❓ A WA parliamentary question addresses incentive payments to the plantation timber industry, their reduction since 2000, and potential increases due to anticipated pine reductions. The Minister's response clarifies payment recipients and factors influencing payment levels.
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I refer to the pivotal role that an adequately supported plantation timber industry in this State would play in the context of the Western Australia Government’s draft greenhouse strategy and the ongoing provision of substantial benefits for the State’s environmental and economic wellbeing, especially in relation to the provision of high-quality freshwater. (1) By what criteria does the Forest Products Commission award incentive payments to plantation timber industry groups, and does the FPC draw a distinction between large-scale speculative plantation operations and multipurpose plantations that are not only economically profitable, but beneficial in the process of sustaining and regenerating native vegetation? (2) Why has the FPC reduced incentive payments and the component biodiversity and fencing allowances for the plantations timber industry since 2000, despite significant increases in land and commodity prices over the same period? (3) Given the anticipated reduction in plantation pine as a result of the Wood Processing (Wesbeam) Agreement Act, does the FPC intend to increase the incentive payments by 50 per cent and reintroduce the biodiversity allowance to restore them to the rate initially offered in 2000? (4) If no to (3), why not? Hon KIM CHANCE
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I was waiting for Hon Dee Margetts to finish her question. I presume she dropped some off. Hon Dee Margetts: I changed it and asked for your officers to be advised. The change to the question was in plenty of time. Hon KIM CHANCE: I hope I still have substantially the same question because the introduction to the question was also different. I will give the member the answer I have been provided. (1) The Forest Products Commission makes payments to landowners, not timber industry groups, for access to their land for the purpose of establishing commercial tree plantations. The level of these payments varies with a range of factors, including the size of the planting area, the location, soil type, soil productivity and expected rainfall and predicted haulage distance. The FPC also offers to share the benefits of any future commercial value of carbon credits with the landowner. The protection of high-value conservation or water resource is a priority where suitable land is made available by the landowners. (2) The payments for access to land have been progressively developed since 2000. The scheme managed by the Department of Conservation and Land Management in 2000 varied its payment with the scale of planting. The FPC now offers a significantly different payment scale taking into account a wider range of commercial considerations affecting the investment returns. The FPC advises that it is unable to provide a detailed comparison in the required time frame, but will provide the information requested as soon as possible. (3) No. (4) Payments will be reviewed at the end of the planting season, taking into account factors identified in (1) and success in acquiring land. (5) The Wesbeam LVL manufacturing plant will be supplied logs principally from plantations in the Perth region, including Gnangara, Pinjar and Yanchep.
(1) By what criteria does the Forest Products Commission award incentive payments to plantation timber industry groups, and does the FPC draw a distinction between large-scale speculative plantation operations and multipurpose plantations that are not only economically profitable, but beneficial in the process of sustaining and regenerating native vegetation? (2) Why has the FPC reduced incentive payments and the component biodiversity and fencing allowances for the plantations timber industry since 2000, despite significant increases in land and commodity prices over the same period? (3) Given the anticipated reduction in plantation pine as a result of the Wood Processing (Wesbeam) Agreement Act, does the FPC intend to increase the incentive payments by 50 per cent and reintroduce the biodiversity allowance to restore them to the rate initially offered in 2000? (4) If no to (3), why not? Hon KIM CHANCE replied: I was waiting for Hon Dee Margetts to finish her question. I presume she dropped some off. Hon Dee Margetts: I changed it and asked for your officers to be advised. The change to the question was in plenty of time. Hon KIM CHANCE: I hope I still have substantially the same question because the introduction to the question was also different. I will give the member the answer I have been provided. (1) The Forest Products Commission makes payments to landowners, not timber industry groups, for access to their land for the purpose of establishing commercial tree plantations. The level of these payments varies with a range of factors, including the size of the planting area, the location, soil type, soil productivity and expected rainfall and predicted haulage distance. The FPC also offers to share the benefits of any future commercial value of carbon credits with the landowner. The protection of high-value conservation or water resource is a priority where suitable land is made available by the landowners. (2) The payments for access to land have been progressively developed since 2000. The scheme managed by the Department of Conservation and Land Management in 2000 varied its payment with the scale of planting. The FPC now offers a significantly different payment scale taking into account a wider range of commercial considerations affecting the investment returns. The FPC advises that it is unable to provide a detailed comparison in the required time frame, but will provide the information requested as soon as possible. (3) No. (4) Payments will be reviewed at the end of the planting season, taking into account factors identified in (1) and success in acquiring land. (5) The Wesbeam LVL manufacturing plant will be supplied logs principally from plantations in the Perth region, including Gnangara, Pinjar and Yanchep.
