Subsidy/
grant |
Amount |
Source
|
One-stop-shop forestry online database
|
$300 million |
Quote from federal Minister Julie Collins
5 December 2024
media statement: "The Albanese Labor
Government is investing $300 million in the future of the
forestry industry, which includes:
Over $100 million for transformative research, development
and innovation for the timber industry through Australian
Forest and Wood Innovations
• Over $100 million to support the medium and long-term
sustainability of our wood processing sector through the
Accelerate Adoption of Wood Processing Innovation program
• Over $73 million to expand Australia’s future wood supply
through the Support Plantation Establishment program, and
• $10 million in the industry’s training needs through the
Forestry Workforce Training Program."
https://minister.agriculture.gov.au/collins/media-releases/one-stop-shop-forestry-online-database
|
A Future Grown in Australia: A Better Plan
for Forestry and Forestry Products. |
$3.4 million over four years |
From
2024/25 Budget for a national strategy
for the wood fibre and forestry sector and a commitment to
review the 1992 National Forestry Policy Statement in
collaboration with state and territory governments. These
initiatives are part of a $302 million investment in new
plantations and technology. |
Bushfire Local Economic Recovery Fund Grafton Timber mill
upgrade |
$20 million |
NSW and federal Government: Grafton timber factory receives
major upgrade,
08 Apr, 2024
Grafton timber factory receives major upgrade - Build
Australia |
NSW budget hand out to Forestry Corporation
for road repair work |
$58 million |
19 September 2023
https://www.nature.org.au/nsw_budget_fails_to_meet_the_climate_and_environment_moment
|
Accelerate Adoption of Wood Processing
Innovation grant program |
$108 million |
21 April 2023 Federal government
announcement: "Timber
companies to get $108M funding from Federal Government."
Timberbiz article
Ministerial announcement |
Bridges Renewal Program |
$4,540,00 |
Watergums Creek Bridge, Wonboyn.The
existing single-lane bridge will be replaced with a two-lane
concrete structure. The new bridge will be higher than the
100-year flood level and capable of carrying heavy forestry
harvesting vehicles.
$3,540,000 from federal government,
co-funded with the Bega Valley Shire Council with a
total project cost of $4,540,000.
Kristy McBain announcement
|
National Institute for Forest Products Innovation |
$100 million |
“Federal
budget confirms $100m for forest product innovations”
Timberbiz, 26 October 2022
National Institute for Forest Products Innovation +
confirmation of other previously announced grants by the
former coalition government.
https://www.timberbiz.com.au/federal-budget-confirms-100m-for-forest-product-innovations/
|
ForestWorks. Funding for Log Haulage
Code of Practice. |
$3.5 million |
ForestWorks has received funding
for the implementation of support products for the Log
Haulage Code of Practice. The project will develop two
products that will support recognition, adoption,
implementation and compliance to the Log Haulage Code of
Practice, 26 September 2022
https://www.timberbiz.com.au/forestworks-funded-to-support-log-haulage-code-of-practice/ |
NSW subsidy for flood affected North
Coast timber industry |
$10 million |
NSW government has announced a $10 million
subsidy to help the flood-ravaged timber industry in
northern NSW stay afloat. 24 May
2022 |
Waste project to power Opal’s pulp and paper
mill, Maryvale Vic. |
$48.2m |
Federal election promise by Liberal Party. Maryvale Energy
from Waste project at Opal Australian Paper’s Maryvale
Mill, https://www.timberbiz.com.au/opal-gains-48m-for-its-energy-from-waste-project-at-maryvale/
|
Coalition election promises 2022 |
$220 million package |
Scott Morrison: "We’re backing our
forestry industry and the more than 73,000 jobs it supports
all across Australia with a nearly $220 million package that
invests in new technologies to grow the sec"
https://auspol.co/scott-morrison-were-backing-our-forestry-industry-and-the-more-than-73000-jobs/ |
"Cash-grant
scheme designed to help foresters and farmers in 11 declared
regional forest hubs" |
$86m |
21 Feb 2022
"a
key component of the National Forest Industries Plan"
https://www.pm.gov.au/media/86-million-offer-grow-australias-plantation-estate
"Fed’s
$86M plan is a conversation starter"
https://www.timberbiz.com.au/friday-analysis-feds-86m-plan-is-a-conversation-starter/
|
Federal funds for NIFPI, R&D, illegal
timber study |
$26.2m |
Senator Duniam
announced 7 December 2021:
-
$3.1 million
over two years to extend the regional National Institute
for Forest Products Innovation (NIFPI) Centres in
Launceston, Mount Gambier, and Gippsland.
