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The amended Emissions Trading Scheme could be passed by
Wednesday evening.
The controversial bill has again come under more fire as
parliament sits under urgency, but the government, with the support
of the Maori Party, has the numbers to get it through.
Labour leader Phil Goff claims the deal allowing Maori to use
Department of Conservation land for forestry only benefits the
Maori elite.
And he says the government did not get legal endorsement for its
bill.
Goff told Breakfast the government needed to buy off the Maori Party to get a two-vote majority for the legislation.
Labour's Climate Change Issues spokesman Charles Chauvel told MPs on Tuesday the bill is fundamentally flawed and the process shambolic.
He says it will make New Zealanders poorer, the economy weaker and New Zealand's emissions higher.
Chauvel says if parliament passes the bill in anything like it's current form the priority for Labour will be its repeal.
But Climate Change Issues Minister Nick Smith told the House that if the bill is not passed, Labour's scheme will come into effect on January 1.
He says that would increase power prices by 10%, cost industry $400 million a year and ultimately cost jobs.
