❓ Hon Christine Sharp requests details of the Forest Products Commission's contract with Pentarch Forest Products, specifically stumpage rates and log specifications. Hon Kim Chance declines to provide specific details due to a confidentiality clause, but offers general information and suggests calculations based on publicly available data.
AnsweredQoN 747Legislative Council
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(1) Will the minister provide the schedule of stumpage rates and log specifications agreed to in the recently signed contract between the Forest Products Commission and Pentarch Forest Products Pty Ltd for the supply of surplus harvest thinnings and oversized industrial wood? (2) If not, why not? Hon KIM CHANCE
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I thank Hon Chrissie Sharp for some notice of the question. (1) The Pentarch contract will result in the disposal of lower-grade pine logs for which there is no current market in Western Australia resulting in a request for proposal 2631. The specification of logs provided will vary depending on the overseas market sourced by Pentarch throughout the contract. The initial orders are for logs of pulpwood grade. The price paid for logs is on a delivered-price basis. It will vary with international market conditions and the quality of products produced. (2) The Pentarch contract contains a confidentiality clause as to its terms and conditions. Therefore, its details cannot be disclosed with any precision. However, the honourable member will be able, as I have done, to perform some back-of-envelope calculations on the numbers published.
(2) If not, why not? Hon KIM CHANCE replied : I thank Hon Chrissie Sharp for some notice of the question. (1) The Pentarch contract will result in the disposal of lower-grade pine logs for which there is no current market in Western Australia resulting in a request for proposal 2631. The specification of logs provided will vary depending on the overseas market sourced by Pentarch throughout the contract. The initial orders are for logs of pulpwood grade. The price paid for logs is on a delivered-price basis. It will vary with international market conditions and the quality of products produced. (2) The Pentarch contract contains a confidentiality clause as to its terms and conditions. Therefore, its details cannot be disclosed with any precision. However, the honourable member will be able, as I have done, to perform some back-of-envelope calculations on the numbers published.
Hon KIM CHANCE replied : I thank Hon Chrissie Sharp for some notice of the question. (1) The Pentarch contract will result in the disposal of lower-grade pine logs for which there is no current market in Western Australia resulting in a request for proposal 2631. The specification of logs provided will vary depending on the overseas market sourced by Pentarch throughout the contract. The initial orders are for logs of pulpwood grade. The price paid for logs is on a delivered-price basis. It will vary with international market conditions and the quality of products produced. (2) The Pentarch contract contains a confidentiality clause as to its terms and conditions. Therefore, its details cannot be disclosed with any precision. However, the honourable member will be able, as I have done, to perform some back-of-envelope calculations on the numbers published.
I thank Hon Chrissie Sharp for some notice of the question. (1) The Pentarch contract will result in the disposal of lower-grade pine logs for which there is no current market in Western Australia resulting in a request for proposal 2631. The specification of logs provided will vary depending on the overseas market sourced by Pentarch throughout the contract. The initial orders are for logs of pulpwood grade. The price paid for logs is on a delivered-price basis. It will vary with international market conditions and the quality of products produced. (2) The Pentarch contract contains a confidentiality clause as to its terms and conditions. Therefore, its details cannot be disclosed with any precision. However, the honourable member will be able, as I have done, to perform some back-of-envelope calculations on the numbers published.
(1) The Pentarch contract will result in the disposal of lower-grade pine logs for which there is no current market in Western Australia resulting in a request for proposal 2631. The specification of logs provided will vary depending on the overseas market sourced by Pentarch throughout the contract. The initial orders are for logs of pulpwood grade. The price paid for logs is on a delivered-price basis. It will vary with international market conditions and the quality of products produced. (2) The Pentarch contract contains a confidentiality clause as to its terms and conditions. Therefore, its details cannot be disclosed with any precision. However, the honourable member will be able, as I have done, to perform some back-of-envelope calculations on the numbers published.
(2) The Pentarch contract contains a confidentiality clause as to its terms and conditions. Therefore, its details cannot be disclosed with any precision. However, the honourable member will be able, as I have done, to perform some back-of-envelope calculations on the numbers published.
(2) If not, why not? Hon KIM CHANCE replied : I thank Hon Chrissie Sharp for some notice of the question. (1) The Pentarch contract will result in the disposal of lower-grade pine logs for which there is no current market in Western Australia resulting in a request for proposal 2631. The specification of logs provided will vary depending on the overseas market sourced by Pentarch throughout the contract. The initial orders are for logs of pulpwood grade. The price paid for logs is on a delivered-price basis. It will vary with international market conditions and the quality of products produced. (2) The Pentarch contract contains a confidentiality clause as to its terms and conditions. Therefore, its details cannot be disclosed with any precision. However, the honourable member will be able, as I have done, to perform some back-of-envelope calculations on the numbers published.
Hon KIM CHANCE replied : I thank Hon Chrissie Sharp for some notice of the question. (1) The Pentarch contract will result in the disposal of lower-grade pine logs for which there is no current market in Western Australia resulting in a request for proposal 2631. The specification of logs provided will vary depending on the overseas market sourced by Pentarch throughout the contract. The initial orders are for logs of pulpwood grade. The price paid for logs is on a delivered-price basis. It will vary with international market conditions and the quality of products produced. (2) The Pentarch contract contains a confidentiality clause as to its terms and conditions. Therefore, its details cannot be disclosed with any precision. However, the honourable member will be able, as I have done, to perform some back-of-envelope calculations on the numbers published.
I thank Hon Chrissie Sharp for some notice of the question. (1) The Pentarch contract will result in the disposal of lower-grade pine logs for which there is no current market in Western Australia resulting in a request for proposal 2631. The specification of logs provided will vary depending on the overseas market sourced by Pentarch throughout the contract. The initial orders are for logs of pulpwood grade. The price paid for logs is on a delivered-price basis. It will vary with international market conditions and the quality of products produced. (2) The Pentarch contract contains a confidentiality clause as to its terms and conditions. Therefore, its details cannot be disclosed with any precision. However, the honourable member will be able, as I have done, to perform some back-of-envelope calculations on the numbers published.
(1) The Pentarch contract will result in the disposal of lower-grade pine logs for which there is no current market in Western Australia resulting in a request for proposal 2631. The specification of logs provided will vary depending on the overseas market sourced by Pentarch throughout the contract. The initial orders are for logs of pulpwood grade. The price paid for logs is on a delivered-price basis. It will vary with international market conditions and the quality of products produced. (2) The Pentarch contract contains a confidentiality clause as to its terms and conditions. Therefore, its details cannot be disclosed with any precision. However, the honourable member will be able, as I have done, to perform some back-of-envelope calculations on the numbers published.
(2) The Pentarch contract contains a confidentiality clause as to its terms and conditions. Therefore, its details cannot be disclosed with any precision. However, the honourable member will be able, as I have done, to perform some back-of-envelope calculations on the numbers published.
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