New Zealanders are now confronting the most serious energy and fuel pressures in a generation. Diesel prices have surged to record levels, truck stops in several regions have already run dry, and questions are increasingly being raised about whether national fuel supplies will hold. Fertiliser importers are warning of tightening global markets, supply chains are under strain, and the latest price spikes are already feeding directly into the cost of living and inflation.
The Middle East crisis has not only disrupted global shipping routes and fuel flows; it has revealed just how dangerously exposed New Zealand has become. Unlike many countries, we entered this crisis having deliberately dismantled our refining capacity, constrained our gas supply, and imposed ideologically driven climate policies that deliberately increased energy costs throughout the economy. The end result is a country acutely vulnerable to global shocks.
With the consequences of governments prioritising climate activism over energy security now clear, the question that needs to be asked is whether New Zealand would be more resilient if we had not committed to the United Nations Paris Agreement.
The evidence strongly suggests we would.
To recap: the Paris Agreement sets New Zealand’s international climate commitments; the Zero Carbon Act converts them into domestic targets through five-year emissions budgets aimed at achieving net zero by 2050; and the Emissions Trading Scheme (ETS) puts a price on emissions of carbon dioxide (CO₂) in order to force the de-carbonisation of the energy sector through the phase out of fossil-fuelled thermal generation and the electrifying of transport and industrial heat.
New Zealand’s ETS is unusually broad based. While most countries only apply carbon pricing to large industrial emitters, our scheme was designed to cover the entire economy – driving up electricity prices, fuel prices, freight, food, manufacturing costs, and ultimately, household budgets.
By pricing CO₂ emissions from the gas and coal‑fired power stations needed to keep New Zealand’s lights on during dry years and periods with little sun or wind, the ETS guarantees that wholesale electricity prices will continue to rise – pushing up costs for households and businesses. And as more capital‑intensive wind and solar are added, the need for backup generation increases, driving electricity prices even higher.
With the Zero Carbon Act imposing legally binding emissions budgets that restrict economic activity regardless of market conditions or technological readiness, these two policies have created a cost structure that amplifies global shocks rather than cushioning them. Together they have driven the “deindustrialisation” of New Zealand – as energy‑intensive industries relocate offshore, pulp and paper mills close, and food processors scale back.
For exporters, the challenges are especially severe as they compete against producers in countries where carbon prices are lower, or non-existent, eroding competitiveness and squeezing margins.
The closure of the Marsden Point oil refinery in 2022 was the most consequential loss of all, leaving New Zealand totally dependent on imported refined fuels.
Marsden Point illustrates how the Ardern Government prioritised climate ideology and UN directives over energy security and the national interest.
Originally opened in 1962, the site near Whangarei was chosen for its deep‑water port, proximity to major North Island markets, and low earthquake risk. The “Think Big” expansion, completed in 1986, enabled the refinery to produce around 70 percent of New Zealand’s refined fuel needs from domestic and imported crude – including petrol, diesel, aviation fuel, kerosene, fuel oils, and bitumen.
When the Clark Labour Government ratified the UN’s Kyoto Protocol in 2003 and committed to reducing greenhouses gases, it entered into a 20-year Negotiated Greenhouse Agreement with the refinery. In exchange for an exemption from carbon charges, the refinery committed to an emissions-reduction pathway that included removing lead from petrol, supplying lower sulphur diesel, and reducing benzene in petrol.
As the Agreement’s expiry date approached and the refinery began negotiating its transition into the ETS, it became clear that significant carbon costs would be imposed.
With the Green Party Climate Minister James Shaw pushing to tighten industrial allocation rules, the Refining NZ Board warned that rising carbon charges would increase operating costs and threaten the refinery’s viability.
By 2020, the refinery was already under intense financial strain from collapsing global refining margins and rising domestic energy costs. Confidence in New Zealand’s long‑term energy security had been eroded by Jacinda Ardern’s “Captain’s Call” ban on offshore oil and gas exploration, and with the Zero Carbon Act signalling the wind‑down of fossil‑fuel infrastructure, Refining NZ advised the government that its climate policy settings had made ongoing refinery operations unsustainable.
When Cabinet rejected intervention on fuel‑security grounds, the refinery ceased operation, and in April 2022 converted into an import‑only terminal.
While the closure was described as a commercial decision, the destructive impact of the UN’s climate agenda is unmistakable: by facing rising carbon costs, tightening ETS settings, declining gas supply, and a decarbonisation pathway that offered fossil‑fuel infrastructure no future, the policy environment made long‑term refining untenable.
The economic fallout from this radical climate ideology was not confined to Marsden Point.
With the Zero Carbon Act’s binding emissions budgets constraining investment and increasing compliance costs – and the ETS raising the price of fuel, freight, and production across the entire economy – the cumulative effect has undermined energy security in New Zealand and driven de‑industrialisation as energy‑intensive industries close or relocate offshore.
What’s even worse is that the architecture that underpins this destructive climate ideology, is fundamentally flawed.
Let me explain.
New research shows that plant absorption of CO₂ from the atmosphere has been significantly underestimated in the climate models that underpin international policy.
A 2024 study by Cornell University and Oak Ridge National Laboratory published in Nature, found that plants absorb 31 percent more CO₂ through photosynthesis than previously estimated – as this week’s NZCPR Guest Commentator, long time New Zealand Climate Researcher Dr Richard Reaney, explains:
“Every so often, science gets a reminder that the natural world doesn’t bend to our models. The recent findings from Oak Ridge National Laboratory are one of those reminders. For years, we were told that plants absorb a certain, tidy amount of CO₂. Now we learn that figure was off by a wide margin – about 30%. That’s not a rounding error. That’s a sign we’ve been working with an incomplete picture.
“For decades, global CO₂ absorption was estimated using indirect signals: satellite greenness, atmospheric readings, and scattered ground measurements. Useful tools, but hardly precise. The new research used carbonyl sulphide – a gas plants absorb during photosynthesis and never release. It’s a cleaner, more honest indicator of what’s actually happening. And once scientists measured it properly, the truth was obvious: Earth’s vegetation is pulling far more CO₂ out of the air than we gave it credit for.”
Dr Reaney describes his recent research trip into the heart of the Borneo rainforest to measure CO₂ levels throughout the day: “The rainforest was literally ‘hovering’ CO₂ out of the atmosphere at an increased photosynthetic rate… A stronger natural carbon sink means the planet is more resilient than we thought. But it also means our climate models – the ones used to guide policy, investment, and public messaging – were built on shaky foundations.”
And that’s the point: the climate policies embedded in our legislative and regulatory framework – that are causing untold damage to our economy and way of life – are based on inaccurate assumptions. There’s no other conclusion that can be reached.
