Flexible land use alliance welcomes positive movement on forestry offset scheme
20 Jun 2008
The Flexible Land Use Alliance has welcomed moves by the Finance and 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 to ensure it comes into force on 1 September 2008 along with the rest of the Bill.
"No other individual amendment to the forestry provisions of the Bill would do more to restore confidence in the one industry capable of sequestering carbon than getting a Forestry Offset Scheme underway from 1 September 2008," a spokesman for the Flexible Land Use Alliance, Ross Green, said.
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