(2) Why has the FPC reduced incentive payments and the component biodiversity and fencing allowances for the plantations timber industry since 2000, despite significant increases in land and commodity prices over the same period? (3) Given the anticipated reduction in plantation pine as a result of the Wood Processing (Wesbeam) Agreement Act, does the FPC intend to increase the incentive payments by 50 per cent and reintroduce the biodiversity allowance to restore them to the rate initially offered in 2000? (4) If no to (3), why not? Hon KIM CHANCE replied: I was waiting for Hon Dee Margetts to finish her question. I presume she dropped some off. Hon Dee Margetts: I changed it and asked for your officers to be advised. The change to the question was in plenty of time. Hon KIM CHANCE: I hope I still have substantially the same question because the introduction to the question was also different. I will give the member the answer I have been provided. (1) The Forest Products Commission makes payments to landowners, not timber industry groups, for access to their land for the purpose of establishing commercial tree plantations. The level of these payments varies with a range of factors, including the size of the planting area, the location, soil type, soil productivity and expected rainfall and predicted haulage distance. The FPC also offers to share the benefits of any future commercial value of carbon credits with the landowner. The protection of high-value conservation or water resource is a priority where suitable land is made available by the landowners. (2) The payments for access to land have been progressively developed since 2000. The scheme managed by the Department of Conservation and Land Management in 2000 varied its payment with the scale of planting. The FPC now offers a significantly different payment scale taking into account a wider range of commercial considerations affecting the investment returns. The FPC advises that it is unable to provide a detailed comparison in the required time frame, but will provide the information requested as soon as possible. (3) No. (4) Payments will be reviewed at the end of the planting season, taking into account factors identified in (1) and success in acquiring land. (5) The Wesbeam LVL manufacturing plant will be supplied logs principally from plantations in the Perth region, including Gnangara, Pinjar and Yanchep.
(3) Given the anticipated reduction in plantation pine as a result of the Wood Processing (Wesbeam) Agreement Act, does the FPC intend to increase the incentive payments by 50 per cent and reintroduce the biodiversity allowance to restore them to the rate initially offered in 2000? (4) If no to (3), why not? Hon KIM CHANCE replied: I was waiting for Hon Dee Margetts to finish her question. I presume she dropped some off. Hon Dee Margetts: I changed it and asked for your officers to be advised. The change to the question was in plenty of time. Hon KIM CHANCE: I hope I still have substantially the same question because the introduction to the question was also different. I will give the member the answer I have been provided. (1) The Forest Products Commission makes payments to landowners, not timber industry groups, for access to their land for the purpose of establishing commercial tree plantations. The level of these payments varies with a range of factors, including the size of the planting area, the location, soil type, soil productivity and expected rainfall and predicted haulage distance. The FPC also offers to share the benefits of any future commercial value of carbon credits with the landowner. The protection of high-value conservation or water resource is a priority where suitable land is made available by the landowners. (2) The payments for access to land have been progressively developed since 2000. The scheme managed by the Department of Conservation and Land Management in 2000 varied its payment with the scale of planting. The FPC now offers a significantly different payment scale taking into account a wider range of commercial considerations affecting the investment returns. The FPC advises that it is unable to provide a detailed comparison in the required time frame, but will provide the information requested as soon as possible. (3) No. (4) Payments will be reviewed at the end of the planting season, taking into account factors identified in (1) and success in acquiring land. (5) The Wesbeam LVL manufacturing plant will be supplied logs principally from plantations in the Perth region, including Gnangara, Pinjar and Yanchep.