But it gets worse. Not only are CO₂ emissions overstated, so too are agricultural emissions.
New Zealand’s latest Greenhouse Gas Inventory reports gross national emissions of 76.4 million tonnes of CO₂-equivalent, with agriculture accounting for 53 percent. Under the standard GWP100 metric used in Paris Agreement accounting – which measures how much heat a greenhouse gas traps over 100 years compared with CO₂ – methane produced by livestock digestion is treated as trapping 27 to 30 times more heat.
However, because biogenic methane is short-lived, only remaining in the atmosphere for around 12 years, GWP100 significantly overstates its long-term warming impact. A more accurate metric GWP* has therefore been developed, which reduces the warming impact of stable livestock methane by roughly 75 percent – equivalent to a multiplier of four.
Applying both corrections – a 31 percent reduction in reported CO₂ and a 75 percent reduction in biogenic methane – New Zealand’s gross emissions would fall to around 40 million tonnes, and the need to de-industrialise our economy would evaporate.
Instead of accounting for a miniscule 0.15 percent of global greenhouse gas emissions, New Zealand’s share would fall to an infinitesimal 0.07 percent.
On a per capita basis, New Zealand would shift from appearing to be a relatively high emitter of greenhouse gases to one of the cleanest and greenest developed nations in the world. This corrected view would properly recognise our highly efficient pastoral farmers, who produce some of the lowest emissions per kilogram of milk and meat anywhere on the planet. It would highlight agriculture as a genuine national strength – demonstrating that we feed the world with unmatched efficiency, while maintaining one of the cleanest electricity systems amongst developed nations.
But here’s the catch. While New Zealand and others might lobby the UN to update Paris Agreement metrics and correct the data, there’s no guarantee they’ll agree. That means inflated targets will continue to dominate climate policy – undermining energy security and driving up costs across the economy – unless the Coalition acts decisively in the national interest.
To their credit, they’ve already been moving in this direction: In 2024, they reversed Labour’s plan to bring agriculture into the ETS, and in 2025, they took on-farm emissions pricing “off the table”, in recognition that future reductions will come from technology and productivity gains.
However, the on-going pressure on our economy from the ETS remains. By driving up wholesale power prices, increasing fuel and fertiliser costs, and contributing to the closure of energy-intensive industries – including Marsden Point – the ETS is undermining energy security at a time when we most need affordable, reliable energy to support industry and households. That’s why it must go.
China offers a practical model for how a major Paris Agreement party can pursue its national interests while remaining fully signed up. Beijing continues to build large-scale coal-fired power stations on the explicit grounds of energy security, grid stability to support intermittent renewables, and the need to sustain rapid economic and industrial growth. Its Nationally Determined Contributions (NDC) focus on carbon intensity and technology-led progress rather than absolute emission volumes.
If concerns that New Zealand exiting the Paris Agreement would compromise trade are genuine, we could follow China’s pragmatic path: remain a party to the Agreement, state our corrected figures, scrap the ETS, and submit a revised NDC that prioritises energy security, food security, and economic growth while pursuing lower emissions through technology and efficiency.
Such a move would demonstrate the Coalition is prioritising the national interest – just as our largest trading partner already does.
Finally, if Jacinda Ardern had put the national interest ahead of climate ideology and allowed the refinery’s exemption from carbon charges to continue, it’s possible it would still be operating today. If that were the case, New Zealand would have the added security of at least 350 million litres of stable crude oil stored in the tanks that are sitting empty – on top of the current holding of 300 million litres of refined fuel, with its relatively short shelf life of 6 months for petrol, 6 to 12 months for diesel, and 12 to 24 months for jet fuel.
The current global fuel crisis should be a wake‑up call. New Zealand cannot afford to repeat the mistakes that have left us exposed: dismantling critical infrastructure, constraining domestic energy supply, and subordinating national security to international climate orthodoxy. Energy security is not optional. It’s the foundation of economic strength, social stability, and national resilience. If we are to protect our industries, our households, and our sovereignty, future governments must put fuel and energy security first — unequivocally and unapologetically — in the national interest.
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THIS WEEK’S POLL ASKS:
*Should the ETS be scrapped?
*Poll comments are posted below.
*All NZCPR poll results can be seen in the Archive.
THIS WEEK’S POLL COMMENTS
| It was a stupid idea to begin with | Anthony |
| ABSOLUTELY | Richard |
| Carbon xero is absolute nonsense | Michael |
| nature will do what nature does | Nev |
| Of course it should be scrapped along with most, if not all, extreme climate change ideological dictates based on false assumptions and at the expense of our economy and energy security. It makes me sick to think what our socialist governments and the equally far-left UN has done to New Zealand. We need to standup to this madness, if not for us, for the sake of those younger Kiwis who will inherit the mess we are leaving them. Time to wake-up and get real. | Kevin |
| NZ is now experiencing one economic shock after another. Most have been man made. The country is locked into continuing descent into a state of economic collapse from the state of stagnation at this time. In the Wellington Region this government has watched over 1,500 businesses fail and this is an indicator of the path the country is on. Operating costs are killing the private sector and it is unable to produce enough revenue / taxes to enable the government to keep up its borrowing. It has under 5 years to fix it. The incoming new government must cancel the Paris Agreement, cancel the ETS and any association with global policy pursuits that revolve around the atmosphere and immediately move to a path of self reliance. This means returning to self reliant levels of crude oil, fuel and gas production. Immediate bans must be placed on the merging of fertiliser or any other companies with global corporations. These corporation have leached the economy dry allowing greed to prosper over jobs. Economic growth comes from national company development – not company destruction. The statistics of unemployment are not factual because of the migration of the jobless overseas. The stable stats for a depression are around 10 – 12%. How close would we be to that level if there was no outbound migration of the jobless? NZ is at five minutes to midnight and the political system is still not listening! | Frederick |
| At once. | mary |
| There is no climate emergency, as Dr Will Happer has stated. | Chuck |
| An utter travesty for the country and for future generations. | Gill |
| Socialist delusions. Withdraw from the UN, like the USA, not only the Paris Agreement, repeal the Zero Carbon Act, scrap the ETS. | Monica |
