Fonterra CEO Miles Hurrell has come out and said that Fonterra supports the proposed emission pricing scheme He Waka Eke Noa (HWEN), in which dairy farmers will have to pay tens of thousands of dollars for emissions of methane which are already at … Read More...
No cow, sheep, pig, or goat has ever managed to create carbon from nothing.
They produce products by using carbon taken out of the air which is then stored away in the bones of growing children, in carpets and furniture and clothing. This means greenhouse gas levels in the atmosphere can not increase due to the presence of ruminants; they can only decrease if anything. The agricultural emissions that they claim make up 48.5% of NZ’s greenhouse gas emissions do not exist. They then confuse these theoretical emissions with real carbon emissions such as those from oil and gas; And they lump them all together and the result is a complete farce.
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Focus on methane emissions from Dairy unjustified
The Ministry for the Environment released the latest NZ Inventory of Greenhouse gases, or as it is now being called by the Ministry “Te Tarangi Haurehu Kati Mahana a Aotearoa” They do kindly still put the English title in small print underneath, but … Read More...
What He Waka Eke Noa has got wrong Part 4(B)
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