(4) If no to (3), why not? Hon KIM CHANCE replied: I was waiting for Hon Dee Margetts to finish her question. I presume she dropped some off. Hon Dee Margetts: I changed it and asked for your officers to be advised. The change to the question was in plenty of time. Hon KIM CHANCE: I hope I still have substantially the same question because the introduction to the question was also different. I will give the member the answer I have been provided. (1) The Forest Products Commission makes payments to landowners, not timber industry groups, for access to their land for the purpose of establishing commercial tree plantations. The level of these payments varies with a range of factors, including the size of the planting area, the location, soil type, soil productivity and expected rainfall and predicted haulage distance. The FPC also offers to share the benefits of any future commercial value of carbon credits with the landowner. The protection of high-value conservation or water resource is a priority where suitable land is made available by the landowners. (2) The payments for access to land have been progressively developed since 2000. The scheme managed by the Department of Conservation and Land Management in 2000 varied its payment with the scale of planting. The FPC now offers a significantly different payment scale taking into account a wider range of commercial considerations affecting the investment returns. The FPC advises that it is unable to provide a detailed comparison in the required time frame, but will provide the information requested as soon as possible. (3) No. (4) Payments will be reviewed at the end of the planting season, taking into account factors identified in (1) and success in acquiring land. (5) The Wesbeam LVL manufacturing plant will be supplied logs principally from plantations in the Perth region, including Gnangara, Pinjar and Yanchep.
Hon KIM CHANCE replied: I was waiting for Hon Dee Margetts to finish her question. I presume she dropped some off. Hon Dee Margetts: I changed it and asked for your officers to be advised. The change to the question was in plenty of time. Hon KIM CHANCE: I hope I still have substantially the same question because the introduction to the question was also different. I will give the member the answer I have been provided. (1) The Forest Products Commission makes payments to landowners, not timber industry groups, for access to their land for the purpose of establishing commercial tree plantations. The level of these payments varies with a range of factors, including the size of the planting area, the location, soil type, soil productivity and expected rainfall and predicted haulage distance. The FPC also offers to share the benefits of any future commercial value of carbon credits with the landowner. The protection of high-value conservation or water resource is a priority where suitable land is made available by the landowners. (2) The payments for access to land have been progressively developed since 2000. The scheme managed by the Department of Conservation and Land Management in 2000 varied its payment with the scale of planting. The FPC now offers a significantly different payment scale taking into account a wider range of commercial considerations affecting the investment returns. The FPC advises that it is unable to provide a detailed comparison in the required time frame, but will provide the information requested as soon as possible. (3) No. (4) Payments will be reviewed at the end of the planting season, taking into account factors identified in (1) and success in acquiring land. (5) The Wesbeam LVL manufacturing plant will be supplied logs principally from plantations in the Perth region, including Gnangara, Pinjar and Yanchep.
I was waiting for Hon Dee Margetts to finish her question. I presume she dropped some off. Hon Dee Margetts: I changed it and asked for your officers to be advised. The change to the question was in plenty of time. Hon KIM CHANCE: I hope I still have substantially the same question because the introduction to the question was also different. I will give the member the answer I have been provided. (1) The Forest Products Commission makes payments to landowners, not timber industry groups, for access to their land for the purpose of establishing commercial tree plantations. The level of these payments varies with a range of factors, including the size of the planting area, the location, soil type, soil productivity and expected rainfall and predicted haulage distance. The FPC also offers to share the benefits of any future commercial value of carbon credits with the landowner. The protection of high-value conservation or water resource is a priority where suitable land is made available by the landowners. (2) The payments for access to land have been progressively developed since 2000. The scheme managed by the Department of Conservation and Land Management in 2000 varied its payment with the scale of planting. The FPC now offers a significantly different payment scale taking into account a wider range of commercial considerations affecting the investment returns. The FPC advises that it is unable to provide a detailed comparison in the required time frame, but will provide the information requested as soon as possible. (3) No. (4) Payments will be reviewed at the end of the planting season, taking into account factors identified in (1) and success in acquiring land. (5) The Wesbeam LVL manufacturing plant will be supplied logs principally from plantations in the Perth region, including Gnangara, Pinjar and Yanchep.
