In 2019 Green co-leader James Shaw defended his high international travel expenses, explaining it’s offset by planting trees and informing the public that the Green Party offsets all travel through tree-planting, something he said he’d “recommend people do”.
So earlier this week I asked the Green Party how much each Green MP had offset their air travel by way of tree-planting or other means for each of the years 2021, 2022 and 2023. The party’s response was to direct me to a parliamentary press release from 2020 which stated that Parliament would be installing solar PV on the roof of the historic Parliament House and that the savings made through this initiative would be used to offset MP’s travel.
However, the project was delayed and the panels were only finally installed in stages on the roof of Parliament House over the last six months of 2022!
So the reality is that the Greens were not offsetting their carbon emissions, despite insisting everyone else must move to be carbon neutral.
David Farrar runs Curia Market Research, a specialist opinion polling and research agency, and the popular Kiwiblog where this article was sourced. He previously worked in the Parliament for eight years, serving two National Party Prime Ministers and three Opposition Leaders.
5 comments:
Oldest one in the book: "Do as I say, not as I do."
Yes, they have and forever will be the do as we say not as we do type of folk.
The evidence before our eyes is not only just this instance.....
I would go further than saying they don't walk the talk or do as I say not as I do. They are just dishonest outright liars.
James was a well qualified liar but his claimed qualifications were a little exaggerated shall we say.
The foam of hypocrisy rises around the Left … as it ever did and ever shall.
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