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BusinessSeptember 16

Fears for emissions trading scheme

The controversial emissions trading scheme (ETS) is going pear-shaped, with carbon credits plunging from $20 per tonne of emissions to $4.20 per unit last week. Senior business reporter Simon Hartley talks to ETS supporters who are highlighting the emerging anomalies and are alarmed over the Government's proposed changes to the ETS legislation.
Fears for emissions trading scheme
Fears for emissions trading scheme
BusinessApril 12

Financial crisis may slow ETS

The Government appears ready to use the European credit crisis as a way out of expanding its obligations within the controversial emissions trading scheme (ETS).
Financial crisis may slow ETS
Financial crisis may slow ETS
DunedinJanuary 11

Work to minimise cost of ETS

Dunedin's work on waste diversion, and its project to use gas from its Green Island landfill to create electricity, should mean it pays a minimum amount under the Government's Emissions Trading Scheme (ETS).
BusinessOctober 23

Time is nearly upon older forests

The deadline is looming for owners of older pre-1990 forests, who have until November 30 to apply for compensation from the Government.
NewsAugust 21

Looking forward to emissions trading scheme debate

Greetings from a soggy Club Marama where indeed the snow was of limited consequence as mid winter is a great time for snow!
Central OtagoApril 29

Big bill for board if forest not replanted

The Maniototo Community Board could face a $373,160 emissions trading scheme (ETS) liability unless it replants its cleared Naseby forestry blocks before the end of next year.
NewsMarch 8

Down side to carbon credits, farmer warns

Auchterless could be carbon-neutral under the proposed emissions trading scheme (ETS), but station owner Alan Garden warns selling carbon credits from trees is not the financial windfall it seems at first.
Down side to carbon credits, farmer warns
Down side to carbon credits, farmer warns
NewsMarch 6

10 million NZ Units issued by Maf

Ten million New Zealand Units have been issued by the Ministry of Agriculture and Forestry under the emissions trading scheme (ETS) since the first returns were processed in early 2009.
NationalDecember 24

ETS needs teeth: Labour

The Emission Trading Scheme (ETS) needs to be given "a set of teeth" by the panel reviewing it, the Labour Party says.
NationalDecember 23

ETS review will check scheme's goals: minister

The Emissions Trading Scheme (ETS) is to be reviewed next year and Climate Change Minister Nick Smith says he wants to make sure it is achieving its goals of reducing emissions with the least possible cost to consumers and businesses.
NewsOctober 3

Emissions submissions call

Agricultural processors are being invited to make submissions on how they can reduce their greenhouse gas emissions or help suppliers reduce theirs.
North OtagoSeptember 26

Council hopes cloth-nappy subsidy scheme will cut landfill waste

Parents of babies living in the Waitaki district from next month can be more environmentally conscious under a new subsidy scheme for cloth nappies being launched by the Waitaki District Council.
NewsSeptember 26

Rule changes cut wilding tree onus

Last minute changes to deforestation rules under the emissions trading scheme have made wilding tree management possible, say Environment Southland.
DunedinSeptember 17

2000 in Dunedin quit Contact

Contact Energy lost more than 2000 Dunedin customers in the same quarter it controversially hiked prices by more than 9%, the latest Economic Development Ministry electricity price survey suggests.
BusinessAugust 17

ETS changes help owners of forests

The Government has changed the emissions trading scheme rules, which will benefit owners of 1.5 million ha of exotic forest planted before 1990 - the cut-off date at which the Kyoto Protocol acknowledges the carbon-absorbing role of trees.
NewsAugust 8

Unknowns unnerve

It is not just the number of zeroes in the figures that concern Lindsay and Margaret Dempster about the impending emissions trading scheme, rather it is the unknown.
DunedinJuly 26

Heated meeting on ETS

There was possibly enough heated discussion about the emissions trading scheme (ETS) in Mosgiel last night to have contributed to global climate change.
NewsJuly 18

First wave of ETS costs put at $65m a year

The first tranche of costs associated with the emissions trading scheme, which came into force this month, could cost the meat, wool and dairy processing sectors $65 million a year.
BusinessJuly 2

Concerns ETS a millstone for transport

There are still very real concerns that the emissions trading scheme will be a millstone around the neck of an already overburdened land transport industry, former Act New Zealand and Labour MP and new Land Transport Forum chief executive Ken Shirley said.
Concerns ETS a millstone for transport
Concerns ETS a millstone for transport
BusinessJuly 2

Minister gives assurance to farmers

Agriculture would not be included in the emissions trading scheme if New Zealand's competitors or trading partners did not address their agricultural emissions, farmers have been promised.
Minister gives assurance to farmers
Minister gives assurance to farmers
OpinionJuly 2

ETS: National knows overseas consumers the key

Feeling the financial pinch from the emissions trading scheme? Didn't think so.
BusinessJuly 1

Carbon credits sold to Europe

A Southland forestry company has secured its private investors a multimillion-dollar sale of carbon credits, after it recently closed a deal with an unspecified European government.
NationalJune 30

ETS: The numbers

Burning fossil fuels and clearing forests have lifted the carbon dioxide (CO2) levels in the atmosphere to 35% higher than before industrialisation, and other "greenhouse gases" such as methane and nitrous oxide from agriculture are also increasing.
DunedinJune 30

Freighting it to you will add up

Be ready to pay more for your bread, your milk, your vehicle - in fact, be prepared to pay more for just about everything that has been freighted to wherever you buy it.
South OtagoJune 30

Kai Point expects prices to escalate

Southerners will not know the true cost of the emissions trading scheme until at least this time next year, Kai Point Coal general manager Chris O'Leary says.
Kai Point expects prices to escalate
Kai Point expects prices to escalate