| I have followed the whole so called Climate Emergency debacle for many years & I can’t help agree that this ETS scheme needs to be scrapped, along with NZ withdrawing immediately from the “Paris Accord” as the whole thing is pure nonsense…! | Bruza |
| The sooner this BS scheme is scrapped the better | Laurie |
| It is not effective, creates distortions. Has resulted in a lot of good farm last taken out of production, reducing sigificantly a main source of NZ income | Garth |
| Absolutely. It is draining the New Zealand economy for no return. | Gavin |
| The ETS needs to be worked on or eliminated if it is indeed correct that the our green flora are a lot more effective in dealing to the nation’s carbon problem than what is supposed to be the current norm. New Zealand needs to learn to balance its contentious issues in favour of a normal workability climate and to further enhance our citizens collective physical and financial security. As pointed out by Muriel, if we cannot generate competitively costed energy then our exports may be priced out of the global markets, let alone, out of our own supermarket trollies. We could lose our comfortable standard of living with even more of our best and brightest choosing to emigrate. It’s unfortunate that our past and present Government Politians have been pounded into submission on many contentious issues that they are simply too scared to apply full commonsense and pragmatic procedures for much better outcomes. It looks as though the forthcoming election is not going to improve our dear country’s dire situation one bit and we will be lucky to hold on to what we have. A weak ruling class just means higher costs will be forever the norm. It’s the easy way out for them. | garry |
| 2050 is a croc and who has our $ – lets have our money back and scrap the nonsense | tony |
| Absolutely! The climate change agenda is destroying our farming and industries- all very deliberately. A Marxist ideology which, if not turned around, will cripple our once thriving country. | Desna |
| The ETS should definitely be scrapped. It should never have been implemented in the first place – just a scam. | Gifford |
| We are too idealistic | Julius |
| Yes | Roger |
| It is too broad based and has resulted in the loss of significant loss of energy sustainability. So no thanks to Jacinda and her self serving virtue signalling. | David |
| Absolutely | Ihaia |
| Ardern should be boiled in that oil | Rob |
| YES, shut it down, get out, it’s nothing but the biggest scam this world has ever seen, millions of dollars being put into this from all around the world and it doesn’t matter what the world dose and how much many goes into this it will NOT change anything to do with the weather or climate around the world because it’s called evolution and that’s something that happens every 30 million years or so. It could be about another million or 10 million years before it happens again but it will happen and no one can stop it ‘simply called EVOLUTION. So all this talk about climate change or global warning or what ever you want to call it. it’s is a complete load of S**T, a SCAM, started by a bunch of clowns to scam money and picked up by the greens and the tree huggers and it’s just got way out of hand. What i would like to know is -WHERE IS ALL THE MONEY GOING AND WHO IS GOING TO GET IT ALL???? I think the people of the world should be more worried about what’s happing over seas in the middle east at the moment. and Russia etc because that could finish the world as we know it today long before any climate problems. Don’t believe me ,all up the science facts on the net . THAT’S NOT BULLS**T. | COLIN |
| Definitely | carolyn |
| PLUS the Zero Carbon Act. PLUS NZ must withdraw from the Paris Accord and stop wasting tax Payers money | RICHard |
| Get rid of the Emissions Trading Scheme and the previous Labour Government should have purchased the refinery instead of Kiwi bank at a cost of 2.1 billion Dollars and we would have a backup source and Ardern to cancel fossil fuel exploration was a grave mistake No wonder Ardern is not welcome back here i New Zealand and i would be more than happy to see that pellock Grant Robertson join Her . | Ken |
| Climate change hysteria is a scam | Richard |
| and soon | Pam |
| Don’t just accept ideology and questionable statistics over creating a more practical and achievable solution to climatic effects on the World. New Zealand is not using common sense on what it is trying to achieve. | Martin |
| Of course it should be scrapped…….making huge profits from poisoning everything as well as their WAR ON NATURE AND GOD!! | David |
| The ETS is just money grab by the Government making NZers poorer. It is also removing industry meaning less jobs for all, making us poorer again | Mark |
| Can the likes of a Marsden Point oil refinery be re-established.NZ needs to be as independent as possible as future world politics looks increasingly bleak. | Anne |
| Absolutely. The “climate crisis” is a scam. | Trevor |
| TODAY! | David |
| Today if possible | Sylvia |
| I asked for this to be scrapped many years ago. Don Brash (of all people) advised against it for reasons of trade. Your comments on this show the way to do it! Bravo | Peter |
| Rediculist,consraining everything. | Ann |
| IMMEDIATELY, IT IS A LIE, IT IS A CON. LABOUR PARTY SHOULD BE HELD RESPONSIBILE FOR THEIR LIES. Bring them before a special court in New Zealand. | George M.J. |
| The unfalsifiable ideological basis of UNEP dogma enshrined in the absurd definition of climate change%u2122%uFE0F ‘direct and indirect anthropogenic influence on atmospheric composition and land usage’ requiring the expunging of humanity from the face of Gaia, illustrated by the ridiculous reductio ad absurdum of GCMs, the fact that %u0394T precedes pCO2, that ice core samples demonstrate a SD of centennial variation 0.93C /-0.27C through the Holocene, that 50% of the Holocene has been warmer that today, relying as it does on depopulation, deindustrialisation and delegitimisation., and the end result of destitution. | Latus |
| For the better of everyone in country | Martin |
| Better late than never. | Bruce |
| CO2 is the molecule of life. Those that hate CO2, hate life. | Robert |
| Definstely | Ruth |
| Absolutely. The science for climate change is sooo corrupted! Thank you Muriel spot on article. | Dianne |
| About time | Sheryl |
| stupid signing up for it in the first place, the numbers were wrong. | Chris |
| and charge adern and her followers plus all of the greens with treason, then pull out of some if not all un crap,use NEW ZEALAND coal instead of importing sulphur loaded coal from Indonesia, and get those tanks and plant working at marsden point ASAP so that exploration can start up again in this country otherwise we may as well turn off the lights now and put on life jackets, no use going to australia as they are up shit creek nearly worse than we are. | Richard |
| Bring it on | Ken |
| Immediately | Mark |
| It’s based on bad research no doubt politically motivated!! | Alan |
| The governments elected to govern this country have proved to be Globalist puppets regardless of the labels they carry, or the promises that they make. Worst offenders are hard to identify, but the Key & then Ardern led governments must be close to achieving top spot. Still the voting public stupidly cling to the ‘dream’ that voting National or Labour will make a difference. We are, or should be aware of the disaster that the previous Labour led government was, but what has changed under the current National dominated government? NOTHING. Maorification continues to threaten democracy, we include THE PARIS CLIMATE ACORD in our Trade Deals, and national debt continues to spiral out of control, which will eventually lead to the collapse of our sovereignty which will be replaced by a new Global monetary system. | A.G.R. |
