3 November 2014
Logging is in the blood of Rex Kelly's family. The organiser of the Logging Weekend at Pigeon Valley Steam Museum proudly watched as a team including one son and a granddaughter won Saturday's 'King of the Forest' Chockerman Race while another grandson was among the team that ran second.
31 October 2014
WorkSafe NZ says the Independent Forestry Safety Review has clearly identified the problems facing an industry in which ten workers were killed last year.
31 October 2014
The CTU has welcomed the release of the independent forestry safety review panel findings. "These recommendations must be implemented to ensure that everything possible is done to make forestry safer." CTU President, Helen Kelly said.
31 October 2014
Workplace Relations and Safety Minister Michael Woodhouse welcomed the recommendations of the Independent Forestry Safety Review and outlined the government's initial response.
31 October 2014
The government must adopt a zero tolerance approach to workplace accidents in the forestry sector to stop people being killed, Labour's forestry spokesperson Chris Hipkins says.
17 October 2014
Some of the tight scheduling pressures around log exports for ports and log marshalling companies have been eased, thanks to research that shows that fumigated logs are not reinfested by pests as quickly as once thought.
10 October 2014
The Stump to Pump PGP programme, led by commercial partners Norske Skog Tasman and Z Energy, has concluded that it is technically feasible to produce transport biofuels from radiata pine forest waste. The technology involved has not been disclosed and is confidential to the programme partners.
2 October 2014
Many of the audience shed tears as Wiremu Edmonds spoke about the loss of his son at the Federation of Maori Authorities' annual meeting on Saturday. Robert Epapara, the eldest of Mr Edmonds' five children, was killed in a forestry accident near Lake Rotoiti on March 26 last year.
1 October 2014
Maori forest owners from throughout Northland will meet in Moerewa on Friday to discuss how they might work more closely together to get the best for their people out of their forest resources
