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Carbon positive
Colbeck supports inclusion of forest industry under the fuel credit scheme
AMENDMENTS sought by the Federal Coalition on the Carbon Pollution Reduction Scheme (CPRS) fuel credit would see the forest industry treated in the same way as the agricultural and fishing sectors. The Coalition’s forestry spokesperson Senator Richard Colbeck (Tasmania) has confirmed support for the inclusion of forestry under the fuel credit scheme. “These amendments are a common sense response to encouraging a renewable and carbon positive forestry industry in the transition of the Australian economy to a low carbon future, the chief executive of the National Association of Forest Industries Allan Hansard said. The exclusion of forestry
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Getting a look in .. CPRS amendments would see forestry receive the same treatment as agriculture.
under the CPRS fuel credit Bill meant that the direct costs of any fuel price increases from the introduction of the CPRS would be directly passed on to industry ‘off-road’ activities,
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at an estimated average cost to each forestry contractor of $14,000 a year. “Many of these contractors are Cont Page 4
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