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  Green Party of Aotearoa New Zealand People: Jeanette Fitzsimons
Although Jeanette became an activist "later in life", it's clear, in hindsight, the early influences which led her to political involvement.
For Jeanette, her involvement with this new political party was "an incredibly formative experience".
Jeanette and Harry have lived on an organic farm in the Coromandel since 1993.
www.greens.org.nz /people/fitzsimons_j.asp   (2033 words)

  
 Scoop: Agenda Transcript: Jeanette Fitzsimons & Hans Blix
As world leaders prepare to gather in Sydney to discuss climate change at APEC Green's Co-leader Jeanette Fitzsimons is throwing down a gauntlet, she fears that Helen Clark maybe about to betray New Zealand on the issue of climate change.
JEANETTE We do absolutely need the US and Australia who are the highest per capita emitters in the world, and we also need China because although their per capita emissions are very low they're only a fifth of what ours are, they're such a big country that they have to be part of the agreement.
JEANETTE We will have to see what the policies are closer to the time, we will put our policies out really clearly before the election, we will be challenging the other parties to see who can move closest to them, and that’s really all I can say at this stage.
www.scoop.co.nz /stories/HL0709/S00013.htm   (4256 words)

  
  Jeanette Fitzsimons - Definition, explanation
Jeanette Fitzsimons (born 1945) is a New Zealand politician and environmentalist.
Fitzsimons' first entry into politics was as a candidate for the Values Party, an early environmentalist group.
She was its energy spokesperson from 1977 to 1982, and stood as a candidate in the 1978 election and the 1981 election.
www.calsky.com /lexikon/en/txt/j/je/jeanette_fitzsimons.php   (514 words)

  
  Jeanette Fitzsimons - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
Jeanette Mary Fitzsimons (born 1945) is a New Zealand politician and environmentalist.
Fitzsimons' first entry into politics was as a candidate for the Values Party, an early environmentalist group.
She was its energy spokesperson from 1977 to 1982, and stood as a candidate in the 1978 election and the 1981 election.
en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Jeanette_Fitzsimons   (543 words)

  
 Jeanette Fitzsimons: biography and encyclopedia article   (Site not responding. Last check: )
Jeanette Fitzsimons (born 1945) is a New Zealand New Zealand quick summary:
Fitzsimons' first entry into politics was as a candidate for the Values Party Values Party quick summary:
Rod donald is one of the current co-leaders of the green party of aotearoa new zealand along with jeanette fitzsimons....
www.absoluteastronomy.com /encyclopedia/j/je/jeanette_fitzsimons.htm   (1106 words)

  
 Jeanette Fitzsimons   (Site not responding. Last check: )
Jeanette Fitzsimons and her newly elected co-leader, Russel Norman, say the party is neither of the left nor right but represents a new dimension to the...
Green Party co-leader Jeanette Fitzsimons says she is expecting a good turnout from members as they gather to elect a new male co-leader this afternoon.
Claims by Green Party co-leader Jeanette Fitzsimons today about “greenhouse” gases and “global warming” are contradicted by the national climate...
www.wikiverse.org /jeanette-fitzsimons   (584 words)

  
 NationMaster - Encyclopedia: Green Party of Aotearoa New Zealand   (Site not responding. Last check: )
Until his death in 2005 Rod Donald was the party co-leader along with Jeanette Fitzsimons.
The party's co-leader, Jeanette Fitzsimons, also won the electorate seat of Coromandel, believed to be a world-first in a first-past-the-post national electorate seat.
The 1999 New Zealand general election was a nationwide vote to determine the shape of the 46th session of the New Zealand Parliament.
www.nationmaster.com /encyclopedia/Green-Party-of-Aotearoa-New-Zealand   (3114 words)

  
 What You Need to Know About ... Solar Heating - Business - RedOrbit   (Site not responding. Last check: )
Fitzsimons says getting the price down to about $4000 a system would be the goal.
The problem, Fitzsimons says, is householders are unlikely to invest in a system if they are selling and they will not get the payback.
Fitzsimons says the existing Eeca scheme is too small for her liking.
www.redorbit.com /news/business/651381/what_you_need_to_know_about__solar_heating/index.html   (690 words)

  
 Dog Biting Men: A Different Planet
Fitzsimons looked like she would have preferred to be anywhere but there.
In Fitzsimons' words: "The point at which demand outstrips the capacity of the wells to supply is the point at which oil prices rise inexorably and countries at the end of the supply line with little military power are likely to miss out.
Fitzsimons acknowledged that a price increase will occur when she claimed (obscenely) that “the end of cheap oil is coming towards us with the force of a tsunami”.
dogbitingmen.blogspot.com /2005/01/different-planet.html   (1188 words)

  
 ipedia.com: Jeanette Fitzsimons Article   (Site not responding. Last check: )
Jeanette Fitzsimons is a New Zealand politician and environmentalist.
Jeanette Fitzsimons (born 1945) is a New Zealand politician and environmentalist.
When the Green Party joined with several other left-wing parties to form the Alliance, Fitzsimons became co-deputy leader (with Sandra Lee holding the other deputy leader position).
www.ipedia.com /jeanette_fitzsimons.html   (508 words)