| Live in the real world | Anthony |
| A waste of time and killing the country | Andrew |
| Hind sight is a wonderful thing. Yes new evidence provides ammunition to potentially reopen Marsden Point | Paul |
| And dig and drill baby, dig and drill, using greenies as backfill for the digging. | Terry M |
| NZ (politicians) need to think for themselves. Clark and Ardern were controlled by tree hugging UN ‘specialists’. Now the Orange Monster has become the ferret in our rabbit hole. Thanks for nothing ladies!!! | Peter K |
| Why is Cindy not held to account for much of the trouble we are in now? | Chris |
| Absolutely!!! | rayner |
| Should have been done years ago. There is NO climate change. NZ HAS to quit the Paris Accoard, because the climate can NOT be changed with money. On top of that. 95% of CO2 is produced through volcanic activity. | Peter |
| Trading away “responsibilities” is illogical. Even sillier when the responsibilities are imaginary | Wendy |
| Should never have had one in the first place. | Ross |
| Along with a few bone-headed politicians! | Helen |
| Yes, without question NZ would be far better off and this is supported by the FACTS and science. | Ronald |
| Carbon Zero is absolute nonsense | Michsel |
| Bogus rubbish. | Trevor |
| Absolutely no its or buts! | John |
| A very reasoned approach to issues. What can we all do to educate the public and the politicians?? | Neville |
| Should have been scrapped a long time ago !! It is a UN SCAM !!! | Pierre |
| If China can have an acceptable position, why not New Zealand.? | Peter |
| Get up to date with the data NZ | Andrew |
| The ETS must be scrapped. This useless national party is doing nothing. You have the correct information for goodness sake act on it. Only NZ 1st and Act put our people and country first. Voting for any other parties will only continue our destruction. Co governance is still happening behind our backs especially control of our water through our local councils. $2,400 per year just the start for Wellington region. Mine $701 per year at present time. 343% increase. Outragious. | Kevan |
| Man made climate change is the biggest scam in world history | James |
| get rid of it | Noel |
| All of the greening thinking is destroying our nation. Are we doomed by the slow. slow move towards clear common sense? | Robin |
| Obviously incorrect in the assumptions and modelling. Follow China’s example of energy security and the new EU directions on restarting nuclear. | Henry |
| Yes – along with the useless, inept United Nothings! | Scott |
| This is an obvious! | Michael |
| It is depressing, New Zealanders believe humans can control climate and frightening, so called, educated politicians would rather destroy our economy than remove us from the corrupt ETS and remove carbon taxes. Group think syndrome and lack of common sense. NZ is not hurting enough for real change to occur unless the people themselves force the change. both Labour and National are one in the same. | Sam |
| Most definitely. | Mike |
| ETS imposes destructive economic and energy securityoutcomes for NZ and should be abolished. Paris Agreement continuity for NZ is viable with sensible conditions. | Stan |
| I feel annoyed about Marsden points helped build it and realize what a mistake it closure would be | Andy |
| Dr Newman’s factual analysis is compelling. | Tony |
| Should never have entered the scheme in the first place | Brian |
| It drives wrong decision-making and is not fit for purpose. | Tony |
| This carbon dioxide nonsense needs to stop. The science does not support man made global warming. | Judith |
| Simple answer is YES, scrap ETS and Near-Zero as well as all the rest of the ridiculously flawed C’C b’s and get the hell outta the Marxist UN and WHO. Drill baby drill, Mine baby mine and Farm,farm,farm. That’s it. | Flip |
| Extra CO2 in the atmosphere is a blessing, making the whole world greener and lifting plant growth by 30%. The warming measured is caused by the activity of the sun, which will soon flip to a cooling trend due to sun spot cycles, | Ross |
| That anthropological derived CO2 is a threat though causing damaging atmospheric temperature increase is an ideologically driven fraud which can be easily rebutted scientifically. | Stephen |
| As soon a possible. A number of years in the early 1980 s there was a plan to run a pipeline from if I recall (OAONUI) across COOK STRAIT, down through the MOLESWORTH down to the South Basin where there is a huge gas /oil field. I flew those oil/gas people down that route from OMAKA aerodrome down past KAIKOURA. I learnt later the whole concept was scrapped. The pipelines were ready to be laid and the pipe laying vessel was ready.. This interested me as I was also had been involved in the gas industry. The late Norm Kirk wanted New Zealand to utilize our own resources. The Seven Sisters ( OIL COMPANIES) did not want this to happen Refer The OPAL FILES | Rob |
| A complete waste of money from the very start. | Chris |
| All the western governments have been scammed by the biggest fraud ever carried out. The problem is everyone is so brainwashed, the fraud will carry on. We need a total reset, but not the WHO kind. It starts with individual sovereignty. | Alan |
| Unquestionably so. principally due to the low emissions produced by New Zealand and the fiscal burden on our own economy. Developing countries receiving support include counties with sizable economies who, speaking frankly, are not pulling their wait. Let’s keep the money at home and improve our own position. | Chris |
| Sooner the better | Bruce |
| Why the hell was it started in the first instance. The looney greenies and stupid lefties have a lot to answer for,and our poli for for letting this go ahead. Just scrap it asap. | Peter |
| As a nation of 5 million people, we contribute almost nothing to the global emissions of so-called dangerous greenhouse gases, yet we have allowed ouselves to be constrained by the actions of a few righteous individuals. Scrap the emmissions trading scheme and lets get back to basic common sense on these matters, not listen to the rantings of a vew deluded climate change activists | Trevor |
| No brainer | Martin |
| Yes absolutely. Excellent article! | Jock |
| iT WAS A VERY STUPID IDEA IN THE FIRST PLACE | BRUCE |
| The science has been there for decades, Anther factor on Methane and animals that I heard recently was that the computer models we have been told to follow do not represent NZ but were based on European housed animals, not the pasture grazing systems we follow. That evidence has been false so far as NZ farming practices are concerned. That info would not have suited James Shaw’s ideology so he would not have shared it even if he knew. | Maurice |
| It is crippling NZ in too many ways – arderns legacy needs to go. | Sharon |
| It’s just a woke idea that would never work. | Clive |
| The ETS can be used to show woke Governments that WE ARE DOING OUR BIT. But it needs to be altered as should all targets to reflect more closely the truth | Cookie |
| Yes Yes Yes.It should never have been started in the first place. The trouble is those who were responsible for making those vital decisions were not earth scientists.they were any thing but,need i say more. | galem |
| We can’t function without petrol and diesel fuels. Battery power brings with it a whole new set of problems and pollution. | Mary |
| Of course ! | Terry |
| This was a have for a start and any govt member believing this needs sacking | Colin |