-
$3.8 million over 3 years from 2022 for matching funding
for R&D under the Growers Levy.
-
$900,000 over two years to deliver a series of studies
to assess our exposure to illegally logged timber.
|
Forestry 'Hubs', including new 'hub' for
Eden |
$10.6 million
$1.1m for Eden |
Ministers' media statement
Timberbiz article Article in
Eden Magnet
|
National Institute for Forest Products Innovation centre in
Gippsland grants |
$4 million |
Australian and Victorian governments are contributing $1.89
million to these successful projects, which is being matched
by about $2 million of funding and inkind contributions from
the forestry industry and research agencies
https://duniam.com.au/gippsland-forestry-research-drives-national-innovation/
|
Budget 2021-22 |
$12.5 million |
The funding includes $10.6 million for Regional
Forestry Hubs (new
Hubs in Eden NT),
$1
million for a feasibility study into an Australia-wide National
Institute for Forest Products Innovation and delivery of
Plantation Development Concessional Loans
https://www.miragenews.com/12-7-million-to-support-growth-and-innovation-558804/
|
Bushfire Recovery Fund |
$40 million |
22 December 2020 "14 successful
applicants for the Forestry Recovery Development Fund, which
will provide $40 million in grant funding to help the
forestry industry to recover from the devastating bushfires
last summer"
https://ausfpa.com.au/wp-content/uploads/2020/12/40million-in-Federal-forest-recovery-funding.pdf
|
Bushfire Recovery Funding |
$1,050,000 |
3 November
2020.
$1,050,000 for the expansion of Wood Pellet
Production Line, Eden, NSW.
This project is for the installation of a raw material wood
fibre collection bunker and walking floor, biomass dryer and
heat plant, raw material storage silo and a larger higher
capacity wood pellet production plant (larger than existing
pellet line) and automatic bagging line.
https://jimmolan.com/2020/11/03/eden-monaro-nsw-bushfire-recovery-boosted-with-funding-for-local-projects/ |
Bushfire Recovery Funding |
$180,500 |
3 November
2020.
$180,500 for Pallet Collar Production Line
Upgrade in Eden, NSW. This
project will fund the installation of an upgraded new pallet
collar production line and new equipment, and fit a roof
mounted fire suppression sprinkler system to prevent against
bushfire ember attack.https://jimmolan.com/2020/11/03/eden-monaro-nsw-bushfire-recovery-boosted-with-funding-for-local-projects/
|
Bushfire Recovery Funding |
$945,240
|
3 November
2020.
$945,240 for a power upgrade for major SEFE
Industry Development in Edrom, NSW. The
project will replace, upgrade and/or adapt the damaged Eden
export chip facility. New developments and restoring the
existing processing capacity with associated job retention
and job-creating projects requires increased electricity
capacity load. This project seeks to provide the necessary
infrastructure to upgrade the site power distribution
network.https://jimmolan.com/2020/11/03/eden-monaro-nsw-bushfire-recovery-boosted-with-funding-for-local-projects/
|
Maryvale rail siding Gippsland upgrade (Australian
Paper) |
$3.5 m |
Victorian
Minister for Ports and Freight Melissa Horne:
"$3.5m works will ensure products from Australian Paper’s
Gippsland mill will continue to be sent by rail for years to
come."
https://www.miragenews.com/major-works-to-keep-freight-moving-in-gippsland/
|
Forestry Recovery Development Fund
(announced again) |
$40 million |
Grants between $1 million and $5 million to
help industry recover from the devastating summer bushfires.
