Submitted by climaterealists on Sun, 23/05/2010 - 19:10
Dear Prime Minister
I wrote to you last week requesting a meeting with you while you were in Gisborne if your timetable allowed. I realised this was a highly unlikely outcome, so we had a ‘Plan B’ in reserve.
Now that I have seen your schedule for your visit to Gisborne I am amazed how much you squashed in. It begs the question as to whether wisdom would dictate you concentrated on issues of greater urgency.
Plan B was the group holding placards that greeted you at the airport. This group was small and by invitation only. It was deliberately low profile as a warning to you that you are not getting the real message of the sentiment of your electors, the people who elected you to power and who consequently hold the key to whether you stay in power in November 2011.
Submitted by climaterealists on Sun, 23/05/2010 - 19:07
Nick, I’ve listened with increasing interest to your disingenuous
attempts to disown your comments from 2005 when you said this:
“The madness of the Government’s new carbon tax is that New Zealanders
will be the only people in the world paying it. It will drive up the
costs of living and undermine the competitiveness of New Zealand
business for negligible environmental gain.
“Labour Ministers may take pride in being toasted at International
Submitted by climaterealists on Thu, 20/05/2010 - 22:16
The Carbon Sense Coalition today called for an end to the colossal waste of community resources and energy on research and development for “Carbon Capture and Burial”.
The Chairman of “Carbon Sense”, Mr Viv Forbes, said that billions of dollars are being wasted on sacrifices to the global warming god - endless bureaucracy, politicised research, piddling wind and solar schemes, roof insulation disasters, ethanol subsidies, carbon credit forests, carbon trading frauds and huge compliance costs.
“But perhaps the biggest waste of all is the futile quest to capture carbon dioxide from power stations, separate it, compress it, pump it long distances and force it down specially drilled bore holes, hoping it will never escape.
Submitted by climaterealists on Thu, 20/05/2010 - 22:14
John Key I am utterly flabbergasted that you are continuing with the ETS in the knowledge that the basis for this bill has been totally repudiated, the hypothesis of the UN that human produced CO2 is responsible for global warming has been shown to be totally false and was based on contrived and manipulated data, as born out by Phil Jones’s admission on BBC radio; that all warming experienced since the early 1800’s was of natural origin. How can you continue to justify the need to impose increased costs on the citizens of this nation when the supposed reason for doing so has never existed?
Submitted by climaterealists on Thu, 20/05/2010 - 22:12
For 40 years I have been a voter and observer of the political scene in this country. I remember past political manoeuvring and promises made, bills passed supposedly to enhance our nations future, but failing miserably, reforms to health, education etc, by one party being turned over by the other party, wasting billions of dollars and causing widespread disruption and chaos.
There was a hope MMP would bring some stability to government here, how misguided we were. Politics and politicians haven’t changed. Today’s politician can not remember what they said last week let alone 18mths -2years ago, what they opposed then they now embrace, what was idiotic and stupid is now desirable. They make vague promises and speak words like; equality with Australia, the need to increase productivity and make this nation into the Pacific jewel, yet all the while their actions show they are working to bring this nation to its knees. The North American Indians had a phrase for this “Paleface speak with forked tongue”
Submitted by climaterealists on Thu, 20/05/2010 - 22:11
Submitted by climaterealists on Thu, 20/05/2010 - 22:09
John Boscawen MP, ACT New Zealand
Press Release
Friday, May 7 2010.
Submitted by climaterealists on Thu, 20/05/2010 - 22:08
Marlborough Express
by Blair Ensor 7 May 2010
The Government is "conning" the public as it forges ahead with an Emissions Trading Scheme (ETS), despite Australia delaying its own scheme until 2013, says ACT MP and climate change spokesman John Boscawen.
Speaking at the Marlborough Federated Farmers annual meeting at the Copthorne Hotel yesterday afternoon, Mr Boscawen said the Government had made a number of "misleading, contradictory, and inconsistent justifications for continuing full steam ahead".
"Do not be fooled by any amount of National Party spin."
Submitted by climaterealists on Thu, 20/05/2010 - 22:06
4 May 2010
Dear John Key,
Re: ETS
My husband and I farm a 965ha sheep & beef, summer dry hill country in Hawkes Bay. It is part of the original family farm my parents bought 40 years ago and worked hard to pass on to the next generation.
I am one of four children, so non farming siblings have to be paid out. We have four children and like my parents would like our life’s work and family farm to pass on to the next generation. The way things are going we can’t see how any of them are going to be able to farm on their own accord unless they win lotto.
It is really tough out there, not just us sheep and beef farmers, but for the whole agricultural industry and the industries that support it.
With the economic downturn, the dollar and the droughts (which we have to deal with because that is the area we live in), everyone we know has had a guts full and the ETS will be the last straw and the end of family farming as we know it.
Submitted by climaterealists on Thu, 20/05/2010 - 21:48
Carbon Sense
Nick Smith’s ETS is out of control. What was supposed to be a response to global warming has taken on a purpose that surpasses and replaces the original environmental reasons for which it was born.
Nick Smith stated in Parliament a while ago that foresters now have a property right to the carbon credits created by the Government ETS legislation and a Government can not take away a property right.
These property rights and the liability they create for the Government was given as the reason the Government gives for persisting with the July 1 phase in to the ETS of transport and electricity, despite Australia abandoning its scheme. They need the money to pay the foresters.
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