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New Zealand’s dairy industry-backed methane target rollback sets bad precedent, scientists warn
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New Zealand’s Methane Target Sets Bad Precedent, Scientists Warn
New Zealand’s decision to set a less ambitious methane emissions reduction target sets a worrying precedent that other nations may follow, scientists have warned.
www.bloomberg.com
October 13, 2025 at 2:31 PM
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‘A lot of action quite quickly’: How the Government won over the farm lobby: www.thepress.co.nz/nz-news/3605...

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December 20, 2024 at 5:55 PM
greenpeace.org.nz
The Luxon Govt is once again putting corporate profits ahead of people’s health by proposing freshwater policies that will drive more dairy pollution at the expense of safe drinking water and swimmable rivers.

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Luxon Government to favour dairy pollution at the expense of drinking water
Luxon’s Government is once again putting corporate profits ahead of people’s health by proposing freshwater policies that will drive more dairy pollution at the expense of safe drinking water and…
www.greenpeace.org
May 29, 2025 at 10:40 PM
nickofnz.bsky.social
ICYMI - Hundreds of pages of emails show farming groups have been in regular contact with Government ministers, pressing for changes to environmental rules. In some cases, the lobbying was followed by Government action.
www.thepress.co.nz/nz-news/3605...

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The art of lobbying a government
“It’s great to see so many of the ideas we put forward ... picked up by the coalition government,” said the Federated Farmers president.
www.thepress.co.nz
January 15, 2025 at 7:10 PM
nickofnz.bsky.social
How much influence does @FedFarmers have over the Luxon Government?

Fed Farmers won’t be able to strip our charitable status as the law stands now, says Greenpeace
www.thepost.co.nz/business/360...

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Greenpeace vs Federated Farmers stoush boils over
Feds are trying to remove the enviromental group’s charitable status - but ‘under current law they don’t have a leg to stand on’, says Greenpeace NZ head Russel Norman.
www.thepost.co.nz
May 12, 2025 at 8:19 PM
nickofnz.bsky.social
Dairy conversions boom in Canterbury despite ‘nitrate emergency’

⁦‪Fonterra‬⁩ increases profit and pollution while we pay the price of contaminated drinking water, polluted rivers and methane climate emissions.

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Dairy conversions boom despite ‘nitrate emergency’
Canterbury could soon have 35,000 more dairy cows on its pastures, as consenting rules are relaxed and prices for milk products spiral.
www.thepress.co.nz
October 4, 2025 at 7:57 AM
nickofnz.bsky.social
"The country’s dairying industry is the most potent corporate influence on politics in NZ. This became even greater when former Federated Farmers president Andrew Hoggard was elected as an Act MP and immediately installed as the Minister for Food Safety."

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Integrity Briefing: How dairy lobbyists get their way in the Beehive
Bryce Edwards writes –  The country’s dairying industry is the most potent corporate influence on politics in New Zealand. This became even greater when former Federated Farmers president And…
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April 3, 2025 at 11:32 PM
greenpeace.org.nz
This RNZ investigation shows how the dairy industry lobbied the government to put private profit before public health and won.

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How multinational dairy companies convinced ministers to back away from new rules for baby formula
Tougher guidelines were 11 years in the making. But for multinational dairy companies, profits were at stake.
www.rnz.co.nz
April 3, 2025 at 1:36 AM
nickofnz.bsky.social
Disgusting!

Farmers now won't even need consent to pollute waterways as government undoes RMA fresh water protection rules

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Farmers won't need consent to pollute waterways as government undoes RMA rules
The changes will save thousands of farmers from having to lodge resource consents to discharge pollutants into waterways, but critics say councils should be in charge.
www.rnz.co.nz
August 12, 2025 at 9:40 PM
nickofnz.bsky.social
Farmers saying the quiet bit out loud.

"We've lost control"... of local government?

Farmers push for new breakaway Canterbury council
www.stuff.co.nz/nz-news/3503...

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August 13, 2024 at 9:39 PM
nickofnz.bsky.social
It's cheaper to produce milk in New Zealand than it is in ANY of the other major milk producing countries.

I wonder why that is 🙄

I dunno, could it be that the regulations are so few and so lax in NZ?

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A sign warns of polluted river water Cows wallow in a river Cows wallow in mud Mud from intensive winter grazing washes down through a river into the sea
March 12, 2025 at 3:48 AM
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Greenpeace accuses government climate panel of only listening to 'vested interests' www.rnz.co.nz/news/nationa...

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Greenpeace accuses government climate panel of only listening to 'vested interests'
The panel only met with two groups when it was preparing its findings.
www.rnz.co.nz
March 12, 2025 at 2:03 AM
nickofnz.bsky.social
The kids have to watch out for melted plastic and insect lavae in their crappy, budget school lunches, but meanwhile...

Farm machinery tax discount a 'boost' for rural economy
www.rnz.co.nz/news/country...

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Farm machinery tax discount a 'boost' for rural economy
Those in the agriculture sector who can afford to buy new farm equipment are feeling buoyed by the government's new tax incentive.
www.rnz.co.nz
May 28, 2025 at 3:02 AM
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Oh yes. I have 3 neighbours with #Swastikars #StinkEyeDaily #AtLeast1CyberTruckInTown #Wankpanzer #Reichsmobile #TeslaDeathTraps #LeonEndedAccidentReporting #TooMuchInfluence #AskWisconsin
November 10, 2025 at 12:53 AM
greenpeace.org.nz
Milking it: how the intensive dairy industry rewrote freshwater rules in their favour www.greenpeace.org/aotearoa/sto... via @willappelbe.bsky.social

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Milking it: how the intensive dairy industry rewrote freshwater rules in their favour - Greenpeace Aotearoa
Shocking new evidence exposes how the intensive dairy industry lobbied MPs to rewrite freshwater rules in their favour.
www.greenpeace.org
January 23, 2025 at 3:54 AM
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Politics and Religion should be Mutually Exclusive Meme
December 28, 2024 at 8:00 AM
nickofnz.bsky.social
"Setting New Zealand’s climate targets is a matter of political and moral judgment, not scientific modelling or mathematical calculation"

Methane review offers nothing new, but it was never meant to newsroom.co.nz/2024/12/05/m... via @marcdaalder.bsky.social

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Methane review offers nothing new, but it was never meant to
Analysis: Setting NZ's climate targets is a matter of political and moral judgment, not scientific modelling or mathematical calculation, writes Marc Daalder.
newsroom.co.nz
December 4, 2024 at 8:36 PM
nickofnz.bsky.social
Of course Luxon’s new Chief Science advisor is a dairy industry guy.

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May 6, 2025 at 6:59 AM
nickofnz.bsky.social
It's hard to feel any sympathy for Federated Farmers here...

A proposed law change could mean Federated Farmers will be charged tax on its membership for the first time.
www.rnz.co.nz/news/busines... #nzpol

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Opposition mounts to new tax for organisations
Federated Farmers says it is not a routine tax consultation, it is a "significant new interpretation that overturns 20 years of settled practice".
www.rnz.co.nz
June 24, 2025 at 6:01 AM