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Offset Scheme Could Address Ngai Tahu Concerns
Wednesday, 3 September 2008, 11:10 am | Flexible Land Use Alliance
The Flexible Land Use Alliance says that including a Forestry Offset Scheme in the Emissions Trading Scheme (ETS) legislation could significantly address Te Runanga o Ngai Tahu's concerns about the impact of the scheme on its land values and avoid ... More >>
Any ETS Scheme Must Include Forestry Offsetting
Monday, 25 August 2008, 2:08 pm | Flexible Land Use Alliance
The Flexible Land Use Alliance has advised the Green and New Zealand First parties, whose votes in Parliament will decide whether the Emissions Trading Scheme (ETS) becomes law, that they should not support any ETS that does not include a Forestry ... More >>
Cullen Comments On Trans-Tasman Scheme Welcomed
Friday, 18 July 2008, 3:43 pm | Flexible Land Use Alliance
The Flexible Land Use Alliance has welcomed reported comments by New Zealand Finance Minister Michael Cullen and Australian Treasurer Wayne Swan that the New Zealand and Australian Emissions Trading Schemes (ETSs) will be made compatible over time. More >>
Alliance Welcomes Positive Movement
Wednesday, 18 June 2008, 9:48 am | Flexible Land Use Alliance
The Flexible Land Use Alliance has welcomed moves by the Finance & Expenditure Select Committee to include provisions for a Forestry Offset Scheme in the Climate Change (Emissions Trading and Renewable Preference) Bill and is urging Parliament as a whole ... More >>
Deforestation Risk Overstated
Tuesday, 20 May 2008, 10:19 am | Flexible Land Use Alliance
Fears that a temporary delay in the passage of the Climate Change (Emissions Trading and Renewable Preference) Bill could lead to significant deforestation are unfounded, the Flexible Land Use Alliance said today. More >>
Key Points of Presentation to Select Committee
Wednesday, 14 May 2008, 10:26 am | Flexible Land Use Alliance
The Government’s announcements in September 2007 of its intention to impose massive retrospective liabilities on those who harvest their pre-1990 forests and convert to sheep, beef, dairy, tourism, horticulture, grapes or any other use destroyed as ... More >>
Select Committee Presentation
Wednesday, 14 May 2008, 9:36 am | Flexible Land Use Alliance
The Flexible Land Use Alliance will present to the Finance & Expenditure Select Committee at 10.00 am on Wednesday 14 May, in Select Committee Room 2, Bowen House, Parliament Buildings, Wellington on the Climate Change (Emissions Trading and Renewable ... More >>
Professor Lewis Evans Appointed To Review Work
Wednesday, 2 April 2008, 3:05 pm | Flexible Land Use Alliance
The Flexible Land Use Alliance announced today the appointment of Professor Lewis Evans to review a draft report by the University of Waikato and Covec on proposed changes to the forestry components of the Climate Change (Emissions Trading and Renewable ... More >>
Parliamentary Majority for Forest Offsetting
Monday, 17 March 2008, 4:13 pm | Flexible Land Use Alliance
The National Party's announcement today that it will pursue a Forestry Offset Scheme through the parliamentary process means there is now an overwhelming majority for the measure on both the Finance & Expenditure Select Committee and in Parliament ... More >>
Progress Likely on Pre-1990 Forestry Policy
Monday, 10 March 2008, 9:36 am | Flexible Land Use Alliance
The Flexible Land Use Alliance says progress is likely on the difficult issue of policy for pre-1990 forests under the planned Emissions Trading Scheme (ETS). More >>
Green: Opening Statement
Thursday, 28 February 2008, 2:51 pm | Flexible Land Use Alliance
Opening Statement Ross Green, Spokesman Press Conference 2pm, Thursday 28 February Kensington Swan, Wellington More >>
Offset Scheme Not Full Answer to Land Values Losse
Thursday, 28 February 2008, 2:50 pm | Flexible Land Use Alliance
The Flexible Land Use Alliance is warning that the Forestry Offset Scheme it is promoting to policymakers is not the complete answer to the destruction in land values that would occur were forests planted prior to 1 January 1990 included in the proposed ... More >>
Scheme Will Boost Investment in Eroding Lands
Thursday, 28 February 2008, 2:49 pm | Flexible Land Use Alliance
The Forestry Offset Scheme, proposed by the Flexible Land Use Alliance today, will see investors buying and foresting some of the more than 800,000 hectares of seriously eroding land found in New Zealand’s high country. More >>
Retrospective Taxation Chills Investor Sentiment
Thursday, 28 February 2008, 2:48 pm | Flexible Land Use Alliance
The prospect of the Government imposing massive retrospective liabilities on owners of land planted in forestry before 1 January 1990 who decide to change the use of their land risks having a chilling effect on investor sentiment throughout the economy, ... More >>
New Land Use Alliance Focussed on Planting Eroding
Thursday, 28 February 2008, 2:46 pm | Flexible Land Use Alliance
Some of the country’s largest exporting companies have joined forces to seek changes to the proposed Emissions Trading Scheme (ETS) that they say will encourage the planting of more than 800,000 hectares of seriously eroding hill country land. More >>