1 September 2020
https://minister.awe.gov.au/duniam/media-releases/%2440m-forestry-recovery-fund
|
National Institute for Forest Products
Innovation (NIFPI) centre in Gippsland |
$2 million |
Joint media release:
Senator Jonno Duniam, Assistant Minister for
Forestry and Fisheries + Darrren Chester MP, Member for
Gippsland. Forest
products innovation centre to drive forestry research in
Gippsland.
15 July 2020
https://minister.awe.gov.au/duniam/media-releases/nifpi-centre-gippsland |
Regional Forestry Hubs, Gippsland Victoria
and Central West NSW forestry industries |
$2.2 million |
Supporting the development
of Regional Forestry Hubs in Gippsland, Victoria and Central
West NSW
29 June 2020
https://minister.awe.gov.au/duniam/media-releases/regional-forestry-hubs-gippsland-central-west-nsw |
Forestry Recovery Development Fund |
$40 million |
Eden-Monaro by-election announcement 23
June 2020: “$40 million Forestry Recovery
Development Fund to secure and create jobs....to
future-proof with innovative investments in new or existing
facilities and technology, or assisting in transitioning to
smarter, more efficient practices that value-add along the
supply-chain."
https://www.pm.gov.au/media/rebuilding-relief-australias-primary-producers
+
https://minister.awe.gov.au/duniam/media-releases/morrison-government-taking-action-support-forestry-industry-wake-bushfires |
Forestry Transport Assistance |
$15 million |
Part of the
National Bushfire Industry Recovery Package
11 May 2020
https://www.pm.gov.au/media/boost-bushfire-recovery |
Videos to promote Australia’s logging
industry as environmentally sustainable |
$94,875 |
Videos
aimed at promoting Australia’s
logging industry as environmentally sustainable, part of the
Australian forestry industry ‘the ultimate renewable’
2019 campaign. |
NSW Supply Chain Support Grants —
Forestry bushfire recovery |
Upper limit of $6m per applicant for woodchip
storage and $120,000 for others. |
Financial assistance to forestry businesses that have been
impacted by the bushfires from 31 August 2019
https://www.nsw.gov.au/bushfire-industry-recovery-package/supply-chain-support-grants-forestry |
Heyfield Australian Sustainable Hardwoods
|
$3 million |
New $3 million timber manufacturing plant.
Federal Government funding for the project was provided
through the $20 million Regional Jobs and Investment
Package. 20 March 2020 |
Queensland Cypress Supplies, Mungallala |
$250,000 |
Grant from the Rural Economic
Development (RED) to help fund expansion of business
and create job growth, " including loggers, truck drivers,"
in regional areas August 2019
http://timberandforestryenews.com/wp-content/uploads/Issue-572.pdf
|
Pentarch Logistics Pty Ltd |
$3 million |
Design, installation and commissioning of
a briquette plant to compress and package high-value wood
fibre products from forestry processing residues and waste
https://www.dpi.nsw.gov.au/about-us/media-centre/releases/2019/successful-forest-innovation-project-unveiled |
Australian Paper |
$475,000 |
Australian Paper Recovery $2.5 million paper
sorting facility in Truganina
https://www.premier.vic.gov.au/opening-a-new-recycling-facility-in-melbournes-west/ |
Forestry pilot program for North-West
Tasmania |
$12.5 million |
Regional "forestry hub" pilot program NW
Tasmania Feb
15 2019
https://www.theadvocate.com.au/story/5907245/feds-funding-north-west-forestry/?fbclid=IwAR00aZ23QBUOwRWqUejV3Nbd_f6wKKyB868vQWq780xlVDHp6RLOXDDiQoU
|
National Institute for Forest Products
Innovation (NIFPI) the Launceston centre |
$5.5 million |
Commonwealth/ State funding for the
inaugural round of research projects funded by NIFPI
http://www.richardcolbeck.com.au/press-releases 23
November 2018 |
Boral Timber. Grant from Australian
Renewable Energy Agency (ARENA) to investigate a
‘second-generation’ biofuels refinery.
