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Article: NEW ZEALAND: NATIONAL PREPARED TO GUT EMISSIONS TRADING SCHEME

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June 7, 2008
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The government of New Zealand issued the following news release:

National has once again proved it's slippery on climate change, and will tell audiences whatever they think they want to hear, David Parker said today.

His comments come after David Carter told a Federated Farmers' conference in Wanaka yesterday that New Zealand agriculture will decline if it is "locked" into an emissions trading scheme.

David Carter is reported as saying that "the effect of the emissions trading scheme on agriculture has the potential to be more devastating than the reforms of the 1980s".

"Not only is this factually incorrect, it is clear that that if National had their way they would completely gut the ...

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