  
 Jeanette Fitzsimons talks to David Room about Peak Oil (transcript) | Global Public Media
Jeanette Fitzsimons: Well, Green politics in New Zealand go in most part, back 30 odd years to the formation of the Values Party in 1972.
Jeanette Fitzsimons: We've advocated, for that sort of study to be done, sector by sector.
Jeanette Fitzsimons: It would be really excellent, if we could get international agreement on a way to deal with this collectively.
www.globalpublicmedia.com /transcripts/653   (3638 words)

  
 Fitzsimons Calls for Changes to Farm Practices - Science - RedOrbit
Ms Fitzsimons was in South Canterbury to see for herself the state of the rivers and hear from locals about what they thought the problems were, and said it was a well accepted fact that 95 per cent of low land rivers in South Canterbury were degraded.
Ms Fitzsimons said there were some things the Green Party would like the Government to do but she would not call them bottom lines.
Ms Fitzsimons said changes that had been proposed by Labour to the Resource Management Act had been toned down, for example, and she expected it to be passed in Parliament.
www.redorbit.com /news/science/176064/fitzsimons_calls_for_changes_to_farm_practices/index.html   (671 words)

  
 Green Library: Other Documents
Oral question to the Minister of Agriculture, by Nandor Tanczos MP Organic Farming — Sustainable Inputs
by Jeanette Fitzsimons MP New Zealand’s energy scene would look quite different today without the Greens in Parliament.
House of Representatives, by Jeanette Fitzsimons MP Is he confident that the Government’s investment in the “biggest road-building programme this country has ever seen” has reduced traffic congestion in Auckland?
www.votegreen.org.nz /docs/other   (265 words)

  
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Greens Co-Leader Jeanette Fitzsimons, who issued details of the work today, said it was the first example of genetic engineering of a marine species she had discovered in New Zealand.
Greens co-leader Jeanette Fitzsimons said papers leaked to her showed that not only had the experiment been going on in secret the company had a Wellington PR company advising it how to keep it secret and what not to tell the public.
Fitzsimons said she was horrified at the extent of the secrecy surrounding the trial, and worried about risks to health and the environment.
www.geocities.com /ken_sims_98/nzffa/caption.htm   (13163 words)

  
 031219oil
New Zealand is fast running out of oil, Green Party co-leader Jeanette Fitzsimons MP told an energy workshop in Masterton last month.
Fitzsimons is right to argue that fossil fuels are non-renewable, but she is wrong to assume that technology will remain constant and we will keep on using these resources in the way that we do today.
As a former academic, Fitzsimons must be aware of the facts, yet she refuses to engage with them.
www.nzbr.org.nz /documents/articles/articles-2003/031219oil.htm   (799 words)

  
 AOTEA HARBOUR WEBSITE: Maui's Dolphins - Smallest and Rarest Dolphins in the World
Green co-leader Jeanette Fitzsimons today said protection measures may be required to protect the endangered Hector's dolphin after a professionally filleted carcass was found on a Westport beach.
Ms Fitzsimons said a photograph of the mutilated dolphin had been anonymously forwarded to her by a concerned local and she had taken the issue up with the regional Conservator of the Department of Conservation.
Ms Fitzsimons said that the death of even one Hector's dolphin was very significant as the population was on a knife edge.
www.aoteamoana.co.nz /hectorhui/publish   (4427 words)

  
 GMWatch.org   (Site not responding. Last check: )
Co-leaders Jeanette Fitzsimons and Rod Donald said Helen Clark was trying to create a distraction from the real issue - the end of the moratorium on commercial release of GM organisms on October 29.
Helen Clark fired the first shots on Monday, accusing Ms Fitzsimons of colluding with National MP Nick Smith on the Corngate inquiry committee she chairs to stir up dust before the moratorium ends.
On Monday, Helen Clark flayed Ms Fitzsimons' handling of the inquiry and yesterday said that if Ms Fitzsimons could "keep the circus going" she would, and asked how her chairmanship could be fair when she had been prepared to pull a Labour Government down over GM in May last year.
www.gmwatch.org /archive2.asp?arcid=1384   (706 words)

  
 Monsanto - The Food Monster
Green Party Co-Leader Jeanette Fitzsimons said the key AgResearch request in the document was: "A suggested solution is for the [Hazardous Substances and New Organisms] Act to be amended to require public notification only at the time when an application is made for public release of a genetically modified organism".
Jeanette Fitzsimons said she was concerned that government agencies were continuing to sign up new contracts with Communications Trumps.
Green Co-Leader Jeanette Fitzsimons, in a statement preceding her party's annual conference in Wellington this weekend, said the issue was strongly linked to other major areas of public concern.
nwo-warning.tripod.com /monsanto.htm   (6463 words)

