National's changes to the ETS are before the select committee. It is the Finance & Expenditure Committee and they will be reporting back on the 16th November. Submissions are due by the 13th October. I would say it will be a pretty rushed process … [Read more...]
Rain forests significant producer of Nitrous Oxide
" We project that Basin-wide, the effect of clearing for pasture in the future will be a small reduction in total N2O emissions if the extensive pastures of the Amazon continue to be managed in a way similar to current practices." This conclusion … [Read more...]
Nitrous Oxide is a neat litle gas
Nitrous Oxide is laughing gas and it is laughable how it is being treated by journalists. Now called the most significant ozone depleting gas nitrous oxide's association with agriculture sees farmers now taking the rap for depleting the ozone layer … [Read more...]
Review of the Emission Trading Scheme & related matters
Surprise surprise we are going to have an ETS. The minority reports at the back from p95 on, are the key to this document because National can’t get this through without support from either ACT, Maori Party or Labour. The Maori Party tried to get … [Read more...]
Stock numbers in New Zealand dropping
With 1990 the base year for our emissions targets it makes one think about 1990 and what was happening in NZ at the time. We were all a lot younger of course and while it would be easy to think that life was more carefree back then it probably … [Read more...]
Green agenda is unsustainable
The Green's have released their action plan that they say will enable NZ to reduce our emissions cheaply. The two I will focus on are agriculture and forestry. They advocate reducing stock rates on dairy farms from 2.83 to 2.3 cows per hectare. this … [Read more...]
Jeanette Fitzsimons doesn't like what we are saying
Jeanette Fitzsimons asked this question in Parliament last week. It was heartening and it was to Dr Nick Smith, Minister of Climate Change Issues. Jeanette Fitzsimons: What plans does the Minister have to counter the misinformation repeatedly … [Read more...]
The shrinking sheep of Scotland
All over the world the news is breaking that on a rocky outpost 100 miles west of Scotland the sheep are shrinking. The island is called Hirta and the breed of sheep is Soay. They are the most primative domestic animal in Europe preserved unchanged … [Read more...]
Meat and Dairy under threat from misinformation
A study initiated by Fonterra has assessed the carbon footprint of every litre of milk it processes at 940 grams of CO2 equivalent. 85 % of these emissions are produced on farm, mostly as methane and nitrous oxide. All carbon footprint calculations … [Read more...]
Nitrous Oxide & DCD
Tuesdays NZ Herald carried this article called 'Farm Emissions Breakthrough'. It is about DCD and reducing nitrous oxide emissions Have a read and then read our press release. (the link is below )What we did not say in our press release is that the … [Read more...]