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New Zealand wants to introduce price for methane
ORF AUSTRIAN RADIO AND TELEVISION ^ | 6/9/2022 | News Agencies/ORF Austria

Posted on 06/09/2022 7:27:56 AM PDT by Nextrush

The climate-damaging greenhouse gas methane has risen at a record pace worldwide in the past year. It is produced to a large extent in agriculture by the fermentation of feed. In New Zealand, a major agricultural exporter, the sector will soon pay for emissions. The farmers are not averse at all, in the sense of the climate.

The draft of the project was published on Wednesday. A price for agricultural emissions is to be set in order to curb the large source of climate-impacting greenhouse gases. New Zealand would thus be the first country in which farmers have to pay for emissions from livestock farming, according to the Ministry of the Environment in Wellington.

New Zealand is home to some 10 million cattle and 26 million sheep...

(Excerpt) Read more at orf.at ...


TOPICS: Australia/New Zealand; Crime/Corruption; Culture/Society; Extended News
KEYWORDS: climate; climatechange; farttax; methane
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To: Nextrush

How about a price on the oxygen politician’s consume?


21 posted on 06/09/2022 8:36:10 AM PDT by mrmeyer (You can't conquer a free man; the most you can do is kill him. Robert Heinlein)
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To: fireman15

The left aren’t happy unless they have the steeple scared to death and self-loathing to,the point that they are willing to,spend all,their money to “fix” a problem thatnis entirely natural, and can’t be “fixed” (not,that it even needs fixing- co2 was over 1000 ppm I. The past, and life thrived just fine, yet we are to beleive that 425 ppm (or whatever it is nkw) is so dangerous that we will all burst into flames any minute nkw


22 posted on 06/09/2022 8:39:24 AM PDT by Bob434 (.)
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To: butlerweave; Nextrush
butlerweave :" Naturally occurring methane is found both below ground and under the seafloor
and is formed by both geological and biological processes.
How do you make it pay ? LOL"

"About 30% of methane emissions are produced by wetlands, including ponds, lakes and rivers.
Another 20% is produced by agriculture, due to a combination of livestock, waste management and rice cultivation.
Activities related to oil, gas, and coal extraction release an additional 30%.
The remainder of methane emissions come from minor sources ..."

News Source:
https://svs.gsfc.nasa.gov/4799

23 posted on 06/09/2022 8:41:20 AM PDT by Tilted Irish Kilt
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To: Tilted Irish Kilt

WEF Young Global Leader, class of 2014 and praised by Bill Gates for locking down NZ; https://wikispooks.com/wiki/Jacinda_Ardern


24 posted on 06/09/2022 8:43:56 AM PDT by Pollard (If there's a question mark in the headline, the answer should always be No.)
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To: BenLurkin
Thanks for posting this. NZ should not be a member of the 5 Eyes group set up after WWII to monitor mainly the ChiComs.


25 posted on 06/09/2022 8:44:49 AM PDT by Grampa Dave (Has anyone, recently, seen a Biden sticker on any vehicle and in particular at/in a gas station!!!)
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To: Bob434

The only measurable result that may be the result of more CO2 in the atmosphere as seen by satellites is a greening of the planet that has taken place. In the past 30 years the Earth has increased its green leaf area by approximately 5 percent, which is roughly five and a half million square kilometers, an increase equivalent to the size of the entire Amazon rain forest.

CO2 is helpful to plant life as part of the photosynthesis process. So, this may have very well have something to do with it. Is more plant life beneficial or detrimental to the planet? It is certainly helpful to people and animals who are dependent on plant life for food.


26 posted on 06/09/2022 8:51:36 AM PDT by fireman15 (Irritating people are the grit from which we fashion our pearl. I provide the grit. You're Welcome.)
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To: Nextrush

Won’t have any affect on the price of food at all.


27 posted on 06/09/2022 9:10:48 AM PDT by pas
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To: Nextrush

Actually a burp tax. Cows release 80% or more of their methane via the mouth. The gas is generated in the last three chambers of the rumen the cows multi chambered stomach. There is little to no gas created in the intestines of the cow. Unlike monogastric animals that have acidic stomachs and anaerobic intestines such as pigs or humans. By the time the digestate leaves the rumen it’s primarily acetic acid, and bacteria proteins which what the cows actually “eats” it’s symbiotic relationship with it’s rumen microfauna has converted cellulose/hemicellulose to acetic acid, some remaining glucose and pentose plus all this a wonderful bacteria that make that possible. Yes as a matter of fact I am a scientist.


28 posted on 06/09/2022 11:12:41 AM PDT by JD_UTDallas ("Veni Vidi Vici" )
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To: Nextrush

Now worries mate, there is a fix for the methane use catalysts to turn it into less evil co2 no really someone already has a device.

https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2022-04-27/methane-mask-for-cows-tire-plastic-trap-win-climate-design-award


29 posted on 06/09/2022 11:14:39 AM PDT by JD_UTDallas ("Veni Vidi Vici" )
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To: JD_UTDallas

You are right the editors of this story called it a “fart tax” in the headline then amended it to say “burp and fart tax”


30 posted on 06/09/2022 11:18:17 AM PDT by Nextrush (FREEDOM IS EVERBODY'S BUSINESS-REMEMBER PASTOR NIEMOLLER)
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To: Nextrush

You have to use the translation prompt to read it in English.<<<<<

Where is the prompt located. I did not see this prompt you speak of.


31 posted on 06/11/2022 7:48:51 AM PDT by Texan4Life
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To: Texan4Life

It is dependent on what system you use. I get it with Microsoft 10 and Google Chrome the translation prompt appears perhaps you use something else.


32 posted on 06/11/2022 7:55:18 AM PDT by Nextrush (FREEDOM IS EVERBODY'S BUSINESS-REMEMBER PASTOR NIEMOLLER)
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To: Nextrush

Next up? SO2.

They will monitor your butt.

5.56mm


33 posted on 06/11/2022 8:20:33 AM PDT by M Kehoe (Quid Pro Joe and the Ho got to go.)
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To: M Kehoe

The Dutch rolled out their draconian plan yesterday and farmers are up in arms. It’s a 70 percent emissions cut plan unrealistic without the outright destruction of livestock.


34 posted on 06/11/2022 8:31:29 AM PDT by Nextrush (FREEDOM IS EVERBODY'S BUSINESS-REMEMBER PASTOR NIEMOLLER)
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To: Nextrush

It is dependent on what system you use. I get it with Microsoft 10 and Google Chrome the translation prompt appears perhaps you use something else.<<<<

Indeed, I do. So, being lazy, I went out and read the Hindustan Times article on it...

https://www.hindustantimes.com/world-news/new-zealand-plans-to-charge-farmers-for-burps-belches-by-36-million-sheep-cows-101654662637742.html


35 posted on 06/11/2022 4:36:59 PM PDT by Texan4Life
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To: Nextrush

So they want to tax my farts?


36 posted on 06/13/2022 11:36:03 AM PDT by cableguymn
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To: cableguymn

They start with livestock and once the livestock are eliminated you will eat something other than meat and if you pass gas after you eat that maybe they will tax it?


37 posted on 06/13/2022 11:46:36 AM PDT by Nextrush (FREEDOM IS EVERBODY'S BUSINESS-REMEMBER PASTOR NIEMOLLER)
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To: Nextrush

I just released some methane.....


38 posted on 06/13/2022 11:53:22 AM PDT by central_va (I won't be reconstructed and I do not give a damn...)
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