
PM tells farmers to accept $3k ETS cost, stop moaning
John Key urged farmers to be less agitated about the ETS and tackling climate change in an address to Federated Farmers today.
John Key urged farmers to be less agitated about the ETS and tackling climate change in an address to Federated Farmers today.
John Key will be offered $4781 by Lucy Lawless and Jim Salinger in an attempt to get him to a climate change conference in Denmark.
MPs are pointing to a $50bn increase in the estimated cost of the Govt's proposed ETS changes as evidence of the process being rushed.
A report out today says the government's Emissions Trading Scheme (ETS) could cost twice as much as originally estimated.
Taxpayers will be stuck with 84 per cent of NZ's Kyoto Protocol bill, while farmers and industrial emitters get hefty subsidies, a study says.
Air NZ chief executive Rob Fyfe has lashed out at dithering over cutting emissions, described climate talks as a 'bureaucratic circus'.