14 November 2022
EDS claims unfounded and should know better
The President of the Forest Owners Association says that once again the commercial forest industry is having to point to its science based environmental credentials to organisations such as the Environmental Defence Society which Grant Dodson says should know better.
12 October 2022
Foresters ask James Shaw if the government wants more trees or not
Foresters are saying a suggestion by Climate Change Minister James Shaw to centralise buying carbon credits in central government, and decoupling the Emissions Trading Scheme from forestry, is a message that trees are irrelevant to fighting climate change.
6 October 2022
Biogenic methane issue ‘alarming’ but forestry helps
The Forest Owners Association says the highlighting of biogenic methane discharges, in a report just issued by the Parliamentary Commissioner for the Environment, is alarming and urgently calls for forest planting solutions to buy New Zealand time.
13 September 2022
Wooden cities key to cutting worldwide carbon emissions to combat climate change.
The Forest Owners Association President is predicting massive increases in the worldwide demand for engineered timber construction.
1 September 2022
Forestry Transformation Plan could be ‘game changer’ for New Zealand economy and for combating climate change
The Forest Owners Association says the Forestry and Wood Processing Industry Transformation Plan has the potential to drive New Zealand’s biggest step yet to increase domestic value-add to forest products.
30 June 2022
Federated Farmers struggling with both the law and arithmetic
The Forest Owners Association says Federated Farmers have got their sums wrong on the rate of forest planting and don’t understand the law on overseas investment either.
2 March 2022
The Forest Owners Association says highly qualified reservations in the latest International Panel on Climate Change report, do not back anthropologist Anne Salmond’s claims that New Zealand should switch exclusively to native trees for its carbon sequestration offsets.
12 April 2022
The Forest Owners Association wants a delegation of government ministers to urgently go to India to try to re-open the export log market there, following the New Zealand Environmental Protection Authority approval for EDN fumigation of export log stacks.
28 April 2022
Please refer to the EDN decision FAQ document provided by STIMBR for answers to common queries relating to the EPA’s 5 April 2022 decision approving EDN for use in NZ.
