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National Party MP Stuart Smith has described a government climate change plan as the science of bullsh t during a talk in Ashburton this week.
National Party Kaikōura MP and climate change spokesman Stuart Smith told attendees at an Ashburton public meeting that critical analysis by Niwa had been left out of the National Climate Change Risk Assessment.
Photo: LDR / Adam Burns
Suggestions that warmer temperatures would not cause an increase in extreme rain events, contrary to the government s National Climate Change Risk Assessment (NCCRA) plan were floated by the Kaikōura MP during his presentation.
Smith, who is the National Party s climate change spokesperson, confirmed that he was making official parliamentary enquiries with Climate Change Minister James Shaw around the legitimacy of the report during the meeting which sparked several heated reactions from patrons.
Marc Daalder of Newsroom.co.nz11:57, Jul 29 2021
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Fletcher Building received 144,000 carbon credits more than it was meant to be allocated.
The Government has over-allocated carbon credits worth a minimum of $5 million to Fletcher Building over the past three years, Marc Daalder reports. A 2020 report into the Government s free allocation of carbon credits to trade-exposed industrial emitters found that Fletcher Building s cement operation was among the companies benefitting from an over-allocation of units as a result of outdated data. While many of the specifics in the report have been redacted over commercial confidentiality concerns, a
Newsroom analysis of the figures indicate Fletcher Building has received at least 144,000 carbon credits above what it was intended to get for its cement production between the 2016/17 and 2018/19 financial years.
Members of the Banks Peninsula Native Forest/Climate Change group this month met with Climate Change Minister James Shaw to outline the difficulties they face. Projects that followed in Hinewai’s footsteps allowed native bush to grow back on its own without any planting, using gorse as a nurse plant. But members told Shaw many were struggling to meet ETS guidelines.
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Rod Donald Banks Peninsula Trust manager Suky Thompson makes her way down the Te Ahu Pātiki block. The trust needed money from carbon credits to help pay for ongoing fencing and pest control but in an assessment previous landowners had done, just 62 of its 500ha would qualify, manager Suky Thompson said.
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