Coming Clean - New Zealand's Emissions Trading Scheme Explained

There is a new video available on-line explaining the NZ Emissions Trading Scheme.

Its called Coming Clean - New Zealand's Emissions Trading Scheme Explained and the film maker is Lindsay Horner.

Its very good. It hammers the key points well;

• that the NZETS lacks the real cap on greenhouse gas emissions that is an essential part of a textbook 'cap-and-trade' scheme.
• that relying on post-1990 forestry carbon credits to match growth in GHGs since 1990 is the same as borrowing on a credit card, as the forestry carbon credits will have to be surrendered when the forests are eventually logged.

Coming Clean - New Zealand's Emissions Trading Scheme Explained from Lindsay Horner on Vimeo.

PCE Jan Wright mining still an issue

Dr Jan Wright, the Parliamentary Commissioner for the Environment explains that mining within the conservation estate is still a live political issue, in spite of the Government withdrawing the proposal to allow more mining in the Schedule 4 areas (40% of the total).



Wright is against the Minister of Energy having any role in granting access to the conservation estate for mining.

Earthquake surface flooding

Here is a Youtube video of surface flooding probably caused by liquefaction immediately after the Christchurch earthquake.

Fifteen years warning of the Christchurch earthquake

Have a look at this July 1996 'Inside New Zealand' TV3 documentary Earthquakes.

Don't tell me there were no warnings.

No doubt the property developers and their lawyers and consultants decried the documentary as alarmist as they applied for subdivision consents in Bexley.



Also mentioned in this Herald article Christchurch will shake like a leaf'

Yardbirds Train Kept a Rolling

I seems to have watched/listened to this several times...

Robins primus 71 part 2

Here is Robin's Robins Primus 71 stove, with the stand and the billy/container.

Here is a photo of just the stove.

Here is the Primus stamp on the base of the stove.

The stove in the billy (pot) stand.

Here is the underside of the base of the stove with the 'AU' date stamp clearly visible. As we know, according to the Primus Date Chart, 'AU' means Robin's stove is the 1955 model.

Today I lit it, boiled some water and made a small plunger of coffee. As I sipped I raised my mug in salute to Robin.

Robins Primus 71 stove

Robin's tramping and climbing stove is a 1955 Swedish Primus 71E.

The website "Classic Camp Stoves" has a gallery of Primus 71 stoves.

Robin's Primus 71E stove set includes a cylinder-shaped stand and a pot that doubles as a container for the stove. That is in distinction to the Primus 71 or 71L stoves that have a square 'tea caddy' shaped stand and container but without a pot.

It still works. I started it yesterday. Robin bought it new in the 1950s in Christchurch when he was very actively mountaineering with the Canterbury Mountaineering Club (CMC).

I have fond memories of the stove's roaring sound as it cooked our "de-hi" curry on many a tramp with Robin in the 1970s and 1980s.

Here is a video of lighting a Primus 71.

Here is a You Tube instructional video, helpfully in Swedish, on how to light a Primus 71.

This is a gallery about Primus 71 stoves.

Primus stoves can be dated via a stamp on the base. Robin's stove is stamped 'AU' on the bottom, which confirms 1955.

There are more shiny primus photos at Google. Are they not beautiful?