Words in the House over ETS support talks
So how are the support talks going to get votes to pass the emissions trading bill?
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On Thursday, the Government asked - and answered - questions about the emissions trading scheme.
View ArticleRow as Parker demands House sees ETS report
There was heated debate at Parliament yesterday over claims the ETS review select committee's report should have been immediately presented to the House under standing orders.
View ArticleIN THE HOUSE: Deal with Maori under scrutiny
Questions over the deal between the National and Maori parties have dominated environmental debates in Parliament this week.
View ArticleIN THE HOUSE: First reading, Climate Change Response (Moderated Emissions...
Climate Change Issues Minister Nick Smith: Mr Speaker, I move that the Climate Change Response (Moderated Emissions Trading) Amendment Bill now be read a first time.
View ArticleIN THE HOUSE: Maori Party ETS deal
Parliament yesterday discussed the potential impacts of the emissions trading scheme on Maori.
View ArticleMulti-party backing for admin bill to develop emissions trading market
Parliament has adopted a Commerce Select Committee report recommending changes to law which will allow the country's new emissions trading market to develop.
View ArticleETS: Shark swallows the Maori minnow
Speech in Parliament by Shane Jones, Labour list MP: There is a famous story in Te Ao Mâori. It is about a kahawai, not unlike the Mâori Party, and the great white shark. The great white shark said to...
View ArticleGovt under fire over southern lignite
The Government came under fire in Parliament this week for supporting plans for a lignite mine in Southland while talking about how the world should phase out subsidies for fossil fuels.
View ArticleGreens demand subsidy answers
The Government is being accused of subsidising the fossil fuel industry while at the same time campaigning internationally for an end to fossil fuel-industry subsidies.
View ArticleWe're late, but no worries, says Smith
New Zealand might have missed the deadline for submissions on increasing international emissions reduction levels, but Climate Change Minister Nick Smith says it's not a problem.
View ArticleJoyce slams businessmen's report
Economic Development Minister Stephen Joyce says the Pure Advantage business group is just looking for subsidies for businesses it likes.
View ArticleGreens probe fossil-fuel subsidies
The Government is being accused of undermining its own policy to cut fossil-fuel subsidies, by encouraging oil exploration and giving free carbon credits to internationally exposed emitters.
View ArticleGreens: Why NZ was a failure at Rio
New Zealand has failed to live up to the commitments to sustainable development it made 20 years ago at the Rio Earth Summit, the Green Party says.
View ArticleIs ETS a scheme or a scam, ask Greens
New Zealand's emissions trading scheme could be renamed the emissions trading scam, Parliament has heard.
View ArticleKey defends climate change actions
Prime Minister John Key says that he takes criticism of New Zealand's actions on climate change with a grain of salt.
View ArticleKey's climate change answers anger Greens
Prime Minister John Key was challenged in Parliament this week over why he didn't mention climate change in his outline of Government priorities for the year.
View ArticleQuestion for PM: UN is serious, are you?
Green Party MP Kennedy Graham told Parliament this week that the United Nations Security Council is starting to consider climate change a serious risk.
View ArticleDon't blame biofuels, says minister
The Government is denying its decision to scrap the biofuels obligation contributed to Solid Energy's financial meltdown.
View ArticleMinister defends Denniston decisions
Conservation Minister Nick Smith says he deliberately approved Bathurst Resources' mining application for the Denniston Plateau just one day before the new Crown Minerals Act came into effect.
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