Lifting Our Sights: ACT Party on the ETS
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Wed Sep 21 2011 12:00:00 GMT+1200 (New Zealand Standard Time)
Lifting Our Sights: ACT Party on the ETS
Wednesday, 21 September 2011, 2:13 pm
Column: ACT New Zealand
Lifting Our Sights: ACT Party on the ETS
The Emissions Trading Scheme imposes significant costs on all New Zealanders. We need our exporters to lead the way out of our economic crisis – instead we are shooting them in the foot.
Families are paying more for power, fuel and food due to the ETS. Last week’s ETS Advisory Committee’s report recommended the Government slow down the Scheme's implementation. This won’t help those already suffering.
Whatever you believe about climate change, it makes zero sense for New Zealand to try to lead the world with this ‘all sectors, all gasses’ shambles of a Scheme. Consider these facts:
• We produce just 0.2% of the whole world’s greenhouse gas emissions
• None of our major trading partners have anything similar to our ETS
• The ETS has caused electricity prices to spike by 5%
• It has forced petrol prices up by 4 cents per litre, which will double by 2013
On top of this, the average dairy farmer is paying an extra $4,000 each year in diesel and electricity costs. This will rise to over $10,000 annually if they start being taxed for animals’ natural bodily functions.
It is preposterous to think that our ETS will make any tangible difference to global warming - but it is making a major difference to our bank accounts.
ACT will fight to dump the Emissions Trading Scheme, or have it suspended until our major trading partners catch up.
ACT NOW to fight this madness. Party vote ACT.
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Click here to read ACT’s response to the Advisory Committee’s report.
Click here to read ACT’s Primary Production Spokesman Don Nicolson’s press release.
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On Sunday 29 August, the ACT Party announced its list for the 2011 general election. For more information on our top candidates, click here
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This edition's featured candidate:
STEPHEN WHITTINGTON
List ranking: 8
Stephen Whittington currently works in the tax law team for a large corporate firm in Wellington City. Previously Stephen worked as an advisor to Hon Sir Roger Douglas in Parliament.
Stephen holds a LLB (Hons) and a BA in Latin from The Victoria University of Wellington.
He is a two-time winner of both the New Zealand Impromptu University Debating Championships and the New Zealand Prepared Debating Championships. Internationally, Stephen has twice made the Grand-Final of the Australasian Intervarsity Debating Championships, featuring teams from Australia, New Zealand, and Asia. He has been named as one of the top ten speakers in Australasia, and in 2009 was named as the 15th best speaker in the world.
ENDS
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