Sheep Fart Tax NZ
Aug 30th 2005, 1:14 pm
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Sheep Fart Tax NZ
Is this true ?
New Zealand farmers have to pay a "fart tax" because of the methane emissions (gas) that come from their millions of sheep. Methane gas is a threat to the Earth's ozone layer.
http://www.savethesheep.com/kidsCorner.asp
No wonder the Ozone layer is gone over NZ ! 70 Million sheep!
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New Zealand farmers have to pay a "fart tax" because of the methane emissions (gas) that come from their millions of sheep. Methane gas is a threat to the Earth's ozone layer.
http://www.savethesheep.com/kidsCorner.asp
No wonder the Ozone layer is gone over NZ ! 70 Million sheep!
Back from my Hols Now!
Aug 30th 2005, 2:37 pm
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Re: Sheep Fart Tax NZ
This was a major thing in politics two years ago.
Farmers protested as they only know how and one MP drove an ancient tractor up the Parliament steps.
As far I can remember it was dropped as it was hugely unpopular and agriculture is NZ's major earner (thought of those votes eh Helen!)
This is from the NZ Herald at the time (September 2003):
National MP Shane Ardern chose a different way of going up Parliament's front steps yesterday - at the wheel of an elderly tractor called Myrtle.
But the stunt earned him a telling off from the Speaker, Jonathan Hunt.
Mr Ardern, a Taranaki farm-owner, grabbed the wheel of the tractor during yesterday's farmer protest against the proposed flatulence tax and gunned it up Parliament's steps, to the cheers of a crowd of several hundred protesters.
Parliament's manager of security and operations, Andrew Standish, tried to stop the MP.
Eventually Mr Ardern backed down the steps.
He refused to comment afterwards, but Mr Hunt said he would read a written apology he had received from Mr Ardern to Parliament next Tuesday.
"I have deliberately not been in touch with the police, and it's their call whether they take the matter any further," he said.
During the protest, another National MP, Lockwood Smith, led two cows onto Parliament's steps. One left its mark on the stairs, to the amusement of the crowd.
National leader Bill English, New Zealand First leader Winston Peters, Act rural affairs spokesman Gerry Eckhoff and United Future leader Peter Dunne all voiced their opposition to the tax at the rally.
The protest started downtown and involved about 20 tractors and utility vehicles. When it reached Parliament, organisers presented a 64,000-signature petition opposing the tax.
Farmers chanted slogans and sang a ditty with the refrain: "We won't pay the fart tax" to the tune of nursery rhyme Frere Jacques.
They waved placards such as "GE farts do no harm", "Thieving tax-hungry socialist government", and "Methane Pete".
The convener of the ministerial group on climate change, Pete Hodgson, Associate Agriculture Minister Damien O'Connor and Green MP Ian Ewen-Street were drowned out when they tried to speak.
The Government wants to raise about $8 million a year from farmers to help to pay for research into reducing agricultural greenhouse gas emissions, in line with the provisions of the Kyoto Protocol.
It is proposing a levy on livestock, which would cost farmers an average of about $300 a year each.
But it may back down on the levy - although it still wants to collect the research money from farmers through voluntary means.
Farmers protested as they only know how and one MP drove an ancient tractor up the Parliament steps.
As far I can remember it was dropped as it was hugely unpopular and agriculture is NZ's major earner (thought of those votes eh Helen!)
This is from the NZ Herald at the time (September 2003):
National MP Shane Ardern chose a different way of going up Parliament's front steps yesterday - at the wheel of an elderly tractor called Myrtle.
But the stunt earned him a telling off from the Speaker, Jonathan Hunt.
Mr Ardern, a Taranaki farm-owner, grabbed the wheel of the tractor during yesterday's farmer protest against the proposed flatulence tax and gunned it up Parliament's steps, to the cheers of a crowd of several hundred protesters.
Parliament's manager of security and operations, Andrew Standish, tried to stop the MP.
Eventually Mr Ardern backed down the steps.
He refused to comment afterwards, but Mr Hunt said he would read a written apology he had received from Mr Ardern to Parliament next Tuesday.
"I have deliberately not been in touch with the police, and it's their call whether they take the matter any further," he said.
During the protest, another National MP, Lockwood Smith, led two cows onto Parliament's steps. One left its mark on the stairs, to the amusement of the crowd.
National leader Bill English, New Zealand First leader Winston Peters, Act rural affairs spokesman Gerry Eckhoff and United Future leader Peter Dunne all voiced their opposition to the tax at the rally.
The protest started downtown and involved about 20 tractors and utility vehicles. When it reached Parliament, organisers presented a 64,000-signature petition opposing the tax.
Farmers chanted slogans and sang a ditty with the refrain: "We won't pay the fart tax" to the tune of nursery rhyme Frere Jacques.
They waved placards such as "GE farts do no harm", "Thieving tax-hungry socialist government", and "Methane Pete".
The convener of the ministerial group on climate change, Pete Hodgson, Associate Agriculture Minister Damien O'Connor and Green MP Ian Ewen-Street were drowned out when they tried to speak.
