Extracts from a press release by Conservative Party
The Conservative Party has called on the government to repeal the Zero Carbon Act and end the Emissions Trading Scheme and all other climate-focused taxes, subsidies and regulations.
Party leader Helen Houghton made her comments following the resignation of Molesworth Station manager Jim Ward over the uncertainty of the control of wilding pines on the iconic high country station.
“Get rid of all this nonsense,” she said. “It makes it harder for our farmers to feed the world. It makes bit harder for industry. And it makes everything moire expensive for consumers. It is well past time to end this green war on New Zealanders.”
She questioned why Parliament was wasting its time persisting with the issue and described it as “big government thinking at its worst”. The reality was nothing is being achieved for the planet as it would not stop floods or drought and was just keeping New Zealand poor.
“We could cover the whole country with pines and it wouldn’t save the planet from anything. The only people who benefit are those making money from the system and the politicians who use it to grow their power, It really is time to ditch the delusion of fighting climate change – it is just driving an endless string of bad policy decisions.”
The ETS is the problem and the solution is simple – just get rid of it.
“Instead governments were making the system more and more complicated even introducing an annual ballot system to determine which land can be allocated carbon credits for new forest.”
Helen Houghton described the move as insane as it kept the price of carbon credits artificially high.
“The problem is the market distortion created by the ETS which inflates the value of forestry. The fact that Maori land needs to be exempted from the new restrictions to avoid breaching Treaty obligations should be a clue about how problematic the whole proposal is.”
Recent months have seen a rush of farmland being converted to forestry as speculators aimed to beat the introduction of new rules.
Helen Houghton – government moves “insane”
The climate change issue is a farce. John Key a money trader and wheeler and dealer created the ETS which is a playing field for speculators. There are some very good points made by Helen Houghton.