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2022-10-20 Down Under
'Fart tax my a**e': Farmers hit the streets across New Zealand to protest Jacinda Ardern's 'burp and fart' animal tax aimed at tackling climate change
[Daily Mail, where America gets its news]
  • Convoys of vehicles disrupted traffic in Wellington and Auckland, as protestors demanded the government ditch plans for an animal 'burp and fart' tax

  • PM Jacinda Ardern touted 'world first' levy on emissions of methane and nitrous oxide produced by the nation's six million cows and 26 million sheep

  • Thousands of farmers gathered brandishing signs saying the policy 'stinks'
Posted by Skidmark 2022-10-20 06:04|| || Front Page|| [11134 views ]  Top

#1 My understanding is that New Zealand signed onto to the Great Green Scam™ because they thought that the combination of only having minor light industry footprint and lots of hydropower would make them $Rich$ from Industrial Powers climate danegeld. *Surprise* They discovered that they were "too pigment deficient" as the various UN organizations defined "Sheep farts" as industrial CO2 -- 'Too Bad, No Green Bucks™ For You!'.
Posted by magpie 2022-10-20 13:16||   2022-10-20 13:16|| Front Page Top

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