The BFD is very supportive of the fledgling Groundswell NZ protest movement and we encourage everyone who supports our Farmers, Growers and Tradies to put in an appearance if possible. As an amateur movement in its infancy, info has been a little slow in coming out but there is now
Thursday in select committee, Director-General Lou Sanson revealed that the Department of Conservation is in talks with the SPCA about establishing a cat curfew and a plan for dealing with feral cats, National’s Environment spokesperson Scott Simpson says. “I noted that DG Sanson pawsed before he admitted that it
Viv Forbes saltbushclub.com Viv Forbes has science and financial qualifications, experience in the energy business and the bureaucracy, has rooftop solar panels and a diesel generator, but no vested interests in hydrocarbon fuels except as a consumer. Viv is Executive Director of the Saltbush Club, Australia. Green Hydrogen is
Ronald Stein cfact.org Ron Stein is an engineer who, drawing upon 25 years of project management and business development experience, launched PTS Advance in 1995. He is an author, engineer, and energy expert who writes frequently on issues of energy and economics. As a reaffirmation of what Abraham Lincoln
Greens Party co-leader James Shaw described the farmer protest group Groundswell NZ based in Southland as “a group of pakeha farmers down south’’ He is also claiming that the statements that they have made about the the National Policy Statement for National Biodiversity are ” misinformation.” But he has failed to
Mark Cameron ACT Rural Affairs spokesperson A new Bill from the ACT Party drawn today will ensure the baton of environmental regulations is given to regional councils and taken out of the hands of Wellington bureaucrats. In recent years farmers have been hammered by regulations put in place by Government
National are broadly in agreement with the Government’s decision to phase out a range of particularly problematic plastics, National’s Environment spokesperson Scott Simpson says. “There won’t be many New Zealanders who don’t think we have too much plastic in our lives and that much of it,
In Michael Crichton’s State of Fear, an evangelistic environmental politician is confronted with an unpalatable truth: everything has environmental consequences. Nature is dynamic and competitive. Every action – even doing nothing – benefits some species and harms others. Crichton characterised human efforts to “manage” and “preserve” wildernesses as “a history of
Try to imagine a wealthy, privileged white person being carried through the streets on a litter borne on the backs of starving black children. Your average green-left “progressive” would have fifty fits. Yet this is, metaphorically, just what the climate-bothering green left do, every time they get behind the wheel
Hobson’s Pledge hobsonspledge.nz Some years ago, the Labour Government refused to take action to clear a channel so that the crater lake on Mount Ruapehu could drain safely, despite failure to do so risking the kind of disaster which destroyed scores of lives at Tangiwai in 1953. Why?
While it is encouraging to see that Labour have finally responded to the 2017 Sea Change report, the Government’s announcement bears the hallmarks of another shallow policy announcement, National’s Oceans and Fisheries spokesperson Tim van de Molen says. “New Zealand’s nearly four years under this Government is
In his excellent Basic Economics, Thomas Sowell argues that the fundamental principle of economics is scarcity. “Economics is the study of the use of scarce resources which have alternative uses.” As Sowell says, that “may seem like a simple thing, but its implications are often grossly misunderstood, even by highly
John Maunder Some of the answers to the complexities of the climate system are given in my recently published book Fifteen shades of climate… the fall of the weather dice and the butterfly effect. The following are extracts are from pages 197-201. The Greenlandic Vikings’ Apogee The Greenlandic Vikings’ apogee