Hon Dee Margetts: I changed it and asked for your officers to be advised. The change to the question was in plenty of time. Hon KIM CHANCE: I hope I still have substantially the same question because the introduction to the question was also different. I will give the member the answer I have been provided. (1) The Forest Products Commission makes payments to landowners, not timber industry groups, for access to their land for the purpose of establishing commercial tree plantations. The level of these payments varies with a range of factors, including the size of the planting area, the location, soil type, soil productivity and expected rainfall and predicted haulage distance. The FPC also offers to share the benefits of any future commercial value of carbon credits with the landowner. The protection of high-value conservation or water resource is a priority where suitable land is made available by the landowners. (2) The payments for access to land have been progressively developed since 2000. The scheme managed by the Department of Conservation and Land Management in 2000 varied its payment with the scale of planting. The FPC now offers a significantly different payment scale taking into account a wider range of commercial considerations affecting the investment returns. The FPC advises that it is unable to provide a detailed comparison in the required time frame, but will provide the information requested as soon as possible. (3) No. (4) Payments will be reviewed at the end of the planting season, taking into account factors identified in (1) and success in acquiring land. (5) The Wesbeam LVL manufacturing plant will be supplied logs principally from plantations in the Perth region, including Gnangara, Pinjar and Yanchep.
Hon KIM CHANCE: I hope I still have substantially the same question because the introduction to the question was also different. I will give the member the answer I have been provided. (1) The Forest Products Commission makes payments to landowners, not timber industry groups, for access to their land for the purpose of establishing commercial tree plantations. The level of these payments varies with a range of factors, including the size of the planting area, the location, soil type, soil productivity and expected rainfall and predicted haulage distance. The FPC also offers to share the benefits of any future commercial value of carbon credits with the landowner. The protection of high-value conservation or water resource is a priority where suitable land is made available by the landowners. (2) The payments for access to land have been progressively developed since 2000. The scheme managed by the Department of Conservation and Land Management in 2000 varied its payment with the scale of planting. The FPC now offers a significantly different payment scale taking into account a wider range of commercial considerations affecting the investment returns. The FPC advises that it is unable to provide a detailed comparison in the required time frame, but will provide the information requested as soon as possible. (3) No. (4) Payments will be reviewed at the end of the planting season, taking into account factors identified in (1) and success in acquiring land. (5) The Wesbeam LVL manufacturing plant will be supplied logs principally from plantations in the Perth region, including Gnangara, Pinjar and Yanchep.
(1) The Forest Products Commission makes payments to landowners, not timber industry groups, for access to their land for the purpose of establishing commercial tree plantations. The level of these payments varies with a range of factors, including the size of the planting area, the location, soil type, soil productivity and expected rainfall and predicted haulage distance. The FPC also offers to share the benefits of any future commercial value of carbon credits with the landowner. The protection of high-value conservation or water resource is a priority where suitable land is made available by the landowners. (2) The payments for access to land have been progressively developed since 2000. The scheme managed by the Department of Conservation and Land Management in 2000 varied its payment with the scale of planting. The FPC now offers a significantly different payment scale taking into account a wider range of commercial considerations affecting the investment returns. The FPC advises that it is unable to provide a detailed comparison in the required time frame, but will provide the information requested as soon as possible. (3) No. (4) Payments will be reviewed at the end of the planting season, taking into account factors identified in (1) and success in acquiring land. (5) The Wesbeam LVL manufacturing plant will be supplied logs principally from plantations in the Perth region, including Gnangara, Pinjar and Yanchep.
