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.
Forestry News
Labour: Zero tolerance for forestry accidents a must
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.
Pest research takes pressure off ports
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.
Stump to Pump is technically feasible
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.
Victim's father now forest safety champion
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.
Northern iwi forest owners to work together
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
Feds RMA backtrack criticised by EDS
11 September 2014
The Election Manifesto released today by Federated Farmers contains an "extremely disappointing and self-serving policy wish-list," says the Environmental Defence Society
Taxpayer rewards farm polluters
4 September 2014
A National Party promise to spend $200 million of taxpayers and ratepayers money to buy streamside land on dirty dairy farms has been described as a disgrace by the New Zealand Institute of Forestry.
Research begins into safer forest roads
The University of Canterbury is to launch a new research project to make sure New Zealand's new forestry roads are safe and are established with minimal environmental impact.