ETS: National knows overseas consumers the key
ETS: National knows overseas consumers the key
Feeling the financial pinch from the emissions trading scheme? Didn't think so.
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Carbon credits sold to Europe
Carbon credits sold to Europe
A Southland forestry company has secured its private investors a multimillion-dollar sale of carbon credits, after it recently closed a deal with an unspecified European government.
ETS: The numbers
ETS: The numbers
Burning fossil fuels and clearing forests have lifted the carbon dioxide (CO2) levels in the atmosphere to 35% higher than before industrialisation, and other "greenhouse gases" such as methane and nitrous oxide from agriculture are also increasing.
Freighting it to you will add up
Freighting it to you will add up
Be ready to pay more for your bread, your milk, your vehicle - in fact, be prepared to pay more for just about everything that has been freighted to wherever you buy it.
Kai Point expects prices to escalate
Kai Point expects prices to escalate
Southerners will not know the true cost of the emissions trading scheme until at least this time next year, Kai Point Coal general manager Chris O'Leary says.
ETS will affect every part of economy: expert
ETS will affect every part of economy: expert
Tony Marshall has a couple of boys, a couple of heat pumps, and a couple of cars, and he knows looking after each of them will be affected in some way by the emissions trading scheme.
Trees part of business balancing act
Trees part of business balancing act
Emission units, or carbon credits, can be bought by a business from a forest owner or through a broker, allowing the owner to emit greenhouse gas.
Year of being clean, green costs $165 a home
Year of being clean, green costs $165 a home
Doing our bit to save the planet, as Climate Change Issues Minister Nick Smith calls it, will cost every New Zealand household on average $165 a year from today, as the emissions trading scheme comes into force.
PM puts ETS case to farmers
PM puts ETS case to farmers
Prime Minister John Key made the ultimate climate change sales pitch to what should have been a hostile audience of farmers in Invercargill yesterday.
Govt must cast aside ETS
Govt must cast aside ETS
There are just seven days left for the Government to show some logic and common sense and to defer, at least, or abandon, at best, the costly, stupid and useless emissions trading scheme (ETS).
Farmers still hitting the streets over ETS
Farmers still hitting the streets over ETS
The Emissions Trading Scheme (ETS) comes widely into force late next week, but farmers from around the country are still hitting the streets in protest.
MP queries power reforms
MP queries power reforms
Contact's latest and "alarming" power price increase suggests electricity reforms have failed and should push the Government one step closer to a comprehensive inquiry, Dunedin South MP Clare Curran says.
Rural tensions increasing over ETS
Rural tensions increasing over ETS
Cracks began to appear in the Government's traditional rural support base over the introduction of the emissions trading scheme (ETS) as farmers took to the streets in Balclutha yesterday and a National Party branch chairman threatened to resign.
ETS still on ACT party hit-list
ETS still on ACT party hit-list
With less than three weeks until the emissions trading scheme (ETS) starts, the ACT party is still determined to see it delayed.
ETS changes offer opportunities
ETS changes offer opportunities
Opportunities come from change.
'Big oil' tag rankles new owner
'Big oil' tag rankles new owner
The new owners of Shell are not happy about being lumped in with "big oil" by Australian-owned Gull and are working on a strategy to stake out their New Zealand credentials.
ETS won't affect medium-term inflation: Reserve Bank
ETS won't affect medium-term inflation: Reserve Bank
The Reserve Bank has told the Government it won't take account of an inflation spike caused by the emissions trading scheme.
ETS 'elephant in the room'
ETS 'elephant in the room'
So, it's started already. Mercury Energy and Contact Energy this week announced they were raising their prices as of July 1, the day our ridiculous emissions trading scheme (ETS) comes into effect.
RWNZ calls for ETS delay
RWNZ calls for ETS delay
Rural Women New Zealand members have called on the Government to delay implementation of the emissions trading scheme (ETS).
ACT's emissions figures misleading, says Smith
ACT's emissions figures misleading, says Smith
The ACT Party's claims about rising costs in the agriculture sector from 2013 under the emissions trading scheme (ETS) are misleading, Climate Change Minister Nick Smith said today.