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Greenpeace New Zealand\u2019s Executive Director, Dr Russel Norman, has blasted Stephen Joyce\u2019s first Budget for \u201cactively funding\u201d pollution. <\/p>\n

Norman says the just-released Budget pours money into subsidising water and climate pollution, and does nothing to address the agriculture sector\u2019s spiralling emissions. <\/p>\n

“The Government has already allocated around half a billion taxpayer dollars to subsidise industrial-scale irrigation schemes around the country, which will result in more cows and more polluted rivers. And now it has just proudly announced it will be injecting even more cash into it. <\/p>\n

\u201cIt\u2019s also subsidising the climate emissions from agriculture to the tune of around $500 million per year, based on the 2016 Budget figures. Agriculture, New Zealand\u2019s largest polluter, is currently excluded from the Emissions Trading Scheme, which means that taxpayers are being forced to foot the bill for the sector\u2019s emissions. <\/p>\n

\u201cAs a very basic right I\u2019d say New Zealanders deserve a Budget that doesn\u2019t actively fund the destruction of our culture and environment. <\/p>\n

\u201cPut it this way: If the only thing we did right now was to stop spending money on increasing pollution, it would still be hugely significant for both the climate and for our long-term economy.\u201d<\/p>\n

In practice, Norman would like to see an end to public subsidies of big irrigation and the cut-rate royalty schemes that aid the expansion of the oil industry, as well as bringing the agriculture sector into a strengthened \u00a0Emissions Trading Scheme. <\/p>\n

\u201cThe next step would be for those savings to be reallocated into a strategy that promotes investment in the growth of the clean energy, sustainable transport and ecological agriculture,\u201d he says. <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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