Labour and Forestry Sector

John Armstrong writes on how Labour has alienated the one sector which is most crucial to its stated aim of carbon neutrality – forestry.

Their refusal to use any carrot has angered the sector, and then to threaten them with deforestation taxes has led to massive slumps in new plantings and a surge of deforestation. Incompetence doesn’t even come close to covering it. Even the Greens are saying the Government should hand over a portion of carbon credits to to the forestry sector to get seedlings planted.