
Mike Hosking on the Government's drive towards 100% renewable
On his breakfast show on NewstalkZB, Mike Hosking talked about the Government's drive towards 100% renewable electricity. He mentioned the Initiative's work in this area. Read more
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On his breakfast show on NewstalkZB, Mike Hosking talked about the Government's drive towards 100% renewable electricity. He mentioned the Initiative's work in this area. Read more
There is no chance it is deliberate. Deliberateness would require more coordination than government is able to manage these days. Read more
One bit of the Climate Commission’s draft advice, released in March, seemed particularly strange. The Commission worried that a surge in forest planting over the coming years would bring about a collapse in ETS prices in the 2030s and put New Zealand’s net zero commitments beyond 2050 at risk. Read more
After spending an embarrassing amount of time trying to figure out whether paying NZ Steel an enormous amount of money to install a new electric furnace made any kind of sense, I have finally come to a conclusion. If the subsidy does make sense, it would indicate severe problems in how industrial allocations have been handled. Read more
Federated Farmers and Beef & Lamb New Zealand have stepped-up their campaigns against carbon forestry. Federated Farmers objected to a Dutch company’s purchase of two sheep and beef farms for tree-planting, arguing it would mean fewer jobs and people in rural towns. Read more
Falling carbon prices have the Finance Minister seeking advice on the Emissions Trading Scheme. The ETS can and should be bulletproof. Read more
Mike Hosking discusses Roger Partridge's Sunday Star Times column about Environment Minister David Parker’s Resource Management Act reforms and the three extraordinary interventions during March that point to the reform’s inevitable demise. Read more
This month, Environment Minister David Parker’s Resource Management Act reforms will be consigned to the dustbin of history. Provided, that is, Prime Minister Chris Hipkins is listening. Read more
This submission in response to the Severe Weather Emergency Recovery Legislation Bill is made by The New Zealand Initiative (the Initiative), a Wellington-based think tank supported primarily by major New Zealand businesses. Read more
It’s hard to find fans of the Resource Management Act. But will the government’s proposed reforms be an improvement? Read more