Petition delivered

Nearly 100,000 people have signed a Groundswell NZ petition calling on the Government to stop its emissions tax on agriculture. The group’s cofounders, Laurie Paterson and Bryce McKenzie, delivered the petition by tractor to Parliament yesterday morning. It was received by Associate Minister of Agriculture Meka Whaitiri and Deputy Leader of the House Kieran McAnulty. The signatures were collected by the group after the Government released its draft agricultural emissions pricing proposal, He Waka Eke Noa, which would tax farmers for the emissions created on their farms.