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About Moana Mackey
About Moana Mackey – Moana is a Labour Party Member of Parliament and her party’s spokesperson for the Environment, Climate Change, Science, and Associate health spokesperson with responsibility for...
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Green on the outside, red in the middle
I’ve always been passionate about environmental issues. Access to clean water, clean air, safe food and protection from pollutants is as much about social justice as it is environmental and economic...
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Ok, let’s make offshore oil and gas exploration about the science and not...
One of the things that has struck me during the whole debate around offshore oil and gas exploration is the number of times National Ministers and MPs have claimed that they are making decisions based...
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I’ve just finished nearly two weeks doing the EU visitors programme based around climate change, environment and energy policy. I’ll blog more about that in the New Year once I’ve had time to go...
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The damn Ruataniwha dam
The Environmental Protection Authority (EPA) board of inquiry hearings into the controversial Hawkes Bay Ruataniwha dam proposal (aka the Tukituki catchment scheme) took an interesting turn late last...
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Green Solar Policy a good start, Labour’s Solar Policy a smarter start
In 2006 the Parliamentary Commissioner for the Environment released a report on the potential of distributed renewable generation along the lines of that being proposed by the Greens with their Solar...
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The 3 words Key would speak if he cared
I’m going to be honest with you. For five long years I have been waiting to hear three simple words from our Prime Minister. Three simple words which would mean so much. Three words which would show...
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Remembering Parekura and the East Coast he loved
This week marks a year since we lost our matua Parekura. I was driving home to Gisborne from Whakatane when I found out he had passed on. I had been told that he wasn’t doing well just before I went...
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National burn forestry industry: Where we make jobs in the next Government
What the hell did the forestry sector ever do to the National Party? I know one thing they did – they ensured that at the end of the first Kyoto commitment period New Zealand was in the black despite...
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Why Labour’s Red has a deeper tinge of Green on climate change
I recently did a political panel on environmental issues at the Glass Packaging Forum AGM. The National representative Maggie Barry got herself into quite a state of excitement regarding Labour and...
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