| Additionally our military should be much more strongly funded and greater support shown to our most critical ally the United States. | Kevin |
| NA contribution to the global picture is so low that if we had absolutely no carbon production at all, we would have absolutely no effect on the global warming!!!!! | ARTHUR |
| Whatever way you look at it the ETS is a self-inflicted garrotte on our economy. Can anyone justify this given the non-existing impact on CO2 levels and the fact that CO2 levels have not been proven to be the critical factor in global temperatures? | Ken |
| sooner than later | Allan |
| The sooner the better | leo |
| OVERDUE | Maxwell |
| Not to scrap it amounts to wilful economic sabotage. | Allan |
| ETS is a con. Honest people know it will not change the climate and is costing govt taxes paid. Get rid of it now. | Dave |
| This should have been done two years ago. the Iran situation now makes it immediate., if for no other reason, but to stabilise the economy. | Tony |
| Built on Lies | Clair |
| yes, yes, yes | |
| Nothing but a red herring! | Hugh |
| ABSOLUTELY!!! Ardern should NEVER be allowed in this country ever again!!! HELEN CLARKE also a party to wrecking this country now followed by that weak piece of S..T HIPKINS,!! ALL BASED ON CLIMATE CHANGE BULL..T,!!! They should all be charged with treason!! | Ron |
| Yes, it is time. | Murray |
| It is so far from the truth that only fools accept it. | Denis |
| Yeah but the science is settled. this has to be wrong. NZF is our only hope otherwise we are doomed – I was so positive after the last election. | Steve |
| The Government needs to take action. That is why we voted for them. | Heather |
| Can Common Sense at last be vindicated and NZ exit as soon as now!! | Karen |
| Of course it should. Carbon trading is nothing but a scam but unfortunately we don’t have politicians that are intelligent enough to realise it!! | Peter |
| I wanted to scrap it when it was first introduced!!!!!!! | Brian |
| Most certainly. | Daphne |
| Not before time. But has the Govt the guts to do so? | John |
| WE are minuscule in the emissions we produce taking all dairy transport etc. Yet we have other CO2 emitting countries with huge numbers that pay nothing or have NOT joined the scheme. I say we pull out and put the money back in back into getting our own fuel companies back in a better place to reduce our payments for Fuel and Oil. Maybe even putting Marsden Point back online, and start drilling and producing out own Fuel etc…. | Carl |
| It has been a lie, based on BS modelling from day 1 – rubbish in rubbish out! | Rob |
| It’s a no brainer argument that the emissions trading scheme should be scrapped. | Noel |
| most definitely | Alistair |
| yesterday | Thomas |
| a treasonous , deliberate act by ardern done to derail the country | greg |
| Cancel the Paris agreement and reopen the Marsden Point Refinery.We could also return to finding our own oil in NZ or offshore as we have done before. | Steve |
| Was never in favour of it from day one. A ponzi scheme that achieved nothing. | Steve |
| ETS equals death by a thousand virtuous cuts | George |
| The ETS (and Paris agreement) are both responsible for the economic mess we’re in. Neither should have been implemented. | Dave |
| I have several books by eminently qualified scientists who show beyond any shadow of a doubt that the woke universities, politicians, and most media are unwilling to allow any genuine debate when the facts are very clear – the issues are not settled! | Duncan |
| Should have been scrapped many years ago, however with the likes of the Greens and Labour there is fat chance of that. I doubt even the coalition would make that call. | Lawrie |
| Most definitely. | Fred |
| It can’t be scrapped quickly enough!!! | Marianne |
| Absolutely, most definitely. Scrapping it would give our economy a huge boost. | John |
| It should have been scrapped years ago. We are still paying for Jaconda’s lust for fame. Climate Change is mostly a sort. I wish they would get their facts right! | Sheila |
| A no-brainer to scrap emission trading and the fake Net Zero which chucks away Billions of Kiwi $$$ offshore to the corrupt UN. | Coral |
| Yes | Pamela |
| It’s destroying our econmy. | James |
| We over estimate our importance on the world stage. We are too small to even be noticed. | Steph |
| It has always been inappropriate…. | Murray |
| Late but not too late | Max |
| The refinery cannot be economically rebuilt. There probably isn’t any more significant gas. We should return to gasification of NZ coal for gas supply, and supplying NZ coal to Huntly for emergency and dry year needs. Develop all economically viable geothermal, then prepare for SMR nuclear. | Anthony |
| The ETS scheme is a waste of time & effort and has not reduced carbon emmissions what so ever.. The last few years all NZ Govt bi-annual carbon auctions have been a total failure and a cost one at that. | Greg |
| Flawed. | DEARWYN |
| The Government must scrap the ETS in the national interestsw of it’s people. | DAVE |
| Lets stop the nonsence that the Greens and the left would have us believe. And lets get on with life. | Robert |
| Needs to go. | Hilda |
| The net zero myopia is shown to be overstated and needs to be scrapped along with the payments to the UN. | john |
| Our climate effect is minimal | Terry |
| It is economically inappropriate for us because of our geographical isolation and failure to use our alternative national resources. | Alastair |
| Absolutely. In the time we have been in this scheme nothing has changed. It has just cost heaps with no results. Be nice to know where all the money has gone. | Bev |
| Asap | Graham |
| Absolutely and NOW. This Climate Corruption has been another Globalist World SCAM. You CAN NOT change the Climate by Paying someone….Hello !! Change the Environment YES. New Zealandi if properly Managed, is actually SELF SUFFICIENT. But the main ‘Blocking Problem is, we have a Globalist Led Government that’s sold it’s Soul for a delusional Globalistic Ideal. | Geoff |
| Another WEF/UN/NWO SCAM/STUNT, designed to keep taxpayer ,money, rolling in for the CORRUPT ELITES, paid for by the deluded GULLIBLE SHEEPLE! | David |
| It should never have been adopted | Lindsay |
| Absolutely it should be scrapped, along with a whole lot of the illogical, ideological rubbish that Adhern, Hipkins, Robertson etc dumped on New Zealand. They never matured from being High School Politicians! | Terry |
| its a no-brainer | Colin |
| YES, it should be scrapped, and in hindsight should NEVER have existed in the first place, the whole scheme, along with Climate Change has been a Fabian Society SCAM since Day One and John Kerry’s initial, deliberate and planned international dramas about it. It’s a huge relief to see the sheep awakening from their comatose slumber… Again; about time too! | Graham |
| Yes, the Emissions Trading Scheme should be scrapped with so much in today’s massively changing society, and with every living creature actually “emitting” this scheme seemed to me to be nothing more than another unequal government promoted taxable structure!! | Stuart |
| It should never have even been contemplated to begin with. | Alan |
| The ETS should definitely be scrapped. It is costing this country and its people hugely. Climate change and anything to do with it, is a scam. It is just a money making scam for a few. At the expense of others. It is time it was dumped. | Heather |
| Paris has got the figures wrong. Time to be realistic and remove the carbon burden and costs from NZ | Chris |
