via email Robert.Oakeshott.MP@aph.gov.au
Dear Rob,
I have liked your contributions to the Australian parliament to date.
However, I do not support your recent attempts to re-instate burning native forests under the MRET. This is unacceptable. I strongly oppose it.
Our native forests are still being destroyed in NSW, WA, TAS and VIC mostly for woodchips. The export markets for woodchip has collapsed so this destructive industry is about to halt.
But allowing the burning of native forest woodchips in forest furnaces will create a new and perverse "market" for the woodchips, and encourage ongoing destruction of our forests.
The are huge net carbon emissions from logging our native forests. Burning the woodchips m for electricity generation would be also result in significant carbon emissions.
Our native forests, and the carbon they store, should be protected, not turned into woodchips and burnt.
Regards,
Peter Campbell
2 comments:
Yes, I feel the same way. He's done a good job walking a difficult line but throwing the forests into the furnaces is not a solution to anything/
Just burn coal instead. Stuff renewable power sources.
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