|
$500,000 |
The project will use waste sawmill
residues from the Boral Timber Hardwood Sawmill at Herons
Creek near Port Macquarie.
https://arena.gov.au/assets/2018/08/ARENA-Media-Release_Boral-Timber-to-turn-sawmill-residues-into-biodiesel.pdf
|
NSW Forest Industries Innovation
Fund |
Loans up to $3 million per applicant |
https://www.raa.nsw.gov.au/assistance/forest-industries-innovation-fund
More information at
https://www.raa.nsw.gov.au/assistance/forest-industries-innovation-fund/forest-industries-innovation-fund-faqs
|
Eden timber industry "investment" by NSW
State Government |
$12.4 million |
Bega MP Andrew
Constance quoted in
Eden Magnet 22 Aug 2018 announced a $12.4m
"investment" for the Eden timber industry. Of this, $10m
would be income support (if required) for Blue
Ridge Hardwoods in case of job losses. The remaining
$2.4m would be allocated to operations of the mill over
the following 12 months.
|
NSW Budget 2018 |
$71.8 million |
"Budget delivers historic investment in
forestry"
|
National Forest Industries Plan |
$20 million |
"$20 million for forest industries a
welcome Budget injection"
https://www.timberbiz.com.au/20-million-for-forest-industries-a-welcome-budget-injection/
|
Gippsland Logging and Earthmoving |
$762,795 |
Project
in Morwell to make bioenergy pellets from sawdust and
residue used for heating, animal bedding and absorbant
products. Sounds like a pellet plant.
https://darrenchester.com.au/20-million-to-create-more-than-1200-new-jobs-in-gippsland/
|
Australian Sustainable Hardwoods, Heyfield
mill |
$1.2 million |
Twin
band saw value recovery project to maximize the recovery of
timber and minimise sawdust and wood chip waste.
https://darrenchester.com.au/20-million-to-create-more-than-1200-new-jobs-in-gippsland/
|
Forestry Corporation of NSW |
$750,000 |
Project assessing the North
Coast private native forest north from Newcastle.
January 2018
|
Institute of Foresters of Australia for
'Futures Leaders' program Nov 2017 |
$205,000 |
From the Turnbull Government's $5 million
Leadership in Agricultural Industries Fund. A grant to boost
the lobbying capacity of the logging industry.http://minister.agriculture.gov.au/ruston/Pages/Media-Releases/-Investing-in-leadership-in-our-fisheries-and-forestry-industries.aspx
|
Forestry Tasmania losses 2004 to 2017 |
$1 billion |
Since its peak in 2004 it has lost over $1
billion from forestry activities.
http://tasfintalk.blogspot.com.au/2017/11/forestry-tasmanias-final-report.html
|
Heyfield Timber Mill, Australian
Sustainable Hardwoods |
$62 million |
$50m for purchase, all up $62m. Victorian Government buys mill. "Heyfield
Timber Mill Secured" more
|
Farm Forestry projects |
$200,000 |
Subtropical Farm Forestry Association and
Specialty Timber Growers Inc. For the two groups to "assist
their members to better promote their products and use
research to establish best practice in timber production and
processing."
more |
Australian Paper waste to energy project |
$5 million |
Federal and Victoria governments
committed $2.5m each to Australian Paper for a total of $7.5
million in funding towards an" innovative waste to energy
project"
click |
National Institute for Forest Products
Innovation |
$12 - 14 million |
$4M from Commonwealth, Tasmanian 2017-18 State Budget for National
Institute for Forest Products Innovation node, Launceston,
providing a total of $12 - 14 m.
