Tim Dower: He Waka Eke Noa isn't perfect, but it's a stake in the ground

Early Edition with Ryan Bridge · Jun 8, 2022 · 1m

There's a sense of if you can't beat them join them about this He Waka Eke Noa scenario.

Farmers don't like it much, but they do know they're not going to be excused from facing up to agricultural emissions forever.

Sooner or later, regulation is coming, so it makes sense to be proactive and try to influence things as much as you can.

The alternative is to have some bureaucrat in Wellington who doesn't even own gumboots conjure up something crazy that'll cost a fortune, and won't make any difference.

The bare bones of this system is that every farm that's GST registered and has more than 550…