NZ Forest Owners' Association - Latest News [Page 9]
Kyoto officials face forest lock-out
Thursday, 30 June 2005, 9:56 am | NZ Forest Owners' Association
The NZ Forest Owners Association is suggesting to its members that they refuse entry to government officials intending to set up carbon monitoring plots in private forests. More >>
Forest owners still willing to talk to government
Friday, 17 June 2005, 3:26 pm | NZ Forest Owners' Association
Their carbon credits have been nationalised and investment in new plantings has almost dried up. But forest owners are still willing to talk to the government they say is causing their industry so much harm. More >>
Hodgson mischievous say forest owners
Monday, 13 June 2005, 6:22 pm | NZ Forest Owners' Association
Climate change minister Pete Hodgson is being mischievous in his defence of his government’s disastrous climate change policies, says the Forest Owners Association. More >>
Disastrous Kyoto policies must change
Monday, 13 June 2005, 10:22 am | NZ Forest Owners' Association
If New Zealand is to meet its Kyoto targets, the government must stop encouraging land owners to replace trees with cows, says the Forest Owners Association. More >>
Kyoto disaster predicted
Thursday, 9 June 2005, 2:23 pm | NZ Forest Owners' Association
New Zealand is highly likely to miss its Kyoto targets, at great cost to taxpayers and consumers, says the Forest Owners Association. More >>
Kyoto disaster predicted
Thursday, 9 June 2005, 2:14 pm | NZ Forest Owners' Association
New Zealand is highly likely to miss its Kyoto targets, at great cost to taxpayers and consumers, says the Forest Owners Association. In the last three years there has been a dramatic decline in new forest plantings, says association president Peter ... More >>
Forest growers adopt national standard
Wednesday, 8 June 2005, 10:00 am | NZ Forest Owners' Association
Forest growers adopt national standard After five years of negotiation, the New Zealand forest industry has a national standard for sustainable plantation forest management. More >>
Forest Owners Appoint Chief Executive
Monday, 30 May 2005, 10:22 am | NZ Forest Owners' Association
For more information, please contact NZFOA president Peter Berg, Tel 09 309 5049, or 0274 421 291 The President of the NZ Forest Owners Association, Peter Berg, today announced that Mr David S Rhodes has been appointed to the position of Chief Executive ... More >>
World Endorsement Sought For NZ Plantations
Monday, 7 March 2005, 5:31 pm | NZ Forest Owners' Association
New Zealand is seeking international confirmation of the environmental standards achieved in its radiata pine plantations. More >>
Access in plantation forests poses big risks
Wednesday, 22 December 2004, 5:01 pm | NZ Forest Owners' Association
The NZ Forest Owners Association says the government's walking access proposals are an improvement on earlier suggestions, but major concerns still remain. More >>
Ernslaw investment praised by industry
Tuesday, 12 October 2004, 9:54 am | NZ Forest Owners' Association
The purchase of the Prime Sawmill in Gisborne by Malaysian-owned forestry company Ernslaw One has been praised by the NZ Forest Owners Association. More >>
Forest owners urged to claim for storm damage
Tuesday, 21 September 2004, 2:51 pm | NZ Forest Owners' Association
Forest owners in the southern North Island who suffered storm and flood-damage in February are urged to apply for government assistance so that repair and replanting can be carried out as soon as possible. More >>
Forest owners praise Government roading initiative
Monday, 20 September 2004, 10:27 am | NZ Forest Owners' Association
Forest owners say a scheme set up by the government in 2002 to fund the development of roads in major forest-growing regions is working well. More >>
Forest Owners Slam Triple-Dipping Councils
Friday, 3 September 2004, 3:21 pm | NZ Forest Owners' Association
District councils have been criticised for double and triple-dipping on the roading rates paid by forest owners. More >>
RMA review could unlock forest potential
Thursday, 1 April 2004, 9:17 am | NZ Forest Owners' Association
Forest owners hope the government’s Resource Management Act review will lead to a lowering of barriers to investment in wood processing. More >>
BIA decision flawed
Tuesday, 23 December 2003, 1:59 pm | NZ Forest Owners' Association
“The Building Industry Authority’s decision on the use of timber in house framing is one step forward, but is still flawed in several respects,” says Rob McLagan, chief executive of the NZ Forest Owners Association. More >>
Councils double-dip for forest roading
Wednesday, 17 December 2003, 9:40 am | NZ Forest Owners' Association
An independent report lends weight to claims by forest owners that they are being unfairly singled out by district councils to pay for roading upgrades. More >>
Power line company to maintain transmission routes
Thursday, 20 November 2003, 8:35 am | NZ Forest Owners' Association
The NZ Forest Owners Association has welcomed assurances by Transpower that property easements, to allow line construction and maintenance, are needed where power lines cross private land. More >>
Commodity levy for forest owners?
Tuesday, 14 October 2003, 3:12 pm | NZ Forest Owners' Association
Forest owners may be asked to pay a commodity levy to fund research and other activities which benefit the whole sector. More >>
Brainpower will drive forestry’s future
Tuesday, 16 September 2003, 8:30 am | NZ Forest Owners' Association
Look increasingly to the land-based industries to provide the real impetus for economic growth and for the high-tech innovation of the future, say forest owners. More >>