(2) The payments for access to land have been progressively developed since 2000. The scheme managed by the Department of Conservation and Land Management in 2000 varied its payment with the scale of planting. The FPC now offers a significantly different payment scale taking into account a wider range of commercial considerations affecting the investment returns. The FPC advises that it is unable to provide a detailed comparison in the required time frame, but will provide the information requested as soon as possible. (3) No. (4) Payments will be reviewed at the end of the planting season, taking into account factors identified in (1) and success in acquiring land. (5) The Wesbeam LVL manufacturing plant will be supplied logs principally from plantations in the Perth region, including Gnangara, Pinjar and Yanchep.
(3) No. (4) Payments will be reviewed at the end of the planting season, taking into account factors identified in (1) and success in acquiring land. (5) The Wesbeam LVL manufacturing plant will be supplied logs principally from plantations in the Perth region, including Gnangara, Pinjar and Yanchep.
(4) Payments will be reviewed at the end of the planting season, taking into account factors identified in (1) and success in acquiring land. (5) The Wesbeam LVL manufacturing plant will be supplied logs principally from plantations in the Perth region, including Gnangara, Pinjar and Yanchep.
(5) The Wesbeam LVL manufacturing plant will be supplied logs principally from plantations in the Perth region, including Gnangara, Pinjar and Yanchep.
(1) By what criteria does the Forest Products Commission award incentive payments to plantation timber industry groups, and does the FPC draw a distinction between large-scale speculative plantation operations and multipurpose plantations that are not only economically profitable, but beneficial in the process of sustaining and regenerating native vegetation? (2) Why has the FPC reduced incentive payments and the component biodiversity and fencing allowances for the plantations timber industry since 2000, despite significant increases in land and commodity prices over the same period? (3) Given the anticipated reduction in plantation pine as a result of the Wood Processing (Wesbeam) Agreement Act, does the FPC intend to increase the incentive payments by 50 per cent and reintroduce the biodiversity allowance to restore them to the rate initially offered in 2000? (4) If no to (3), why not? Hon KIM CHANCE replied: I was waiting for Hon Dee Margetts to finish her question. I presume she dropped some off. Hon Dee Margetts: I changed it and asked for your officers to be advised. The change to the question was in plenty of time. Hon KIM CHANCE: I hope I still have substantially the same question because the introduction to the question was also different. I will give the member the answer I have been provided. (1) The Forest Products Commission makes payments to landowners, not timber industry groups, for access to their land for the purpose of establishing commercial tree plantations. The level of these payments varies with a range of factors, including the size of the planting area, the location, soil type, soil productivity and expected rainfall and predicted haulage distance. The FPC also offers to share the benefits of any future commercial value of carbon credits with the landowner. The protection of high-value conservation or water resource is a priority where suitable land is made available by the landowners. (2) The payments for access to land have been progressively developed since 2000. The scheme managed by the Department of Conservation and Land Management in 2000 varied its payment with the scale of planting. The FPC now offers a significantly different payment scale taking into account a wider range of commercial considerations affecting the investment returns. The FPC advises that it is unable to provide a detailed comparison in the required time frame, but will provide the information requested as soon as possible. (3) No. (4) Payments will be reviewed at the end of the planting season, taking into account factors identified in (1) and success in acquiring land. (5) The Wesbeam LVL manufacturing plant will be supplied logs principally from plantations in the Perth region, including Gnangara, Pinjar and Yanchep.
(2) Why has the FPC reduced incentive payments and the component biodiversity and fencing allowances for the plantations timber industry since 2000, despite significant increases in land and commodity prices over the same period? (3) Given the anticipated reduction in plantation pine as a result of the Wood Processing (Wesbeam) Agreement Act, does the FPC intend to increase the incentive payments by 50 per cent and reintroduce the biodiversity allowance to restore them to the rate initially offered in 2000? (4) If no to (3), why not? Hon KIM CHANCE replied: I was waiting for Hon Dee Margetts to finish her question. I presume she dropped some off. Hon Dee Margetts: I changed it and asked for your officers to be advised. The change to the question was in plenty of time. Hon KIM CHANCE: I hope I still have substantially the same question because the introduction to the question was also different. I will give the member the answer I have been provided. (1) The Forest Products Commission makes payments to landowners, not timber industry groups, for access to their land for the purpose of establishing commercial tree plantations. The level of these payments varies with a range of factors, including the size of the planting area, the location, soil type, soil productivity and expected rainfall and predicted haulage distance. The FPC also offers to share the benefits of any future commercial value of carbon credits with the landowner. The protection of high-value conservation or water resource is a priority where suitable land is made available by the landowners. (2) The payments for access to land have been progressively developed since 2000. The scheme managed by the Department of Conservation and Land Management in 2000 varied its payment with the scale of planting. The FPC now offers a significantly different payment scale taking into account a wider range of commercial considerations affecting the investment returns. The FPC advises that it is unable to provide a detailed comparison in the required time frame, but will provide the information requested as soon as possible. (3) No. (4) Payments will be reviewed at the end of the planting season, taking into account factors identified in (1) and success in acquiring land. (5) The Wesbeam LVL manufacturing plant will be supplied logs principally from plantations in the Perth region, including Gnangara, Pinjar and Yanchep.
(3) Given the anticipated reduction in plantation pine as a result of the Wood Processing (Wesbeam) Agreement Act, does the FPC intend to increase the incentive payments by 50 per cent and reintroduce the biodiversity allowance to restore them to the rate initially offered in 2000? (4) If no to (3), why not? Hon KIM CHANCE replied: I was waiting for Hon Dee Margetts to finish her question. I presume she dropped some off. Hon Dee Margetts: I changed it and asked for your officers to be advised. The change to the question was in plenty of time. Hon KIM CHANCE: I hope I still have substantially the same question because the introduction to the question was also different. I will give the member the answer I have been provided. (1) The Forest Products Commission makes payments to landowners, not timber industry groups, for access to their land for the purpose of establishing commercial tree plantations. The level of these payments varies with a range of factors, including the size of the planting area, the location, soil type, soil productivity and expected rainfall and predicted haulage distance. The FPC also offers to share the benefits of any future commercial value of carbon credits with the landowner. The protection of high-value conservation or water resource is a priority where suitable land is made available by the landowners. (2) The payments for access to land have been progressively developed since 2000. The scheme managed by the Department of Conservation and Land Management in 2000 varied its payment with the scale of planting. The FPC now offers a significantly different payment scale taking into account a wider range of commercial considerations affecting the investment returns. The FPC advises that it is unable to provide a detailed comparison in the required time frame, but will provide the information requested as soon as possible. (3) No. (4) Payments will be reviewed at the end of the planting season, taking into account factors identified in (1) and success in acquiring land. (5) The Wesbeam LVL manufacturing plant will be supplied logs principally from plantations in the Perth region, including Gnangara, Pinjar and Yanchep.
(4) If no to (3), why not? Hon KIM CHANCE replied: I was waiting for Hon Dee Margetts to finish her question. I presume she dropped some off. Hon Dee Margetts: I changed it and asked for your officers to be advised. The change to the question was in plenty of time. Hon KIM CHANCE: I hope I still have substantially the same question because the introduction to the question was also different. I will give the member the answer I have been provided. (1) The Forest Products Commission makes payments to landowners, not timber industry groups, for access to their land for the purpose of establishing commercial tree plantations. The level of these payments varies with a range of factors, including the size of the planting area, the location, soil type, soil productivity and expected rainfall and predicted haulage distance. The FPC also offers to share the benefits of any future commercial value of carbon credits with the landowner. The protection of high-value conservation or water resource is a priority where suitable land is made available by the landowners. (2) The payments for access to land have been progressively developed since 2000. The scheme managed by the Department of Conservation and Land Management in 2000 varied its payment with the scale of planting. The FPC now offers a significantly different payment scale taking into account a wider range of commercial considerations affecting the investment returns. The FPC advises that it is unable to provide a detailed comparison in the required time frame, but will provide the information requested as soon as possible. (3) No. (4) Payments will be reviewed at the end of the planting season, taking into account factors identified in (1) and success in acquiring land. (5) The Wesbeam LVL manufacturing plant will be supplied logs principally from plantations in the Perth region, including Gnangara, Pinjar and Yanchep.