The Government wants to raise about $8 million a year from farmers to help to pay for research into reducing agricultural greenhouse gas emissions, in line with the provisions of the Kyoto Protocol.
It is proposing a levy on livestock, which would cost farmers an average of about $300 a year each.
But it may back down on the levy - although it still wants to collect the research money from farmers through voluntary means.
Aug 31st 2005, 7:38 am
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Re: Sheep Fart Tax NZ
Originally Posted by England Girl
This was a major thing in politics two years ago.
Farmers protested as they only know how and one MP drove an ancient tractor up the Parliament steps.
As far I can remember it was dropped as it was hugely unpopular and agriculture is NZ's major earner (thought of those votes eh Helen!)
This is from the NZ Herald at the time (September 2003):
National MP Shane Ardern chose a different way of going up Parliament's front steps yesterday - at the wheel of an elderly tractor called Myrtle.
But the stunt earned him a telling off from the Speaker, Jonathan Hunt.
Mr Ardern, a Taranaki farm-owner, grabbed the wheel of the tractor during yesterday's farmer protest against the proposed flatulence tax and gunned it up Parliament's steps, to the cheers of a crowd of several hundred protesters.
Parliament's manager of security and operations, Andrew Standish, tried to stop the MP.
Eventually Mr Ardern backed down the steps.
He refused to comment afterwards, but Mr Hunt said he would read a written apology he had received from Mr Ardern to Parliament next Tuesday.
"I have deliberately not been in touch with the police, and it's their call whether they take the matter any further," he said.
During the protest, another National MP, Lockwood Smith, led two cows onto Parliament's steps. One left its mark on the stairs, to the amusement of the crowd.
National leader Bill English, New Zealand First leader Winston Peters, Act rural affairs spokesman Gerry Eckhoff and United Future leader Peter Dunne all voiced their opposition to the tax at the rally.
The protest started downtown and involved about 20 tractors and utility vehicles. When it reached Parliament, organisers presented a 64,000-signature petition opposing the tax.
Farmers chanted slogans and sang a ditty with the refrain: "We won't pay the fart tax" to the tune of nursery rhyme Frere Jacques.
They waved placards such as "GE farts do no harm", "Thieving tax-hungry socialist government", and "Methane Pete".
The convener of the ministerial group on climate change, Pete Hodgson, Associate Agriculture Minister Damien O'Connor and Green MP Ian Ewen-Street were drowned out when they tried to speak.
The Government wants to raise about $8 million a year from farmers to help to pay for research into reducing agricultural greenhouse gas emissions, in line with the provisions of the Kyoto Protocol.
It is proposing a levy on livestock, which would cost farmers an average of about $300 a year each.
But it may back down on the levy - although it still wants to collect the research money from farmers through voluntary means.
Farmers protested as they only know how and one MP drove an ancient tractor up the Parliament steps.
As far I can remember it was dropped as it was hugely unpopular and agriculture is NZ's major earner (thought of those votes eh Helen!)
This is from the NZ Herald at the time (September 2003):
National MP Shane Ardern chose a different way of going up Parliament's front steps yesterday - at the wheel of an elderly tractor called Myrtle.
But the stunt earned him a telling off from the Speaker, Jonathan Hunt.
Mr Ardern, a Taranaki farm-owner, grabbed the wheel of the tractor during yesterday's farmer protest against the proposed flatulence tax and gunned it up Parliament's steps, to the cheers of a crowd of several hundred protesters.
Parliament's manager of security and operations, Andrew Standish, tried to stop the MP.
Eventually Mr Ardern backed down the steps.
He refused to comment afterwards, but Mr Hunt said he would read a written apology he had received from Mr Ardern to Parliament next Tuesday.
"I have deliberately not been in touch with the police, and it's their call whether they take the matter any further," he said.
During the protest, another National MP, Lockwood Smith, led two cows onto Parliament's steps. One left its mark on the stairs, to the amusement of the crowd.
National leader Bill English, New Zealand First leader Winston Peters, Act rural affairs spokesman Gerry Eckhoff and United Future leader Peter Dunne all voiced their opposition to the tax at the rally.
The protest started downtown and involved about 20 tractors and utility vehicles. When it reached Parliament, organisers presented a 64,000-signature petition opposing the tax.
Farmers chanted slogans and sang a ditty with the refrain: "We won't pay the fart tax" to the tune of nursery rhyme Frere Jacques.
They waved placards such as "GE farts do no harm", "Thieving tax-hungry socialist government", and "Methane Pete".
The convener of the ministerial group on climate change, Pete Hodgson, Associate Agriculture Minister Damien O'Connor and Green MP Ian Ewen-Street were drowned out when they tried to speak.
The Government wants to raise about $8 million a year from farmers to help to pay for research into reducing agricultural greenhouse gas emissions, in line with the provisions of the Kyoto Protocol.
It is proposing a levy on livestock, which would cost farmers an average of about $300 a year each.
But it may back down on the levy - although it still wants to collect the research money from farmers through voluntary means.
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