A New Plymouth New Zealand contractor has been fined NZ$30,000 after an employee rolled a digger down a hill and ended up on ACC for a year. Sources: Stuff NZ, Taranaki Daily News Mangorei Sawmills Ltd (MSL) was sentenced in New Plymouth District Court after pleading guilty to a charg

The Tasmanian government is attempting to remove the term “wilderness” from the state’s wilderness world heritage area. Source: The Guardian (UK) According to The Guardian this could open the vast ecosystem to selective logging, cruise ships and landing strips for aircraft. In a draft

Wyong mayor Doug Eaton’s family company has run a Mannering Park timber business for nearly a decade either without council consent, or without complying with a court-ordered approval condition linked to a road with a history of fatal crashes. Source: Newcastle Herald Now questions ar

Residents neighbouring the Gladstone State Forest were given just days notice of Forestry Corporation plans to carry out ‘toxic’ aerial spraying for the control of grasses and woody weeds. Source: Bellingen Shire Courier-Sun Bellingen Green Action Group spokesperson Susan Weil told th

A timber industry spokesman Andrew Hurford has come out swinging against NSW Labor’s plan to create a 315,000-hectare Koala National Park. Sources: Northern Star, Coffs Coast Advocate The chairman of Timber NSW and managing director of Hurford Hardwood described the plan as R

Universal Forest Products is venturing outside of North America by acquiring a majority interest in Integra Packaging, a manufacturer and distributor of integrated packaging products based in Brisbane, Australia. Source: MLive Terms of the acquisition were not disclosed in a news rele

Stopping logging in Victoria’s central highlands would drive tens of millions of dollars into state coffers if the move were included under the Abbott government’s emissions reduction fund. Sources: The Age, The Bendigo Advertiser, The Brisbane Times Fairfax Media has seen

If heat and power plants that burn forest woodchips acquire these chips from optimised supply chains, they can obtain better quality biomass and lower their total acquisition costs according to a study by Ramoll Finland, commissioned by Miktech Oy. Source: Bioenergy Insights An optimi