Attached is the Supplementary submission I will be making to the Finance
& Expendure Select Committee this afternoon, scheduled for 5.10 p.m.
Select Committee Room 3, in the Buildings, together with appendices to
the supp.
The call by the Australian Opposition for exclusion of agricultural
emissions, referred to in my supp puts the cat among the Kiwi pigeons!
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Finance & Expenditure Select Committee
Climate Change Response (Moderated Emissions Trading Scheme)
Amendment Bill
SUPPLEMENTARY SUBMISSION BY T. J. DUNLEAVY
Secretary, New Zealand Climate Science Coalition
(Due for presentation, Select Committee Room No 3, Tues, 20 October 2009 at 5.10 p.m.)
I suspect that some of you are asking yourselves, what’s this 80 year old former lobbyist for the wine industry doing
here speaking against emissions trading? Especially when he is opposing a measure sponsored by the National Party which
he has supported all his life, and for whom he stood as a candidate in Napier in 1969? In fact, wasn’t he once national
convenor of Bluegreens, working with Nick Smith? Well, yes actually, I was with Bluegreens until about 2004 when I began
to realise that while the Bluegreens claimed to embrace as one of its five principles:
* Good science is essential to quality environmental decision making
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Full submission: