In a media release yesterday (published on Scoop and presumably elsewhere) 
Greenpeace climate campaigner, Simon Boxer said, in an attempt to link Owen 
McShane to a posting by Dennis Avery on the Heartland Institute webpage:

"The incident comes just as a notorious New Zealand sceptic, linked to the

Heartland Institute, puts his case to the Finance and Expenditure Select

Committee on the Government's emissions trading scheme.

"Owen McShane, who was paid by Heartland to speak at their conference in New

York in March, gave evidence to the Committee this morning that climate change

is a hoax," said Boxer. "If this latest incident is any indication of the

veracity of sceptics' case, let's hope the Select Committee paid no heed to his

submission."

"This statement makes claims which are false and misleading," says Owen McShane, 
director of the Centre for Resource Management Studies. 

"My evidence to the Finance and Expenditure Select Committee made no claim that 
climate change is a hoax. 

My evidence focused on the Emissions Trading Scheme and related topics. "Two 
members of Greenpeace made their submission immediately after mine, and the two 
members were present throughout my own submission, so they know this claim is 
untrue. But Mr Boxer makes the claim anyhow,"  said Mr McShane.

"It is is true that the Heartland Institute paid my airfare to present a paper 
on the impact of climate change policies on urban planning related matters. This 
is normal practice. If this means I am "linked to the Heartland Institute" I am 
linked to a huge number of organisations around the world and throughout New 
Zealand. I have been giving papers at international conferences since the early 
eighties when I was the only person from the southern hemisphere to give a paper 
to "Biotech '82" the first international conference on genetic engineering. Next 
Tuesday, I leave for Houston,  to give a paper on "Integrated land use and 
transport" policies. I must be the most "linked" person in New Zealand," he says.

"The Centre expects those organisations who have published these false and 
misleading claims to publish a retraction or this response," he concludes.

The Centre's oral submission focused on why the Emissions Trading Scheme was 
doomed to fail, and how so many of the predictions, made in Centre's original 
submission in February, had already come true.

Readers can judge for themselves the accuracy of the Greenpeace claims:

to read speech notes for appearance and our submission itself, see 

 http://rmastudies.org.nz/index.php/issues/42-climate-change

 or the PDF of the submission: (more)