New Zealand kicked out "gas emitting" leftist govt?

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WELLINGTON, New Zealand—WELLINGTON, New Zealand -- New Zealanders chose a wealthy, conservative former financier Saturday to help navigate the country through the global financial meltdown, handing long-serving left-wing Prime Minister Helen Clark a crushing election defeat.

John Key, the 47-year-old leader of the conservative National Party, swept easily to power in this South Pacific country of 4.1 million people, ousting Clark's Labour Party after nine years in office.

"Today, New Zealand has spoken, in their hundreds of thousands, they have voted for change," Key told supporters at a packed victory celebration in the country's largest city, Auckland.
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In a country where the environment is a mainstream political issue, Key has vowed to wind back Clark's greenhouse gas emission trading scheme to protect businesses from financial losses, and to reduce red tape he says entangle important dam projects.

http://www.boston.com/news/world/asia/articles/2008/11/08/new_zealand_leader_concedes_defeat_in_election/?rss_id=Boston.com+--+Latest+news

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[sandbagger]

add NZ to the list of countries rejecting liberals. France, Germany, England, Canada, most of Eastern Europe, and even Sweden is showing some shift.

[Jim Farrell Tiler]

the BIG problem with the previous gummnt was the green party had too much say and were bringing in ridiculous things like banning normal light bulbs in favour of power saver ones that give off poor light, reducing the flow in shower heads to make people use less water in showers, crap like that. New Zealand has huge coal resources and we cant use them but can sell coal to china. Plus they were in long enough 9 years time for a change

[ddmoit]

Here in the States, we're close to being told which kind of light bulbs we can and cannot use. We're already told how much water our toilets and shower heads can use. (I have a well. How am I free if I cannot use my own resources as I see fit?)

New Zealand has huge coal resources and we cant use them but can sell coal to china.I thought we were a global village. What difference does it make if New Zealand coal is burned in New Zealand or China? :rolleyes:

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Jim,
as pointed out, we have the same environmental extremism here.
Heck, "our" president elect stated if anyone builds a coal power plant, his trade in cap emissions program will bankrupt them.

I guess this is how his "change" is going to "fight for the middle class". :lol1:

I thought we were a global village. What difference does it make if New Zealand coal is burned in New Zealand or China?
:D
"The World Community" is only there so we can transfer our wealth to them, ya know, "be fair".
Go to the UN web page and look under their "programs". It's totally disgusting all the wealth transfer that bureaucracy exists for. Well, that and their outright fraud and graft.

[MudMaker]

things like banning normal light bulbs in favour of power saver ones that give off poor light,

and... present a disposal problem... :)