Archive for November 20th, 2007

Christchurch plans for peak oil and climate change

Tuesday, November 20th, 2007

While Michael Cullen and the central government dither on the possibility of peak oil, Environment Canterbury is taking it very seriously and making provisions for it in all future planning:
“Our ever increasing dependence on energy coincides at a time when New Zealand (and Canterbury) is facing significant future uncertainty in the area of availability of […]

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Campaign of oppression

Tuesday, November 20th, 2007

The Green Party sometimes gets (falsely) accused of being melodramatic or of exaggerating environmental or social ills for political effect. Last week however Federated Farmers claimed that “New Zealanders are starting to wake up to the fact that the government is waging a campaign of oppression against High Country farmers“. Anyone not actually in New Zealand […]

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