Hon KIM CHANCE replied: I was waiting for Hon Dee Margetts to finish her question. I presume she dropped some off. Hon Dee Margetts: I changed it and asked for your officers to be advised. The change to the question was in plenty of time. Hon KIM CHANCE: I hope I still have substantially the same question because the introduction to the question was also different. I will give the member the answer I have been provided. (1) The Forest Products Commission makes payments to landowners, not timber industry groups, for access to their land for the purpose of establishing commercial tree plantations. The level of these payments varies with a range of factors, including the size of the planting area, the location, soil type, soil productivity and expected rainfall and predicted haulage distance. The FPC also offers to share the benefits of any future commercial value of carbon credits with the landowner. The protection of high-value conservation or water resource is a priority where suitable land is made available by the landowners. (2) The payments for access to land have been progressively developed since 2000. The scheme managed by the Department of Conservation and Land Management in 2000 varied its payment with the scale of planting. The FPC now offers a significantly different payment scale taking into account a wider range of commercial considerations affecting the investment returns. The FPC advises that it is unable to provide a detailed comparison in the required time frame, but will provide the information requested as soon as possible. (3) No. (4) Payments will be reviewed at the end of the planting season, taking into account factors identified in (1) and success in acquiring land. (5) The Wesbeam LVL manufacturing plant will be supplied logs principally from plantations in the Perth region, including Gnangara, Pinjar and Yanchep.
I was waiting for Hon Dee Margetts to finish her question. I presume she dropped some off. Hon Dee Margetts: I changed it and asked for your officers to be advised. The change to the question was in plenty of time. Hon KIM CHANCE: I hope I still have substantially the same question because the introduction to the question was also different. I will give the member the answer I have been provided. (1) The Forest Products Commission makes payments to landowners, not timber industry groups, for access to their land for the purpose of establishing commercial tree plantations. The level of these payments varies with a range of factors, including the size of the planting area, the location, soil type, soil productivity and expected rainfall and predicted haulage distance. The FPC also offers to share the benefits of any future commercial value of carbon credits with the landowner. The protection of high-value conservation or water resource is a priority where suitable land is made available by the landowners. (2) The payments for access to land have been progressively developed since 2000. The scheme managed by the Department of Conservation and Land Management in 2000 varied its payment with the scale of planting. The FPC now offers a significantly different payment scale taking into account a wider range of commercial considerations affecting the investment returns. The FPC advises that it is unable to provide a detailed comparison in the required time frame, but will provide the information requested as soon as possible. (3) No. (4) Payments will be reviewed at the end of the planting season, taking into account factors identified in (1) and success in acquiring land. (5) The Wesbeam LVL manufacturing plant will be supplied logs principally from plantations in the Perth region, including Gnangara, Pinjar and Yanchep.
Hon Dee Margetts: I changed it and asked for your officers to be advised. The change to the question was in plenty of time. Hon KIM CHANCE: I hope I still have substantially the same question because the introduction to the question was also different. I will give the member the answer I have been provided. (1) The Forest Products Commission makes payments to landowners, not timber industry groups, for access to their land for the purpose of establishing commercial tree plantations. The level of these payments varies with a range of factors, including the size of the planting area, the location, soil type, soil productivity and expected rainfall and predicted haulage distance. The FPC also offers to share the benefits of any future commercial value of carbon credits with the landowner. The protection of high-value conservation or water resource is a priority where suitable land is made available by the landowners. (2) The payments for access to land have been progressively developed since 2000. The scheme managed by the Department of Conservation and Land Management in 2000 varied its payment with the scale of planting. The FPC now offers a significantly different payment scale taking into account a wider range of commercial considerations affecting the investment returns. The FPC advises that it is unable to provide a detailed comparison in the required time frame, but will provide the information requested as soon as possible. (3) No. (4) Payments will be reviewed at the end of the planting season, taking into account factors identified in (1) and success in acquiring land. (5) The Wesbeam LVL manufacturing plant will be supplied logs principally from plantations in the Perth region, including Gnangara, Pinjar and Yanchep.