http://ausfpa.com.au/media-releases/tas-government-commits-2m-for-forest-products-innovation/
|
Biomass power station, Collie, WA |
$30 million |
Election promise by WA Labor Leader,
Mark McGowan January 2017
https://www.markmcgowan.com.au/news/mark-mcgowan-unveils-wa-labors-plan-for-collie-preston-1290 |
Forestry Marketing and Research and
Development Services Act 2007, s. 9(1) – |
$60.914million |
2016/7
- 2020/21 Payments
and matching payments to an industry services body and
Commonwealth administration expenses. Source:
http://www.agriculture.gov.au/SiteCollectionDocuments/about/budget/2017-18/2017-18-pbs-dawr-01.pdf
|
National Institute for Forest Products
Innovation |
$4million |
In 2017/18 Budget
http://ausfpa.com.au/media-releases/budget-honours-4m-pledge-for-forest-products-innovation/
|
National Partnership on mechanical fuel
load reduction trials |
$500,000 |
http://www.agriculture.gov.au/SiteCollectionDocuments/about/budget/2017-18/2017-18-pbs-dawr-01.pdf
|
Forest and Wood Products Australia |
$900,000 |
Project "to apply Natural Capital
Accounting on forestry, cotton and fisheries
enterprises."
http://www.camdencourier.com.au/story/4663179/big-forestry-project-launched-in-wauchope/
|
National Institute for Forest Products
Innovation
|
$4m ($12m when matched by State and
industry funding) |
2016 Coalition election promise
for 2 nodes in Launceston and Mt Gambier.
http://andrewnikolic.com/2016/05/launceston-hub-in-12-million-investment-in-forestry-rd |
2016 coalition election promise:
agroforestry R&D project |
$520,000 |
TREE-MENDOUS NEW R&D PROJECT
http://www.darrenchester.com.au/media-room/1804-tree-mendous-new-r-d-project
|
Victorian State Government grant to Ryan
and McNulty Saw Millers, Benalla |
$900,000 |
|
NSW Forestry Corporation - subsidy for
log haulage to compensate for the creation of Flora
reserves, Bermagui, Murrah, Mumbulla and Tanja, NSW far
south coast |
$2.5 million |
This grant comes from the NSW
Environmental Trust. Announced by NSW Environment Minister
Speakman 1 March 2016
http://www.environment.nsw.gov.au/news/nsw-government-protects-south-coast-koalas-and-local-timber-industry
|
Forest and Wood Products Australia |
$4.7 million over 4 years |
Australian Government matching voluntary
contributions to Forest and Wood Products Australia (FWPA)
for "investment in innovation" December 16, 2015 |
Forestry and Forest Products Committee Dinner, 18/2/2015
Melbourne |
$110 (including $38 for drinks |
http://parlinfo.aph.gov.au/parlInfo/search/display/display.w3p;adv=yes;db=CHAMBER;id=chamber%2Fhansardr%2F3aef5f9d-aa5b-4d1d-98d0-fa5f25d3d3d7%2F0258;orderBy=_fragment_number,doc_date-rev;page=1;query=Dataset%3Ahansardr,hansardr80;rec=5;resCount=Default
|
Hub for forestry research
University of Tasmania
|
$3.6 Million |
"UTAS to become hub for forestry
research" 20 May 2015
Senator Richard Colbeck, Parliamentary Secretary to
the Minister for Agriculture,
http://goo.gl/d53HP5
Govt funding via
Australian Research Council 2015 round of Industrial
Transformation Research Program (ITRP) total value to about
$14 million. The project is a collaboration between industry
partners including Greening Australia (Tasmania), SFM
Environmental Solutions, Forico, Forestry Tasmania, Island
Workshop, FWPA and Neville-Smith Forest Products.
