In some ways, there may be less than meets the eye to the Government announcement yesterday that the He Waka Eke Noa proposal for farmers to pay for greenhouse gas emissions has been scrapped. The spectre of farmers still having to pay at some point in the future remains. That, however, hasn’t stopped Greenpeace from crying “catastrophe” and ACT claiming victory. And interestingly, though the Government is promising to remove agriculture from th…
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