| It should have been scrapped 2 and a half years ago. In fact, New Zealand should only mimic the chinese approach for export reasons. We are a tiny country pretending to be something we are not and should dim our waffle overseas and get on with working towards self reliance quietly, stay out of the limelight. Curtail immigration to only people we practically need and who will assimilate. But we have politicians and bureaucrats who are stupid and dangerous and untrustworthy. | Leonard |
| YEs it Must Be Scrapped BAD IDEA New Zealand JUST CAN’T AFFORD THIS !!! | William |
| With haste! | Jan |
| YOU CANNOT CHANGE NATURE!! Our plants need CO2 to survive and we need the Oxogen the plants produce to survive | Denise |
| The whole climate thing is crazy – should never have been duped into this self-destructing nonsense in the first place – all this has done is enrich the UN and WEF. | Jan |
| Has always been a communist scam | Michael |
| NZ should pull out of the Paris agreement. There is no point in NZ reducing our miniscule emissions when other major polluters like the USA, India, Pakistan, China etc do virtually nothing. | david |
| now | Wiremu |
| It’s unrealistic and bad for the economy | Gavin |
| Yet another example of corrupted science driven by ideological dogma. | Mike |
| It is the biggest con trick ever played on a population apart from the Treaty grifting that National is allowing to perpetuate. Both destroy our potential for growth and any hope we can weather the effects of the Limits to Growth. | Doug |
| Let us emulate our major tradng partner, China FFS! | RIchard |
| The application of this policy instrument in New Zealand has been wholly executed by a politically driven propaganda narrative. It would have been more effective policy if it was introduced by reasoned promotion as a good thing to do. Not withstanding my comments, the underlying science is still marginally plausible. There is a fundamental issue in the dialog on climate change that is completely ignored. The consideration of atmospheric water vapor is completely glossed over, both in its relationship to heat transfer and total thermal mass balance. | Michael |
| Yes Defiantly | Tony |
| Sooner the better!! | Chris |
| It,s causing TOO much damage to NZ &needs to go | Cindy |
| It’s a farce . Someone is making lots of money whilst others are struggling | Sandra |
| It’s a big con. Always has been. Don’t know how so many people fell for it. | Faye |
| NZ should, as should all countries, switch immediately to fact-based decisions and actions. This would result in encouraging production of more CO2! | Peter |
| It saddens me to know so many of my fellow Kiwis just keep voting back in the left wing parties who seem to have little to no common sense at all. | Paul |
| The current crisis has pinpointed our exposure to our energy needs as against the Paris nonsense, which cannot be applied here. | Peter |
| A responsible Government will champion adaptive strategies and move us beyond past forms of restrictive governance that relied on inaccurate information from misinformed advisers. | Jeff |
| I have a degree from University of California in environmental sciences. The emissions trading scheme is a scam, based on totally inaccurate assumptions. | Dan |
| Drill baby Drill!!!! | Grant |
| We don’t like being scammed | Kerry |
| Key and Luxton are to blame for sitting on their hands while NZ goes broke. | Rex |
| Climate change is what the world does now and always has done | Alastair |
| without a doubt – money for nothing! NO one controls the weather – it is a normal cycle. Maybe we should control earthquakes and tsunamis?? We can’t do that either! | Patricia. |
| It is a no brained with the new evidence | Don |
| We all know why Ardern can’t come back to NZ This energy crisis has been exacerbated by ideological decisions and is laid squarely at her feet coupled with the Greens Goons | Murray |
| We should NEVER have signed up! | DICK |
| It is a SCAM and a HOAX | mike |
| It has achieved nothing for the climate and has added costs to our economy with no corresponding benefits | Terry |
| bloody stupid when the big countries take so little responsibility for their own | Robert |
| It makes no economic or logical sense to continue with the scheme | Maurice |
| Green ideology is sending us back to the Stone Age. | Brent |
| The most useless piece of rubbish ever. Why hasn’t the present Government scrapped this and other Ardern nonsense. Why do we let nitwits stuff up our country. | Don |
| yes scrapped!! | nev kath |
| The UN seems to be populated with egotists who won%u2019t admit they got things wrong | Gareth |
| Cabon zero is absolute nonsence | Michael |
| Ideological nonsense is destroying our way of life and damaging our economy | Mark |
| We need the energy to survive. | John |
| It is ridiculous to assume that little tiny NZ can have any significant effect (apart from a major volcanic event) on the world’s climate, one way or the other! | David |
| Nothing about New Zealand does will change the climate of the world end of New Zealand. | Bryan |
| UN employee Maurice Strong invented climate change as a device to get his World Governance by UN up and running. He was a dangerous ideologue who effectively brainwashed millions of people around the world to implement his idiocy and demonise CO2. Eventually exposed for bribery and corruption he resigned from the UN and fled to China. Scrap the ETS and scrap the UN. | Peter |
| It has always been a lie fostered by some scientists who should know better–and the Greens who haven’t the brains or common sense to reason out how large the lie actually is. | William |
| Yesterday | Chris |
| It always was a total scam. | steven |
| Concentrate on pollution reduction and forget about the ETS. | Bruce |
| and those responsible for it brought to account | tony |
| It’s expensive and doesn’t lower emissions | Neil |
| New Zealand needs a stable energy supply for everyone and the Greens and Labour have tried to destroy our security and economy by their stupid unworkable regulations! | June |
| We are over this global emissions scam. Ardern deliberately sabotaged our Refinery to destroy this country’s economy for this very event occurring now. If we tip over the edge you can thank her and subsequent leaders, including spinless Luxon. They’re all controlled puppets. | Peter |
| At the time the dreamers convinced those people who didn’t have a clue that it must happen, or else. | Fergus |
| False ideology and climate scaremonger madness has got us to this point, we now need to claw back economic security and bring national strength to NZ. We are capable of self support in a world of instability and it’s nuts to not bolster our resilience by using our own recourses. | Noel |
| Long past time that these various ways of damaging our economy and doing nothing at all for the environment were discarded and their stupid so -called science with them. | Roger |
| I am a farmer, earlier in career involved with pasture growth research in conjunction with Dr Koos Baars, Ruakura. I was aware, and this justifies it, that photosynthesis uptake was poorly accounted for, reinforced today by pasture growth we could back then only dream of. The methane argument is even more ridiculous being a short lived gas. I had questioned Richard Christie who signed the original Kyoto agreement on behalf of NZ. He realized it was political, not scientific, signed it because how was little old NZ to argue the matter at that point of the process! | Greg |
| It’s a rort. | Bruce |
| https://youtu.be/36GoNAcDYAE?si=mbMcE0DiYSNsD9l8 | Bruce |
