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The Attitude Awards – A TABS Wake up Call
Yesterday was World Disability Day, and last night the inaugural Attitude Awards ceremony was held at Sky City. The TVNZ programme “Attitude” that celebrates the achievements of people living with impairments created the “Attitude Awards” which were sponsored by a range of businesses and ACC. One in five people in Aotearoa live with an impairment, [...]
Dolphin CSI - National crisis
Forest & Bird has released photos and data showing increased Hector’s and Maui’s dolphin mutilation:
Forest & Bird obtained data from DOC under the Official Information Act about the number of Hector’s and Maui’s dolphins found mutilated round New Zealand’s coastline. The records show there have been 36 cases of dolphins found mutilated since 1980, including [...]
‘RentExpress’ an express route to disaster
I am alarmed - to put it mildly - by this week’s news of a new company established with the sole purpose of making it easy for tenants to pay their rent by credit card.
Based in Auckland’s K’Rd, ‘RentExpress’ charges tenants a ‘small’ fee for the privilege of paying their rent on tick.
Landlords and property [...]
The Big Ask: Act Now!
Friends of the Earth and their friends have produced a moving video message for our politicians, The Big Ask. The video really says what needs to be said:
I have to ask of course, but is that Don Elder playing the suit? Now that the suits are in charge of new Zealand’s climate change negotiators and [...]
MAF warns Government
In the paper this morning I referred to the MAF briefing to the incoming Government released yesterday.The Government’s press release chose to focus on bland reassertion of the fact that agriculture is the back-bone of the economy as if someone had forgotten.
Far more topical is the briefing’s sage advice for our climate change negotiators in [...]
National rejects expert advice?
Yesterday I was informed that a number of officials have been dumped from the New Zealand Government delegation to the climate change talks in Poznan, Poland [PDF factsheet].
Apparently, a number of senior officials from the Ministry of Transport and the Ministry for the Environment who were all set to attend to advice our Ministers during [...]
Ethical Terminators
I love a good turn of phrase, and “ethical terminators” makes a good turn of phrase. It belongs with the joke about “military intelligence” being an oxymoron. The DomPost reported on this article from the Telegraph today. In an effort to reduce the incidence of war crimes, the US is hiring specialists to help give [...]
Upton warns of a laughing stock
Simon Upton writes a good critique of New Zealand’s climate change situation in today’s Dom Post. It must be amazing for the former National Party Minister who got us involved with the Kyoto process in the first place to watch as once again, we go back to square one in terms of our response to [...]
The writing’s on the dam wall
With consents granted to the Arnold hydro scheme (45MW), and now a new proposal for a dam on coal-mining land on the Stockton plateau (25MW), the primary rationale for Meridian’s Mokihinui Hydro Proposal (MHP) has been removed.
Meridian’s proposed MHP cites these benefits:
The Mokihinui Hydro Proposal would:
produce between 310 and 360 gigawatt [...]
Countdown to Copenhagen
Greenpeace has turned it’s front webpage into a giant countdown clock leading to Copenhagen to highlight how little time we have left to cut a real deal on climate change. I quite like it.
Temperature increases, global emissions and loss of ice at the Arctic and Antarctic have now overshot scientists’ worst case scenarios. [...]
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