New Zealand farmers set for right-wing protest vote over climate change policies

A flirtation with the New Zealand Labour Party in the 2020 election by rural voters, some for the first time in decades, has ended due to environmental policies such as planting pine forests on grazing land and taxing livestock methane burps.

“Rural New Zealanders and farmers in particular have found things really difficult for the last six year and particularly the last three years when there has been a whole raft of regulations come in,” said McKenzie, who co-founded rural protest group Groundswell. A Taxpayers' Union–Curia opinion poll in early September found that 58 per cent of rural voters – those living in settlements of less than 1,000 people – intended to vote National or ACT.New Zealand has been at the forefront of pushing through environmental changes to its agricultural sector, one of its biggest industries and one which produces around 50 per cent of the country's emissions.

If elected, National has promised to delay the introduction of any tax until at the latest 2030 and ACT will only introduce a tax when New Zealand’s main trading partners do.

Source: Energy Industry News (energyindustrynews.net)

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