| The emissions trading scheme has always been a scam and so complex that it’s unworkable Every indicator it uses for how much carbon is produced and absorbed is totally disputable, making a mockery of the solution to reduce carbon.And if agriculture was to pay for methane emissions,nz would be the only nation to do so, and that would destroy the most valuable industry this country has . It’s been a joke for decades that this unindustrilised forest covered , very clean green country is liable to pay what is essentially a pollution tax | Luke |
| Yes, we were talked into this stupid scheme with no thinking about the consequences. What a copout. | Fraser |
| A catastrophically expensive and ineffective solution to a non-existent problem. | davidf |
| One strike on a Middle East or Ukrainian refinery produces more emissions than NZ would release in a decade. The targetting of the global response to climate effects of pollution is completely wrong. | Neville |
| For a country 99% reliant on air/ship freighting to overseas markets to fund our Health,Education and Welfare State..”..perhaps the people have that voted Labour/Green comrades in should have a little think about their choices next time. Cant beat STUPID! | graham |
| No longer relevant, if it ever was !! | Geoffrey |
| Better late than never. But NZ will never recover from the economic damage done by Labour/Greens over the last 20 years. Lost production will not come back. | Neil |
| When policies are based on incorrect data, we should scrap it and redefine what this country needs for its own survival. Not hypothetical inflated factors that victimise farmers and ordinary households. | LAURA |
| Climate change has ben going on for ever | Bill |
| We need to stop signing up to woke agenda if this went to referendum it would never have past. | Alan |
| It was always a “Greenie Scam”. Time reality took centre stage. | Richard |
| Sooner the better | paul |
| Absolutely essential to restore NZ to prosperity! | Donna |
| There is now I information to justify changes. | Yvonne |
| Unfortunately for NZ Luxton is a fanatical believer in anything UN related. Doubt very much that he would lead the country in withdrawal from Paris. | Michele |
| The climate crisis is a scam | Grant |
| Who in the coalition government has the intestinal fortitude to make such decision? Based on last 2 and a bit years, no one! | Chris |
| Relative to Earth’s history our CO2 level currently is quite low. Using CO2 has a basis for global warming is a scam. | Bruce |
| Should have been gone by yesterday! A bigger hoax than Y2K! Worse, we have allowed generations of children to be indoctrinated in this cult by stupid, ideologically driven school teachers. | David |
| People following the climate alarm religion should do more of their own research rather than believing the media. | Hilary |
| we need a resilient low cost economy | Peter |
| The ETS is the result of fake science. We have been conned. | John |
| Decades of misinformation and now mis -calculations have sent NZ’s energy security to a ‘hell hole’. | Chris |
| Of course it should be scrapped, however I doubt whether Luxon will do it. | Simon |
| I have said it for years. Basic science at school taught us that the trees consume Co2 and in return give us oxygen. The UN and the Paris Accord are nothing short of a scam and if we keep following down the same path it will decimate New Zealand as we know it. | Wayne |
| It is a total rort. The money should be invested into our medical system. | Rod |
| Should never have been adopted! | Michael |
| while you write about emissions, you forgot that CO2 is not a driver of climate!! | James (Jim) Findlay |
| It’s not in the best interest of the country. | Maria |
| Without any hesitation. Just think of the savings on associated personnel. to say the least | Martyn |
| Recheck the figures and reset to facts | Gaye |
| most definitely scrapped, its a noose around the countries neck with nothing to gain and everything to lose | john |
| Should have been scrapped long ago! New Zealands emissions barely register on the global scale and never will. 5 million people!!! | John |
| Fools in gummint. | Gill |
| It was always a deeply flawed piece of legislation | Robbie |
| 100% scrapped, The ETS is a joke – another policy dreamt up by the global elites to control us & keep us poor! | Matt |
| It is no longer supported by evidence | Ian |
| We need to be realistic about our emission and scrap the Paris accord | Michael |
| Yes, it is totally flawed. | Harry |
| ASAP | John |
| A big Con job from its very beginning | Errol |
| The reasoning is comprehensively covered and explained in Dr Reaney’s article ( together with your own comments ) related to the majorly higher absorption rate of CO2 by our trees, plants , grasses etc than was previously thought. | Hugh |
| Definitely it should, it’s a scam. | Kylie |
| But it won’t happen. | Alan |
| Definitely, NOW. Following these lunatic, dis-proven theories/models will bankrupt NZ. Witness the manufacturing and processing plants closing due to high energy costs. Also pull out of Paris accord and scrap the carbon taxes, re-open Marsden point. Drill for more oil and gas. NZ needs to be as self sufficient as possible. | Andrew |
| of course…..wrecked by the Commies | Mark |
| Of course it should. Our nation’s energy security should always be the prime consideration. I never accepted the scaremongering around greenhouse gas, and now — as this article clearly presents — it has been debunked even more fully and any remaining danger could be countered by just planting more trees! Let’s secure our energy future, revive the economy and stop letting nonsensical policies put out by the UN etc determine NZ policy. | Marla |
| Reduce carbon emissions more slowly till we are more resilient with fossill fuels | david |
| The ETS is just another massive drain on our economy with no tangible benefit to the country as a whole. It is typical sheepish behaviour by our govt. | Mike |
| there is NO such thing as global warming!Just a huge money making scheme to catch the gullible | Linda |
| It should be scrapped, as even if CO2 slightly warmed the planet, it would not be a problem, as many more people die from extreme cold than die from extreme heat. | Chuck |
| Another huge scam sold to us when will people wake up ? When will governments start to govern ? | Peter |
| Absolutely. Expose woke Green policies & Reds untrustworthiness. Our PM needs to wake-up his ideas. | DOUGLAS |
| Climate change is a complete scam, do away with the ETC. PLUS any other part of the climate scam!! | Stuart |
| Imbeciles should never be elected | chris |
| Absolutely, Co2 is a life source and not a pollutant. The ETS is a scam and needs removing as soon as possible. The evidence that is now available proves this beyond any doubt. | James |
| Helen & Jacinda strike again! | Andrew |
| The great climate con impoverishing western nations | Sacha |
| Absolutely 100% | RANEE |
| ASAP! | Lee |
| It is a work of ideological fiction | Frank |
| Seriously flawed. Both Labour’s Clark and National’s Key were either sucked in or had an agenda to hamstring NZ with this ideological nonsense. | Tony |
| “This” is more than a wake-up ! Th alarm bells are deafening. No fossil fuel means chaos and complete anarchy, the destruction of any semblence of social order. Wellington has been a “nest for idiots” for too long ! | CHARLES |
| “We’re too small to make a difference.” | bruce |
| We should follow China’s pragmatic approach, it’s interesting that the original calculations which led to emission controls, were grossly overstated, and blindly followed by New Zealand’s political ‘leaders’ to the serious detriment of our energy security for years to come if the present government doesn’t take immediate action – a pretty forlorn hope judging by its complete backtrack on other promises last election. | Terry |
