On Wed, 26 Sep 2007 11:59:14 +1200, you wrote: <snip> >where we then pay >the Chinese (and other countries producing these) more money as carbon >tax for them to produce even more greenhouse gas than we do. We also >sell some of them our coal that is supposedly too ungreen for us to use. > Agreed - but it didn't have to be this way. There were proposals to keep the carbon charges within the NZ economy and use the money for incentives for more efficient plant/equip etc.
Of course lobbying by large scale energy users (and farmers) forced the govt to back down. It's a missed opportunity that will bit us in the future. Cheers D _______________________________________________ NZ Borland Developers Group - Delphi mailing list Post: delphi@delphi.org.nz Admin: http://delphi.org.nz/mailman/listinfo/delphi Unsubscribe: send an email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with Subject: unsubscribe
