David Farrar: Say no to taxpayer funded lobbying

Newsroom reports:

Environmental groups have seen increased support since the 2023 election, though this hasn’t always translated into more donations.

As part of what their leaders have called a “war on nature”, the coalition Government has cut off Crown funding to the big four environmental Non-Government Organisations (NGOs) with varying consequences. …

Ele Ludemann: Red & political

Federated Farmers is calling for GreenRedpeace to lose its charitable status:

. . . “Greenpeace need to be held accountable for their repeated illegal activity and the spread of harmful misinformation,” Southland Federated Farmers president Jason Herrick says.

Suze: This Shows Some Disturbing Ignorance

Like oil and water, religion and politics do not coalesce nicely

It used to be a prerequisite of good behaviour not to discuss religion and politics in polite company, certainly not in the same sentence, so imagine my surprise when I received an email from a church leader titled “March and Protest”.

Professing to join 40,000 other like-minded nature lovers marching down Queen Street, this man of the cloth spoke about the high value of our conservation estate and our access to the great outdoors, naturally the work of the Creator.

Point of Order: NZ’s big dairy company reports a massive profit jump....

.....but the lobby group Greenpeace doesn’t like it

Dairy farmers, or at least those who are also shareholders in the Fonterra dairy co-operative would have received a second dose of good news this week, when the dairy giant reported a massive profit jump.

Point of Order: Climate change activists worry about “cow in the room”

But doesn’t NZ need a different answer to the problem?

What they call “the cow in the room” is the focus of climate change activists. They are attacking both National and Labour for what they see as the failure to have a credible plan to cut climate pollution from Big Dairy. They are calling on all political parties to step up and commit to bold and urgent climate action.

Greenpeace spokesperson Christine Rose says as we get closer to the 2023 election, people are calling for strong leadership on climate action.

Point of Order: Greenpeace attacks government on tardiness to cut farm emissions.......

.......but doesn’t NZ need all the income it can get?

At a time when the nation is reeling from the impact of Cyclone Gabrielle, climate change campaigner Greenpeace is demanding answers on why the government has yet to come up with an effective plan to cut emissions from the country’s biggest polluter.

Where’s the long-awaited plan to cut agricultural emissions? Greenpeace climate campaigner Christine Rose demands.

Point of Order: Greenpeace gripes at govt’s greenhouse gas agenda but agriculture leaders welcome it (and push genetic technologies)

Despite pouring $2.9 billion of taxpayer funds into the battle against climate change, the Ardern government won few plaudits from climate change lobbies – and copped a severe caning from Greenpeace for refusing to cut dairy herds.

As Radio NZ reported,

“Climate activists say the government’s landmark plan to curb emissions is light on detail, full of fluff, and lets the worst polluters off the hook”.

Government ministers were nevertheless ebullient about their package, believing they had delivered a master stroke in earmarking $569 million to help low-income families get cleaner cars while winning over farmers with a new agricultural emissions centre.

Mike Huckabee: Interview with Greenpeace Dropout Dr Patrick Moore

Mike Huckabee interviews Dr. Patrick Moore one of the original Greenpeace founders, who left once the organisation became radicalised.

Ron Smith: Oil and Greenpeace - the 'hooligans' are at it again!

There is a lot to debate in regard to oil exploration around New Zealand, both on land and in the adjoining seas.  Oil already makes a substantial contribution to our economy and provides well-paid employment.  It has the potential to do a great deal more.  Of course there are dangers.  Accidents can cause loss of life and environmental damage.  Manifestly, this is not peculiar to oil.  As we know too well, people can die in coal-mining, or in off shore fishing, and there are potential environmental consequences from farming, especially intensive dairy farming, which is at the heart of our present relative economic security.  For some there is also the matter of anthropogenic global warming, which condemns oil exploitation and coal mining, however safely conducted.

We need to reconcile these things.  We need to apply serious cost/benefit analysis.  How much value do we put on the potential revenues and employment possibilities that might come from exploitation of our untouched oil assets?

Ron Smith: Greenpeace and the Temptations of Utopianism

The Greenpeace response to the actions of the Russian authorities, following the invasion of their oil-drilling platform by Greenpeace activists, has been revealing and deeply ironic.  The Russian actions, they said, were an ‘assault on the very principle of peaceful protest.  Most pointedly, Greenpeace also said of the Russian tactics, that they were, ‘intimidatory’.

Of course, they were right in this latter comment.  What the Russians did (and are continuing to do) is indeed, intimidatory.  They are intent on putting up the price of the kind of ‘protest’ that is Greenpeace’s stock-in-trade.  And this is where the irony comes in.