The ETS Review Panel’s report recommends that agriculture’s biological emissions be brought into the ETS as planned in 2015, with a few changes. Firstly that the two for one deal be extended so that in effect farmers will pay for 5 % of their … [Read more...]
Carbon Trading to favour Aussie Farmers
Phil O’Reilly and John Carnegie of Business NZ believe New Zealand and Australia should able to buy and sell each other's carbon credits. Australian carbon credits are created under the Carbon Farming Initiative and New Zealand carbon credits are … [Read more...]
Membership
I'd like to welcome new members who have responded to the advertisement in the Straight Furrow. It was a bit of a gamble with the advertisement costing over $500 but I was so angry after the Q& A programme and combined with my frustration at our … [Read more...]
Labour going to suck $4.8 billion out of agriculture
A perplexing weekend. I was watching Q & A, Paul Holmes was interviewing Don Nicholson the ACT candidate for Southland. Paul Holmes said that we need innovation and Labour’s $800 million R & D policy was good, and to fund it farmers were … [Read more...]
Methane not 21 times more potent than CO2 after all
Quite a lot to report on with Dr Wilson Flood throwing a spanner in the works. He is a Doctor of Chemistry from the UK. I will report more on this later. A quick précis is that the premise that methane is a greenhouse gas 21 times more effective than … [Read more...]
Misrepresentations, misinformation and Dairy NZ
From the Dairy NZ website Carbon goes through a series of cycles through pastoral systems, and ruminant animals do not add any new carbon to the atmosphere. But that is really unimportant because ruminants convert carbon dioxide to methane, the … [Read more...]
PHil Goff's plans for farmers.
Phil Goff announced Labour would bring agricultural livestock emissions into the ETS in 2013, two years ahead of the 2015 entry under National’s amended ETS. This would raise $800 million dollars for R & D, he said. A couple of flags went up for … [Read more...]
Save NZ from its own Government
The Climate people are gearing up for the next round of talks on an international agreement on climate change. This will happen in Durban at the end of the year. In all the correspondence I have had with politicians like Nick Smith and David Carter … [Read more...]
Livestock emissions continue to track downwards
Livestock emissions continue to track downwards, according to the just released New Zealand’s greenhouse gas inventory update for 2009. I loathe giving these CO2equivalents any credibility as a unit by using them but that is how methane and nitrous … [Read more...]
ETS Review
The ETS review panel has now received the submissions for its review. It will hear from a selected few before making their recommendations. I have asked to be heard on the 20 April. They are probably not too keen on hearing from too many, in fact I … [Read more...]
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