|
Forest
Stewardship Council. Auditors. (Tasmanian Government ) |
$113,000
|
http://www.themercury.com.au/news/politics/forestrys-480000-consultants-splurge/news-story/edc1d13caa9f04c213acc2021c3da506 |
Forest
Stewardship Council (Tasmanian Government )
High Conservation Value assessment of forests. |
$15,000
|
http://www.themercury.com.au/news/politics/forestrys-480000-consultants-splurge/news-story/edc1d13caa9f04c213acc2021c3da506 |
Transport subsidy for trucking woodchips
from the southern forests to the Bell Bay port. Tasmania
|
$6 million a year |
http://www.abc.net.au/news/2014-10-15/macquarie-point-named-as-preferred-southern-tas-woodchip-port/5815398
|
Trade Mission to China and Japan,
April, 2015 |
$41 992.41 (including $10,918 for dinners and
drinks |
http://goo.gl/KpXs3g"Sustainable forestry highlighted
during delegation to Japan and China",
29 April 2015
Senator Richard Colbeck, Parliamentary
Secretary to the Minister for Agriculture. Delegates were
Mr Ross Hampton—Chief Executive Officer, Australian Forest
Products Association • Dr Bill Hurditch—Principal, Fifth
Estate • Dr Alastair Woodard—Consultant, Forest and Wood
Products Australia • Mr Simon Kang—Executive Director, Ta
Ann Australia China Source:
http://www.aph.gov.au/Parliamentary_Business/Senate_Estimates/rratctte/estimates/index |
Tasmania: Bio-fuels and bio-energy study,
May 2015 |
$750,000 over four years |
Tasmania Liberal Government.
Forests to fuel the state
http://www.themercury.com.au/news/tasmania/forests-to-fuel-the-state/story-fnj4f7k1-1227368946884
|
Bio-fuels in the Dorset and Huon
municipalities, Tasmania May 2015 |
$200,000 |
Tasmania Liberal Government.
Forests to fuel the state
http://www.themercury.com.au/news/tasmania/forests-to-fuel-the-state/story-fnj4f7k1-1227368946884
|
$100 million rural research and
development (R&D) grants program |
$100 Million |
Agriculture Minister Barnaby Joyce
16/10/2014
http://www.timberbiz.com.au/dtn/details.asp?ID=2693
|
Boral Wood Supply buy-back, June 2014 -
north coast wood supply from NSW Forestry Corporation |
$8.55 million |
This should be viewed as a subsidy because Boral admitted in
its 2014 annual report that it got $8.55M for doing
something that was good for its bottom line anyway, with or
without the buy-back.
Page13 makes it clear that Boral’s business was adversely
affected by competition from imports and a drop in demand:
Boral "Renegotiated hardwood timber supply from Forestry
Corporation of NSW to better
align with demand."
and further in:
"Boral has agreed to accept a 50,000 m3 per annum reduction
in its timber allocation for the next nine years. This will
support a more sustainable
long-term outcome for Boral’s Hardwood timber business "
http://goo.gl/xYNvm2
|
Australian Sustainable Hardwoods Heyfield
mill,
Regional Development Victoria grant 2013 |
$650,000 |
Grant to help buy the high value
equipment the mill owners will now take to Tasmania with
them. |
Forest
Industry Structural Adjustment Program (FISAP) over past 10
years |
$58.44
Million |
Commonwealth
Parliamentary Library |
Dinner for
national industry lobby group, National Association of
Forest Industries, 21 March 2011 |
$10,000 |
Senate
Question on Notice 221 |
Trip to
China for Industry Promotion by National Association of
Forest Industries 2010/11 |
$86,200 |
Timber
Communities Australia, industry lobby group shop front
|
$94,000 |
Forest and Wood Products Australia research grants program
2009-11 |
$18.63
Million |
Losses by
State Government logging agencies in NSW, Victoria, WA and
Tasmania on native forest logging
|
average of $14 Million
EACH YEAR in NSW. Similar amounts in other States |
NSW losses
since 2010
see |
Access to
forest resource and underpriced log royalties. |
This is
partly covered by logging agency losses (above), but
otherwise not calculated. |
Grant for
industry promotion to National Association of Forest
Industries 2010/11 |
$16,740
|
Senate
Question on Notice 221
|
Industry
Development grant to National Association of Forest
Industries 2010/11 |
$160,000 |
Exemption
from local government rates for production forests owned by
corporatized State Government logging agencies.
