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The Green Party has decided to support the ETS after winning agreement that money would be recycled into a Billion dollar fund to make New Zealand homes more energy efficient and cheaper to heat. A price on carbon will encourage sustainable alternatives to our energy wasting and unsustainable way of life, but this ETS will only reduce emissions by about 2 percent. Far more than that is needed, and quickly, if the world is to avoid the huge financial and environmental costs of severe climate change.
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Sewage ponds have overflowed at the Lake Horowhenua treatment plant with only new unlined earth banks keeping them from spilling into the lake. "This is turning out to be one of New Zealand’s worst sewage disasters in years," Says Green Co-Leader Russel Norman, "yet Horowhenua Mayor Brendan Duffy is still in denial. He needs to accept there is a major problem and take leadership on it or resign."
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The National Party's new energy policy is a tribute to cronyism and makes no economic sense. It ignores our biggest energy problem, transport fuels and the rising cost of oil, and relies on ‘drill and hope’. No one with any common sense would invest in more subsidies to fossil fuels when New Zealand is so well endowed with renewable energy.

Green Party's 2008 List

Meet our candidates for this year's election. Along with our familiar MPs, you see some new faces. Read all about them on our candidates page.