Hon KIM CHANCE: I hope I still have substantially the same question because the introduction to the question was also different. I will give the member the answer I have been provided. (1) The Forest Products Commission makes payments to landowners, not timber industry groups, for access to their land for the purpose of establishing commercial tree plantations. The level of these payments varies with a range of factors, including the size of the planting area, the location, soil type, soil productivity and expected rainfall and predicted haulage distance. The FPC also offers to share the benefits of any future commercial value of carbon credits with the landowner. The protection of high-value conservation or water resource is a priority where suitable land is made available by the landowners. (2) The payments for access to land have been progressively developed since 2000. The scheme managed by the Department of Conservation and Land Management in 2000 varied its payment with the scale of planting. The FPC now offers a significantly different payment scale taking into account a wider range of commercial considerations affecting the investment returns. The FPC advises that it is unable to provide a detailed comparison in the required time frame, but will provide the information requested as soon as possible. (3) No. (4) Payments will be reviewed at the end of the planting season, taking into account factors identified in (1) and success in acquiring land. (5) The Wesbeam LVL manufacturing plant will be supplied logs principally from plantations in the Perth region, including Gnangara, Pinjar and Yanchep.
(1) The Forest Products Commission makes payments to landowners, not timber industry groups, for access to their land for the purpose of establishing commercial tree plantations. The level of these payments varies with a range of factors, including the size of the planting area, the location, soil type, soil productivity and expected rainfall and predicted haulage distance. The FPC also offers to share the benefits of any future commercial value of carbon credits with the landowner. The protection of high-value conservation or water resource is a priority where suitable land is made available by the landowners. (2) The payments for access to land have been progressively developed since 2000. The scheme managed by the Department of Conservation and Land Management in 2000 varied its payment with the scale of planting. The FPC now offers a significantly different payment scale taking into account a wider range of commercial considerations affecting the investment returns. The FPC advises that it is unable to provide a detailed comparison in the required time frame, but will provide the information requested as soon as possible. (3) No. (4) Payments will be reviewed at the end of the planting season, taking into account factors identified in (1) and success in acquiring land. (5) The Wesbeam LVL manufacturing plant will be supplied logs principally from plantations in the Perth region, including Gnangara, Pinjar and Yanchep.
(2) The payments for access to land have been progressively developed since 2000. The scheme managed by the Department of Conservation and Land Management in 2000 varied its payment with the scale of planting. The FPC now offers a significantly different payment scale taking into account a wider range of commercial considerations affecting the investment returns. The FPC advises that it is unable to provide a detailed comparison in the required time frame, but will provide the information requested as soon as possible. (3) No. (4) Payments will be reviewed at the end of the planting season, taking into account factors identified in (1) and success in acquiring land. (5) The Wesbeam LVL manufacturing plant will be supplied logs principally from plantations in the Perth region, including Gnangara, Pinjar and Yanchep.
(3) No. (4) Payments will be reviewed at the end of the planting season, taking into account factors identified in (1) and success in acquiring land. (5) The Wesbeam LVL manufacturing plant will be supplied logs principally from plantations in the Perth region, including Gnangara, Pinjar and Yanchep.
(4) Payments will be reviewed at the end of the planting season, taking into account factors identified in (1) and success in acquiring land. (5) The Wesbeam LVL manufacturing plant will be supplied logs principally from plantations in the Perth region, including Gnangara, Pinjar and Yanchep.
(5) The Wesbeam LVL manufacturing plant will be supplied logs principally from plantations in the Perth region, including Gnangara, Pinjar and Yanchep.
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