Campaign Against Foreign Control of Aotearoa: WHO OWNS NEW ZEALAND?

Foreign direct investment (ownership of companies) in New Zealand increased from $9.7 billion in 1990 to $46.6 billion in 1996 - an increase of over 450%.

The biggest foreign owners of New Zealand are: America, Australia, Britain, Singapore, Europe, Canada, Hong Kong, Japan.

Transnational corporations (TNCs) [like Telecom] are making massive profits out of New Zealand. TNC profits can truly be called New Zealand's biggest invisible export and have a major deletrious effect on our balance of payments.

*** Unruly El Nino, scourge of crops, markets, revives (N.Z. affected, but not mentioned).

El Nino, an abnormal tropical Pacific Ocean weather pattern which causes devastating droughts and floods, could become the "climate event of the century" and surpass its devastating 1982-83 episode, scientists said Wednesday. Jagadish Shukla, head of the Washington-based Institute of Global Environment and Society, told a scientific gathering in Geneva that the phenomenon, which disrupts global rainfall and wind patterns, caused sea surface temperatures in July, in the eastern tropic Pacific, to exceed "all previous records."

*** El Nino threatens world weather turmoil

It has already been dubbed the climate event of the century, unleashing drought, floods and snowstorms, and experts say it is likely to get worse over the next few months. The El Nino phenomenon that brews up in the southern Pacific every three to five years is showing signs of turning the world's weather upside down again. Past El Ninos have unleashed natural disasters around the world. This year the phenomenon is back and scientists say it is shaping up to be the strongest on record, likely to bring more disasters.

From: Philippa_Stevenson@wilsonandhorton.co.nz
To: davd@oocities.com
Date: Sun, 7 Sep 1997 16:40:36 +1200

Finding the answer was a challenge for scientists seeking to measure the volume of harmful methane gas belched out by the 47 million (or so) sheep in New Zealand.

Following initial work by scientists from AgResearch and the National Institute for Water and Atmosphere, researchers from Landcare and HortResearch stocked three Manawatu paddocks at 20 sheep a hectare. For two weeks in July they used high tech meteorological gear to sniff out every whiff of methane that gusted their way.
Manawatu was chosen because it was flat, had fresh winds off the sea, and because there was little else that would contribute methane to the atmosphere.

Murray Judd of HortResearch, said the scientists were not interested in flatulence but in what results from inefficient digestion - burps.? A sonic anemometer measured wind speed and turbulence 10 times a second. A gas chromatograph sampled concentrations of methane and temperature at two heights.

So, if anyone asks how much methane three paddocks of sheep stocked at 20 per hectare give off the answer is 0.5 micrograms per square meter per second.

And while the question of belching and burping sheep may sound like a trivial pursuit, nothing could be further from the truth.
New Zealand is unique among developed countries in that methane emission outweighs carbon dioxide in importance.
Ruminant livestock are responsible for 90 percent of that methane, with sheep accounting for more than half. The gas is about 60 times more damaging to the ozone layer than carbon dioxide.

Full Global-Warming article (© Associated Press)

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Date: Tuesday, 30 September 1997       Time: 12:17 pm NZT

The agreement concluded last week is presently before the Iwi for approval.

Highly praising the deal, Sir Geoffrey told Radio New Zealand's Kim Hill the agreement showed a willingness by the government, to share power with Ngai Tahu in certain places in relation to certain things.

The legislation created new instruments of legal relations never seen before in New Zealand, and was a tribute to the Ngai Tahu negotiators, he said.

govt.FAQs on Ngai Tahu Settlement offer

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Date: Tue, 30 Sep 1997 17:56:35 MDT

West Coast Edition for Tuesday, September 30, 1997 

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*** Leading scientists call for global warming treaty

Days before a White House conference to fight global warming, 1,500
scientists from around the world Tuesday urged immediate action to
curb man-made climate changes. "Let there be no doubt about the
conclusion of the scientific community: the threat of global warming
is very real and action is needed immediately," Nobel laureate Henry
Kendall said at a conference on global warming. The scientists,
including 98 Nobel laureates, urged world leaders to adopt a strong
treaty to fight emissions of carbon that are changing the climate.
Story at http://www.infobeat.com/stories/cgi/story.cgi?id=5205793-4ca


*** Australia an outcast on greenhouse target - WWF

Australia risked becoming an "outcast" at the Kyoto climate change
summit in December over its refusal to cut greenhouse gas emissions,
the World Wide Fund for Nature (WWF) said Tuesday. Australia's
argument that binding uniform cuts in carbon dioxide emissions would
cost thousands of jobs and risk billions of dollars was not credible
and would sideline Australia in Kyoto, the WWF said. Australia could
easily meet the target by reducing bush burn-off. It clears some
600,000 hectares (1.48 million acres) of native vegetation annually.
Story at http://www.infobeat.com/stories/cgi/story.cgi?id=5198058-31a

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