Dear Editor I must credit Hon W. Peters with having some concern for the environment. He has announced a fund, small in relation to the problem, but nevertheless a significant amount. Social pressure on the MPs by concerned conservationists (real people, not DoC staff) has resulted in finance to research
I read the Guardian so you don’t have to. Mostly, it’s a labour of very little love. But occasionally it manages to actually surprise me – in a good way. One such happy surprise is the following story, in which the Grauniad almost manages to admit that Greenpeace is
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50 Shades of Green – NZ Eve McCallum On the 14th of November, a group of New Zealand Farmers protested in Wellington. This copy of the speech notes of Eve McCallum was taken from the 50 Shades of Green Facebook page. We are real people, we are families, and we are
Xbolt Just read this speech from a Farmer (Mr Lincoln Grant) who was at the protest this week outside Parliament. It’s a bit long but interesting. The ETS scheme is a rort of magnitude 10. Shame on any Government that participates. I am Lincoln Grant. We farm a 600ha
Meet Marcail Parkinson, today’s crybaby of the week and a normal teen, especially when it comes to wailing on about plastic. Walking down a supermarket aisle lined with plastic wrappers is enough to set off “massive anxiety” for Marcail Parkinson. The 17-year-old Auckland high school student feels
The Greens really are a party of opportunistic grubs. As if they hadn’t scraped the bottom of their slimy barrel of phony sanctimony already when they fell over themselves to exploit the terrible bushfires in Queensland and NSW, the Greens had to sink one step lower into the ooze.
Viv Forbes Viv Forbes has science and financial qualifications and long experience in mining, farming, weather cycles, bushfires and politics in Australia. He was an active member of the Mt Walker bush fire brigade for about 25 years. He remembers the terrible Millennium drought and he and his wife fought
The clown show that is Australia’s most “progressive” state and its failing, ruinously expensive electricity market just keeps getting funnier. It’s like a little Venezuela, right on our doorstep. As I recently reported, Victorians are going to be very lucky to escape massive power shortages this summer, and
Australia’s goldfish-brained journalists and politicians act predictably and stupidly, every summer. It’s Australia: it gets hot, there are bushfires. Every decade or so, there are mega-fires. And, every time, the memory-challenged idiots in newsrooms and electoral offices act with the same, predictable faux-horror and
I spent a lot of my childhood camping and hiking around the Otway ranges in the Australian state of Victoria’s south-west. This was one of the main regions devastated by the horrifying Ash Wednesday fires. I well recall the dense pile-up of fuel loads in the years
Dear Editor I expect that may of the BFD’s readers will be aware of the Maunga authority’s move to fell the “exotic” trees from Mt Albert/Owairaka, but they may not be aware that there are plans to apply the same policy to all of the maunga under
One of my farming friends used to say, “Never criticise farming while you’ve got a full belly”. While a bit long on self-righteousness (the same farmer also freely acknowledges that many farmers are prone to whinging and demanding handouts), there is a rock-solid foundation of truth: without
Viv Forbes Viv Forbes has science and financial qualifications and long experience in mining, farming, geological history, weather cycles, business and politics in Australia. He has no vested interests in any energy industries except as a consumer. Alarmist Over-reach For over 15 years the global warmists have become progressively
