<br><div class="gmail_quote"><b>NZ National Election now on Vote Climate</b>
<div class="gmail_quote"><div><br>I have completed the Vote Climate "At a Glance" - Policy Comparison for
the 2008 New Zealand / Aotearoa national elections. <br> <br>If you know people who are voting please send them to this site: <a href="http://voteclimate.org.au/USA-2008-Presidential" target="_blank"> http://voteclimate.org.au/</a> <br>
<br>In this election the NZ Greens Party is the stand out performer thought their goals are low (but still higher than anyone else) and include international offsetting. <br> <br>The other stand out is the ACT New Zealand
Party who are openly skeptical of climate change and hostile to climate change policy.<br><br>ACT New Zealand could well form a coalition government with the Nationals.<br><br>Here is a comment on climate change on the front page of their website.<br>
<br>"<b>Dump the Emissions Tax Scam</b><br><br>The Emissions Trading Scheme will wreck the economy with no
benefit for New Zealand or the world. ACT will repeal the ETS and pull
out of Kyoto.<br><br>
ACT will remove the thermal energy ban, cancel the tax on forestry
cutting and conversions, dump the arbitrary ad-hoc targets for
renewables and can the wasteful 'energy efficiency' subsidies.<br><br>ACT will insist that major infrastructure investments will not depend
on the anti-global warming hypothesis for viability."<br><br>See: <a href="http://www.act.org.nz/" target="_blank">http://www.act.org.nz/</a><br><br>You also might notice a lack of opposition to nuclear power plants. I suspect this is because it may be a given that this is true in the "nuclear free" New Zealand and thus not mentioned in policy.<br>
<br>Adrian Whitehead<br> </div><br></div></div><br>