| It’s not based on true science, just an idea. | Gavin |
| Should never have been enacted | Phil |
| It’s a scam | Daniel |
| should never have freed in the first place, they never understood that they big abpiters would never comply | Peter |
| The party that will take New Zealand out of the Paris Accord will get my vote | Chris |
| DO IT NOW | Gordon |
| 1 day of the present wars Ukraine/Iran would account for at least 50 years of New Zealand’s pollution, and where and who receives the emissions payment. | Mark |
| No brainer, China may have a governing system different from NZ, but their long term strategies and planning makes us look stupid. | Tom |
| Along with all legislation relating to so-called anthropologic global warming/climate change. | Vic |
| It’s just another bull shit money grab, where does the money go?? Think about that | John |
| The wars that are going on, and have been for many years are now, are doing far more damage that our meague amount of pollution. Just can our emissions scheme, what’s the point. | Peter |
| Anyone with any sense would never have been sucked in in the first place. | Elizabeth |
| The whole picture of the climate presented to us is fraudulent, power hungry UN self serving and is destructive to advanced nations. This is intentional and no mistake. | John |
| A Definite over haul needed. Like a lot of other things Ideology takeover | Francis |
| The ETS should have been scrapped and the Zero Carbon Act repealed as the first action of the incoming Coalition government. Economic and Energy sabotage by the previous government was not tolerable if a productive country remains the national objective | Peter |
| At once. Get out of this Ponzi scheme and stand on our own feet. Plus– get rid of all these useless eaters in all Govt Departments who undermine actively our elected Government. Replace them with stone-cold technocrats and professionals with proven professional background. Saves a lot of money. | Michael |
| The ETS is making New Zealand lose businesses. | Kent |
| Closing Marsden Point oil refinery was one of the most foolhardy moves Ardern and her Labour government ever made. I live in hope that the plant is not so derelict that it can’t be resurrected. | Janet |
| The errors in calculations have neem known for some time (years).NO influencing force TV Radio or Press have had the strength of conviction to challenge the ridiculous settings. | Gavin |
| Definately | Gerry |
| losing our refinery at Marsden Point was a huge blow to NZ. Some of us were fighting this closure in 2022 but the public didn’t care then. There were sit in protests,Karl Barkley went around the country trying to wake people up about the impending closure. A lot of kiwi’s bought shares in the refinery to attempt a majority,so we could over throw the board. I will NEVER forgive Ardern for recklessly selling off our refinery! it was the peoples refinery, it was not for sale! these woke bloody politicians are asleep at the wheel!! | lisa |
| This is a must do | clint |
| Apart from pulling out of the Paris accord which we should do under urgency, we also need to exit from the WHO & the UN imho. | John |
| long overdue – IPCC has yet to get any model correct | Collin |
| This article says nothing about the fallacies of the entire climate confusion. Of course the ETS should be scrapped!! And only as a beginning of the dismantelling of the climate scam to tax the air we breathe!! | Peter |
| It’s quite ludicrous in essence given the major powers that be in the world making the worst pollution imaginable, have simply thumbed their noses at such a totally ridiculous concept. Only a fool would be paying money to hidden entities, sight unseen, secreted away in some far away corner of the globe. The whole formulation is pie in the sky. NZ is a tiny sliver of land, bascially two small islands surrounded by vast oceans. It is probable that we as a country contribute about 0.3% of global pollution. So get real NZ Govt – kick it into touch. | John |
| It is/was was based on inaccurate data and basically has strangled our economy all in the name of PC and look at me idiot politicans | Mike |
| absolutely, we have no money ! | Mike |
| Adhern was a dick. | Evans |
| If the ETS is based on incorrect data, and it is damaging our economy with no perceived gain elsewhere, to continue as is would be irrational. | Basil |
| Why does New Zealand continue to adopt UN policies that are proven to be wrong and against the interests of NZ. | Trevor |
| National’s Simon Watts also signed NZ up to increased rates on the ETA. He is incompetent and should be kept away from decision making. His latest foray is currently allowing Councils to prepare Water Management Plans with unelected iwi in voting co-governance positions to decide directions that allocate ratepayer funds. This is completely against National’s pre-election policies on abolishing 3 Waters and its strategies for iwi control of water. | DAVID |
| And the sooner the better. Clearly it was idealogical nonsense all along. Will the National Party have the foresight, fesrlessness and independence to act? Doubtful. But NZ First would. | Graham |
| Absolutely without doubt. | Brian |
| Scrap the ETS before we become a third world country with no local industry. You can’t run a sawmill, truck, or tractor on solar power. | Mark |
| This ETS serves NO PURPOSE & IS THE CAUSE OF OUR INFLATION! | Dominique Greenslade |
| It should never have been created. | Jon |
| Of course it should. Never ought to have had it in the first place. | John |
| Long overdue already. | Clive |
| It’s about time to end this scam. | Stephan |
| Asap | Peter |
| Money does not fix climate changes. All it does is make a few greedy, richer. Europe has consistently screwed our exports. We need to focus on self sustainability, not giving our profits (productivity) to greedy offshore companies | Raymond |
| It should never have been put in place . | BrUcE |
| All the big emitting countries have pulled out, our contribution is miniscule | Peter |
| The ETS is just a giant Ponzi scheme or money go round. Ask any politician where the money actually goes and what is the actual measured reduction in emissions and you will be rewarded with a blank stare followed by a burst of nonsense about being seen to do our bit on the world stage. A complete and utter joke which only adds to the cost of living for everyone so just bin it. | Ian |
| Scrapped immediately and re open marsden point. Labour and Greens have destroyed our country and our living standards. NZ is now too expensive to live here. | Allan |
| Absolutely – the ETS should have been scrapped years ago. It was a dumb idea from the start and for 20 years it has been destroying wealth and progress. How mad is that! | David |
| This is such a depressing article – but so true. How can NZ be so stupid as to sacrifice our future for inaccurate goals? Not only that – even if we totally shut down our economy, our contribution would be so small, it wouldn’t make a blind bit of difference! | Murray |
| Scrap the ETS, repeal the Zero Carbon Act, and withdraw from the Paris Agreement! | Paul |
| I would support a government that did what is recommended – repeal the ETS, and submit corrected figures to the UN that prioritise rebuilding our economy, and reducing emissions through technology and efficiency. China is very smart at how it approached all of this, while NZ was extremely stupid! | Helen |
| Yes, remove the ETS and re-open the oil refinery. | Thomas |