![]() Southern Biomass Trading Floor opens for domestic and international trading on 1st October 2005. Source: NZTE Market Report, September (Comment on story Southern Biomass Trading Floor opens for business The licence to harvest the wood will only progress following consultation with local First Nations groups. The province provided special beetle salvage licences for tender, to try and combat the problem facing vast tracts of the forest resource, and the new company was the only bidder for the tender. The project will cost C$110 million and will create over 600 jobs. The new venture will build four wood pellet plants in the BC interior to take the beetle-damaged pine. ![]() Wood pellet burners are a common energy source in commercial and residential operations in Europe and Scandinavia. A new alliance announced in July between a Vancouver company and Swedish partners will ship wood pellets made from beetle-kill wood to the European market. and one to end the week on.train travelīeetle-killed wood finds a new home in ScandinaviaĪs BC continues to battle against mass die-offs of trees due to mountain pine beetle infestations in the interior, new hope is emerging for uses for the beetle-kill wood. New Zealand forestry gains global recognition.Future Australian forestry skills audit welcomed by industry.Logging ban posing problems for Philippines furniture manufacturers.1.7m ha of eucalyptus plantations established in China.US$12 billion impact to forest products sector following Katrina.Concern about potential scams out of China.Woodwaste - 160MW of untapped NZ electricity generation potential.Southern Biomass Trading Floor opens for business.Sawmill staff layoffs announced in SA and Victoria.Beetle-killed wood finds a new home in Scandinavia.Make no bones about it, this issue in Coromandel has major ramifications to the future of the forestry industry in New Zealand. I'd suggest the only endangered species the New Zealand Government will have to deal with are existing forestry and wood products companies moving even more rapidly with their feet and prospective investors looking elsewhere as a direct consequence of the current RMA. The only difference is that in New Zealand, the industry doesn't have an endangered species to contend with. This latest process has the potential to become as debilitating to the New Zealand forestry industry as the spotted owl issue was to the industry in North America. Of course the larger riparian or riverside strips make any harvesting in the area - and most forests in NZ - uneconomic. Where it gets even harder for the forestry industry to swallow is that this small environmental pressure group is according to their website and promotional materials, appealing in conjunction with the Department of Conservation. With the regional Council running scared, Environment Waikato is now pushing for 15m either side of the stream and the environmental pressure group, 45m either side of streams. The company is offering to extend this out to 10m. The existing resource consent is for a 5-metre strip on either side of the streams. Much of the appeal is based on the riparian strips alongside streams. It appears a Coromandel-based pressure group is now preparing to appeal BML's application for renewal of it's resource consent to harvest trees within it's own 10,557ha of forests in the Coromandel. The NZ forestry industry was justifiably outraged when the decision was made in late July. The company decided with the current legislation that it had no grounds to appeal the court decision. Granted resource consents to the company were overturned by a local appeal to the Environment Court, mainly based on the perceived amenity values of a stream side piece of land. We reported several issues back on Blue Mountain Lumber's (BML) failed bid (reportedly costing the company NZ$1.5 million) to establish a NZ$30 million sawmill in the Coromandel Peninsula, New Zealand. However, something caught my eye recently that caused me to question the New Zealand Government's real commitment to encouraging growth in the industry on this side of the Tasman. We have a wide range of readers from an increasingly wide cross section of industries within the Australasian forestry, wood products and paper sectors. (morning.As an editor to Offcuts I deliberately make few comments on some of the key issues that we collate and bring to you each week through this e-newsletter. Web.ġ901 'Advertising', Bairnsdale Advertiser and Tambo and Omeo Chronicle (Vic. "Advertising" Bairnsdale Advertiser and Tambo and Omeo Chronicle (Vic. Bairnsdale Advertiser and Tambo and Omeo Chronicle (Vic. Article identifier Page identifier APA citationĪdvertising (1901, August 13).
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