The ETS ‘fiasco’ has sent NZ’s forestry crop backwards, foresters tell Rob Tipa. The Farm Forestry Association’s membership has halved since the ETS scheme collapsed, Dean Satchell says Whatever happened to the emissions trading scheme? When the ETS was introduced in 2008 it was sold to the New Zealand public as the country […]
The National Govt is planning to over-ride current district council rules forbidding Genetically Modified Organisms (GMOs) or Genetic Engineering (GE) being brought into Northland. It intends via the Ministry for Primary Industries to change forestry regulations to allow GE trees anywhere in NZ and over-ride NZ councils precautionary and prohibitive GE policies in local plans. […]
** Conflict of interest for new EPA head ———————————————————— The new head of the Environmental Protection Agency has been an open advocate of genetic engineering, and therefore has a conflict of interest when it comes to looking after the environment, says the Soil & Health Association. Dr Allan Freeth starts his role […]
PF Olsen Limited Peter Clark Land is one of the cornerstones of wealth generation in both New Zealand and Australia. The flexibility to change land use in response to market signals has been historically important in both countries. From time to time politicians have sought to tilt the playing field in favour of a particular […]