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Weak ETS gives taxes to polluters
Tuesday, 15 September 2009, 9:58 am | Green Party
By using taxes to subsidise the polluters, New Zealand is going backwards while the rest of the world goes forward, the Green Party said today. “This is a bureaucratic way to take money from taxpayers and give to the big polluters without much environmental ... More >>
Waterview decision shows priorities back to front
Friday, 11 September 2009, 4:02 pm | Green Party
While the powerful road transport lobby will welcome today’s announcement of a $1.4 billion mixed surface and tunnel option for the Waterview motorway connection, Waterview School pupils, parents and other residents will be much less happy as many ... More >>
Brash & Bollard on the right track - Greens
Friday, 11 September 2009, 3:46 pm | Green Party
The Government needs to listen to warnings about another housing bubble from the current and former Reserve Bank Governors, said Green Party Co-Leader Dr Russel Norman today. Evidence given to the Parliamentary Banking Inquiry last week showed that ... More >>
OCR Cuts No Longer Enough
Wednesday, 9 September 2009, 1:12 pm | Green Party
Further cuts in the Official Cash Rate (OCR) tomorrow will not be enough to return our economy to a more prosperous and economically sustainable future, said Green Party Finance Spokesperson Russel Norman today. More >>
Ring fence not ring bark tree protection
Wednesday, 9 September 2009, 12:51 pm | Green Party
The Government’s last-minute changes to the Resource Management Act - released today - will hasten the chop for protected trees, despite public outcry and the Green Party’s efforts to negotiate a compromise. “While the Greens have suggested slowing ... More >>
MMP is fair for everyone
Monday, 7 September 2009, 4:04 pm | Green Party
MMP gives all New Zealanders a say and is fair for everyone. Voters need the full picture of its effectiveness before deciding its future, said the Green Party today. More >>
Serious concerns remain over Auckland SuperCity
Friday, 4 September 2009, 3:18 pm | Green Party
The SuperCity model proposed in the Local Government (Auckland Council) bill remains deeply flawed, said the Green Party today. “While some improvements have been made in increasing the powers and functions of local boards, a significant power imbalance ... More >>
Safety first approach needed with mercury fillings
Friday, 4 September 2009, 10:55 am | Green Party
New Zealand needs to take a safety first approach to the potentially dangerous use of mercury in fillings, said Sue Kedgley, Green Party Health Spokesperson said today. “At the very least New Zealand should be following the lead of the United Kingdom, ... More >>
New Zealand deserves clean air
Thursday, 3 September 2009, 1:03 pm | Green Party
The Government’s air quality standards have come under fire from the Green Party for not monitoring fine particle pollutants. “The National Government needs to get serious about keeping New Zealand’s air clean and introduce regulations around ... More >>
Kiwis can speak out on mining
Wednesday, 2 September 2009, 3:09 pm | Green Party
New Zealanders will have a chance to speak out against mining in their national parks, marine reserves and wildlife sanctuaries through a Green Party petition announced today. The petition will ask the Government to halt any plans for mining New Zealand’s ... More >>
Govt wants taxpayers to pay twice for emissions
Tuesday, 1 September 2009, 9:47 am | Green Party
The Government’s plan for the Emissions Trading Scheme (ETS) will mean that ordinary kiwis will have to pay twice for their emissions, the Green Party said today. “Far from choosing the most cost effective option, the Government is planning for failure, ... More >>
Transport Minister shuts door on reducing carbon
Monday, 31 August 2009, 10:16 am | Green Party
The Government has rejected one of the simplest and most effective ways of reducing New Zealand's carbon emissions, the Green Party said today. “Stephen Joyce's announcement that work will stop on fuel economy standards for vehicles coming into New Zealand ... More >>
Communities can fight Nat’s pillage of DOC land
Friday, 28 August 2009, 11:28 am | Green Party
The Green Party is calling on communities to defend their local heritage sites from pillage by mining companies. Minister of Energy and Resources Gerry Brownlee this week called for the most precious and significant land in New Zealand’s public ... More >>
Loads of roads programme is dinosaur thinking
Thursday, 27 August 2009, 4:33 pm | Green Party
The ‘loads of roads’ National Land Transport Programme will mire New Zealand in an outdated 1950s approach to transport and do nothing to protect us from rising oil prices, climate change, or the obesity epidemic. More >>
Greens welcome latest folic acid moves
Thursday, 27 August 2009, 10:22 am | Green Party
The Government's decision to defer mandatory fortification of bread sold in New Zealand with folic acid until 2011 is a prudent decision, and will give time to assess potential safety concerns around mandatory fortification, the Green Party’s Food Safety spokesperson ... More >>
Reject Boscawen’s bill
Wednesday, 26 August 2009, 4:35 pm | Green Party
A Member’s Bill to define violence against children is unnecessary and dangerous, Green Party MP Sue Bradford said today. “I call on all parties in Parliament to unilaterally reject John Boscawen’s bill amending the Crimes Act – it’s not ... More >>
Decent rail or Loads of Roads?
Wednesday, 26 August 2009, 2:11 pm | Green Party
Starvation rations for the rail network and supersized meals for the city’s roading network are on the menu for Aucklanders. More >>
Assurance for parents welcomed
Tuesday, 25 August 2009, 9:43 am | Green Party
Green Party MP Sue Bradford congratulated Prime Minister John Key on his decision this afternoon to stick to his principles on the section 59 reform, despite pressure from those who wish to relegalise assault on children. “Steps to increase people’s ... More >>
National listens to Hide, not the people
Tuesday, 25 August 2009, 9:25 am | Green Party
It is tragic that the National Party values Rodney Hide’s opinion more than that of the people of Auckland, especially Maori, the Green Party said today. “The majority of submitters to the Auckland Governance Committee, Maori and Pakeha alike, endorsed ... More >>
Fonterra misleading farmers on palm kernel claims
Monday, 24 August 2009, 3:42 pm | Green Party
Fonterra is contradicting the World Bank and misleading farmers in its attempts to justify the massive use of rainforest-destroying palm kernel on intensive dairy farms. “Fonterra is misleading New Zealanders and defying a World Bank report that found ... More >>
