Make the right decision, Peters urges Fonterra farmers
New Zealand First leader and Foreign Minister Winston Peters is ratcheting up pressure on Fonterra farmers as they vote on divesting the co-operative’s consumer and related businesses.
OPINION: Your old mate notes that the highest court in the land, the Supreme Court, recently granted leave for appeal for one Michael John Smith v Fonterra Co-operative Group Limited.
Smith launched legal action against seven of the country's largest polluters and fossil fuel producers, including Fonterra and Dairy Holdings, claiming injury from their ongoing emissions.
Both the High Court and Court of Appeal dismissed the claim, but the Supreme Court has now agreed to hear the case.
"I'm pleased that for the first time the courts are considering the enormity of the climate crisis," says Smith, who co-chairs the Iwi Chairs Forum.
The irony is that this is the very same 'climate activist' Michael (Mike) Smith who cut down the famous tree on Auckland's One Tree Hill a few years back, with not one thought given to the climate-saving carbon sequestration of this much celebrated tree!
Relationships are key to opening new trading opportunities and dealing with some of the rules that countries impose that impede the free flow of trade.
Dawn Meats chief executive Niall Browne says their joint venture with Alliance Group will create “a dynamic industry competitor”.
Tributes have flowed following the death of former Prime Minister and political and business leader, Jim Bolger. He was 90.
A drop in methane targets announced by the Government this month has pleased farmers but there are concerns that without cross-party support, the targets would change once a Labour-led Government is voted into office.
Farmer shareholders of meat processor Alliance have voted in favour of a proposed $270 million joint venture investment by Irish company, Dawn Meats.
The former chair of the Bay of Plenty Regional Council and farmer, Doug Leeder, says rural communities' biggest fear right now is the lack of long-term certainty over environmental regulations.
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