Bob Loone
Put clearly and simply the reviewed PAL policy facilitates unrestricted rights for MIS plantation forestry corporations to destroy our farms, cause ongoing economic losses, gross fettering, loss of agricultural production potential, and turn all but 4.3% of our farmland into unsustainable forestry plantations. All protection of farm destroying, unsustainable, plantation forestry must be remover from the policy.
SINCE the inception of the PAL Policy in the late 1990’s its real and primary purpose has been to ensure MIS plantation forestry corporations have unhindered access to our highly productive farmland to the demise of council’s rate base, agricultural productivity and the economy.
• The policy’s purpose and objects make statements about protecting agricultural production, community input, and sustainability; then it facilitates and ensures free passage for the direct opposite to occur.
• The PAL Policy supports and facilitates MIS plantation forestry’s destruction of agricultural production, economic activity, biodiversity, scenic values, communities, soil fertility, and water availability etc.
• The revised PAL policy specifically facilitates and promotes the loss and fettering of our precious farmland to plantation forestry.
• The PAL policy has already facilitated the loss and destruction of huge areas of our highly productive farmland (that we will desperately need as Climate Change increasingly ravages the world’s food potential). PAL can more correctly be called the Plantation Allocated Land policy.
Ownership of large areas of our farmland is already in danger of going to absentee overseas interests and multinationals. The PAL policy forces councils to give MIS plantation forestry corporations unhindered access to over 95% of our precious agricultural land.
Put clearly and simply the reviewed PAL policy facilitates unrestricted rights for MIS plantation forestry corporations to destroy our farms, cause ongoing economic losses, gross fettering, loss of agricultural production potential, and turn all but 4.3% of our farmland into unsustainable forestry plantations. All protection of farm destroying, unsustainable, plantation forestry must be remover from the policy.
Bob Loone,
Chudleigh.
