Second activist arrested from animal feed cargo ship
Police make second arrest while expressing serious safety concerns for activists aboard a cargo ship off the Tauranga coast.
Police make second arrest while expressing serious safety concerns for activists aboard a cargo ship off the Tauranga coast.
The cost to taxpayers of the Government's ETS scheme could be four times more than predicted, says Phil Goff.
Business lobby groups welcomed proposed changes to the emissions trading scheme agreed by the Government and the Maori Party yesterday.
The Maori Party has come to the Government's aid to get a new emissions trading scheme (ETS) in place.
A Govt and the Maori Party deal on emissions trading legislation will halve the impact on power and petrol prices over the first two years of the scheme.
New Zealand has been rated as the world's fifth best-placed country in terms of coping with the effects of climate change.
National may seek support from Labour and the Greens to push through its new ETS by the end of the year.