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Article: Emissions trading scheme threatens farming - Carter; AGRICULTURAL SECTOR
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- The Press
- Article date:
- June 7, 2008
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The Government's emissions trading scheme (ETS) could be more
damaging to New Zealand farmers than the reforms of the 1980s,
National Party agriculture spokesman David Carter says.
Carter told the Federated Farmers high-country committee's annual
conference in Wanaka yesterday that if New Zealand agriculture was
locked into the scheme, and was the only country to do so, the
industry would decline.
Not only would produce be sourced from elsewhere, food production
would be shifted to other, less efficient countries, he said.
"The overall result: an increase in carbon emissions worldwide,
not a decrease."
"It (the scheme) has the potential to be more devastating to New
Zealand agriculture ...