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Buy the hill: Depressing and farcical rules prevent native forest gaining carbon credits

The ETS rules made it “almost impossible to register naturally regenerating land”, they wrote. “Even where there are vast areas of regeneration, in the best cases, landowners have been able to register only a few hectares after expensive, intensive and back-breaking work,” wrote Thompson and representatives of the Christchurch City Council, Environment Canterbury, lines company Orion, Landcare Research,​ Hinewai Reserve,​ Di Lucas​ of Lucas Associates​ and others. ALDEN WILLIAMS/Stuff The Rod Donald Banks Peninsula Trust wants to regenerate native forest on gorse-covered farmland. “It is depressing and farcical to see so much carbon being sequestered in regenerating native forest, with all the biodiversity benefits this brings, being rejected by the Emissions Trading System in favour of pine blocks,” they submitted.

Big rain, big pain, big cost - Canterbury s week of flooding devastation

Martin Van Beynen05:00, Jun 05 2021 ALDEN WILLIAMS/STUFF Beef and dairy farmer Rob Withers saw his Springburn farm, near Mt Somers, ravaged in the Canterbury floods, the geography of the land itself entirely redrawn by the power of the water. An intensively farmed region of Canterbury lying between the north branch of the Ashburton/Hakatere and Hinds rivers was one of the hardest-hit by this week s floods. Reporter MARTIN VAN BEYNEN spent four days in the area assessing the impact. Farmers in Mid-Canterbury knew it would be bad. The MetService warned that 200-300 millimetres of rain was expected to “accumulate” about the high country between 3pm on Saturday and 11am on Monday. The rain would cause dangerous river conditions and significant flooding, the agency said.

Claims to insurers mount as Canterbury tallies flood and rain damage

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