Greenpeace yesterday released a study it commissioned on the Government's emissions trading scheme
the current proposal for the structure of the ETS will deliver no significant reductions in greenhouse gas emissions, will act as an impediment to the rapid implementation of less carbon intensive production technologies in the manufacturing industry and will do nothing to slow the destruction of forests to make way for increasingly greenhouse gas intensive forms of dairy farming.
The organisation has joined the long list of groups who have opposed the Government's proposed scheme. There were several damning comments on Morning Report this morning.
In the Dominion Post today Greenpeace are quoted as describing the Government policy as "fatally flawed" and is critical of the timeframe that the Government has set for the bill to be passed.
Greenpeace is represented on the Government's Climate Change Leadership Forum which makes this public criticism more significant.
