foreign credits, the Government has spent the last … Read More