  
 Jeanette Fitzsimons mulls change - 23 Oct 2006 - NZ Herald: New Zealand National news
Green co-leader Jeanette Fitzsimons has raised the prospect of standing down as leader, saying she will decide next year whether to continue as leader into the 2008 election.
Jeanette Fitzsimons, who has been an MP for 10 years, said she was in good health and still enjoying her job.
Jeanette Fitzsimons indicated that they had worked out a transition plan for a new leadership.
www.nzherald.co.nz /section/story.cfm?c_id=1&objectid=10407144   (324 words)

  
 Labelling   (Site not responding. Last check: )
PAUL SWAIN (Minister of Commerce): The Commerce Commission investigated the claim of Abbot Laboratories that its Isomil RTF formula was "The first choice of doctors for common feeding problems such as fussiness, gas and spit-up" and advised that it was at risk of breaching section 13E of the Fair Trading Act.
Jeanette Fitzsimons: What steps are taken and by whom, to monitor voluntary settlements made to head off Commerce Commission determinations, given the Isomil soy formula with the offending label was still on sale in a Wellington supermarket more than a month after that agreement was reached?
Jeanette Fitzsimons: Is the Minister concerned that there is not just a technical breach, because in many countries doctors have advised that soy milk not be the principal infant food, because of possible hormone disruption from high levels of estrogens in soy?
www.soyonlineservice.co.nz /02labelling.htm   (469 words)

  
 GE bottom line for support of next Govt - Greens
Ms Fitzsimons said if a successful coalition agreement could not be achieved, the Greens could still support Labour forming a Government because the moratorium will be in place.
Ms Fitzsimons and the Green MPs left the House without voting after her speech during the third reading of the Hazardous Substances and New Organisms (Genetically Modified Organisms) Amendment Bill.
Ms Fitzsimons said today’s announcement does not affect the Green Party giving supply and confidence to the Government during this election term, as the moratorium is in place until after the election.
ngin.tripod.com /230502b.htm   (1784 words)

  
 The Greening Of NZ
Jeanette Fitzsimons's victory in the Coromandel electorate has added three votes to the Centre-Left's parliamentary majority.
Ms Fitzsimons and co-leader Rod Donald have pledged to support the new Government on confidence and supply votes, but on other issues the Greens will vote according to their policy.
Here are some of their main platforms: Taxes: The tax system should be recast to promote jobs and the more efficient use of resources.
www.mapinc.org /drugnews/v99/n1332/a01.html?397   (872 words)

  
 Checkbiotech.org   (Site not responding. Last check: )
Ms Fitzsimons asked why the Government had signed the protocol if it now intended to undermine the treaty by suggesting rules on liability might not be necessary.
Ms Fitzsimons queried whether Ms Hobbs' comments were a code for a government plan for New Zealand to become a producer and exporter of GE foods but Ms Hobbs said that was wrong.
"Jeanette Fitzsimons has used as the basis for her own comments the incorrect statements of a Malaysian delegate about New Zealand's stance at the conference," Ms Hobbs said.
www.checkbiotech.org /root/index.cfm?fuseaction=news&doc_id=10460&star   (602 words)

  
 NORML New Zealand - NORML activist Nandor Tanczos elected as New Zealand's first Rasta MP
"The law is an ass and the sooner we change it the better." Jeanette Fitzsimons says: "I don't have a problem with the occasional breaking of this particular law." We could expect better from those with a term in the legislature behind them.
The Greens co-leaders, Jeanette Fitzsimons and Rod Donald, do not have a problem with one of their MPs defying the law.
Jeanette Fitzsimons said she considered Mr Tanczos a responsible person, saying he was simply flouting a law that tens of thousands, if not hundreds of thousands, ignored.
www.norml.org.nz /News/nandor_elected.htm   (3199 words)

  
 Sir Humphrey's: Exclusive Brethren vs The Greens
Jeanette Fitzsimons, Greens Co-Leader also referred to the brochure as 50% outright lies and 50% gross exaggerations.
For Jeanette to brand their brochure a "campaign of lies", "half full" of "outright lies" is in itself, a gross exaggeration.
Of the other 7 points that Jeanette labelled "outright lies", I agreed with her on one of those points.
sirhumphreys.blogspot.com /2005/09/exclusive-brethren-vs-greens.html   (3409 words)

  
 How high will fees go before Kiwis are grounded? - New Zealand news on Stuff.co.nz
LOW ON GAS: Green Party co-leader Jeanette Fitzsimons wants Kiwis to consider flying less, in an effort to conserve the world's fuel supplies and slow the damage done to the environment by airplanes.
Green co-leader Jeanette Fitzsimons - just back from a trip to Europe, her first in 30 years - wants us to fly less and help save the world.
Fitzsimons says we need to force change by requiring the airlines to cap their greenhouse gas emissions.
www.stuff.co.nz /stuff/0,2106,3858475a7693,00.html   (1932 words)

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