We have already established that the Emissions Trading Scheme is a crock. Fatuous solution for a problem that doesn't exist and would be insoluble even if it did - usual stuff. The submissions to the Parliamentary Committee looking into this before it is passed regardless (this is New Zealand after all) are giving it a right panning and the condemnations are getting more strident by the day.
Yesterday the jokers who run the aluminium smelter at Tiwai said that if the ETS comes into force they will be off like a bride's nightie. 3000 jobs and billions of dollars gone. Southland would not survive - you aren't going to get by replacing an aluminium smelter with a swede exporting business, are you? And for what? For a lunatic idealistic folly of a bunch of bigots who have no connection with the real world.
When Rio Tinto close down the plant because they have been taxed out of the country (and make no mistake this ETS bullshit is turning out to be no more than a tax and a tax on a biblical scale) are they going to see the light and stop making aluminium? Are they buggery. They have already said that they will take the operation to China. What a surprise. They will go to a country of pragmatists who have had the commonsense to tell Kyoto to get some sexual gratification as they leave the building. And by so doing the New Zealand gummint will have in fact increased the amount of carbon emitted (as if it matters) as any plant built in China would be nowhere near as 'clean' as the one in Southland. So in one fell swoop we wreck an entire section of the country and increase global pollution. Brilliant.
This ETS nonsense has to be stopped before it totally ruins this country - and I'm not joking.
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