|
$15 Million
EACH YEAR in NSW. |
Based on
estimate by Bega Valley Shire Council |
Damage to
federal/ state/ council roads by log trucks. License fees do
not cover the cost to the roads of damage done.
|
A log truck
pays only a few times the rego of a car, but does many times
the damage to roads |
http://www.harryrclarke.com/2009/04/19/road-maintenance-externalities/ |
Crucible Carbon. Grant to develop
pyrolysis using native forest wood for burning in power
stations, 2008 |
$250,000 |
Department of Industry "Commercial Ready"
Grant scheme
http://www.proteomics.com.au/wp-content/uploads/2014/03/CommercialReadyGrantAgreementssignedin07_08_July_0820080806031608.pdf
Crucible Carbon now produces biochar to be burned in
co-generation at the Vales Point Power Station. |
2010 Crucible Carbon Pyrolysis
federal grant for "Taking the Crucible Carbon Pyrolysis
technology to a ‘sales ready’ position. |
$685,099 |
Using native forest wood in a "production
facility that demonstrates commercial scale operations for
the conversion of timber industry biomass residues to gas
suitable for generating on-site heat and power at wood
processing plants. "http://www.industry.gov.au/AboutUs/LegalandLegislativeReporting/Grants/Grants2010/Pages/default.aspx |
2011/12 Research support from the Tom
Farrell Institute at the University of Newcastle. |
$2.7 million |
University of Newcastle.
Annual-Report-2011-12.pdf "we were awarded a grant from
the Biodiversity Fund: “Stepping .....pyrolysis
technology for converting biomass residues into renewable
energy ." |
Nippon Paper. Victoria and Australian governments - grant for
de-inked pulp plant at Australian Paper pulp and paper mill,
Maryvale, Victoria.
11 October
2012
|
$9.5
million |
http://www.manmonthly.com.au/news/government-grants-$9-5m
for pulp plant construction |
Nippon Paper, Maryvale Mill (Australian Paper). Victorian
Government grant toward recycling plant project March 2013
|
$3
million |
http://www.russellnorthe.com.au/LiteratureRetrieve.aspx?ID=139007 |
Services,
such as “education” undertaken on behalf of the industry as
a whole by either State forestry agencies or the portfolio
department, such as Primary Industries and Small Business in
NSW |
$1.5
Million EACH YEAR in NSW |
Question on
Notice NSW Parliament |
ForestWorks, an industry body for its
National
Workforce
Development
Fund
(NWDF)
and Enterprise
Based
Productivity
Places
Program
(EBPPP)
2011/12 |
$5.2 Million |
Commonwealth
Parliamentary Library |
Damage to
waterways caused by erosion and siltation may be difficult
to quantify
|
Impossible
to quantify |
No
calculation available |
Carbon
costs avoided. Exemption of logging from the carbon pricing
scheme.
|
$362
Million EACH YEAR for Eden chipmill logging alone |
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Loss of
biodiversity/ environmental damage, including the death,
injury and suffering of forest mammals, birds and reptiles.
|
What price
can you put on a dead koala or Powerful Owl? |
Impossible
to quantify. |
Greater
bushfire risk due to drier, denser, even aged, even height
regrowth forest.
|
Difficulty
to quantify |
No
calculation available
|
Remediation of marine environments due to introduction of
exotic marine organisms from ballast water of woodchip
carriers
|
Exotic
marine organisms are in all Australia’s woodchip ports
|
Diesel Fuel
Rebate claimed by logging contractors 2007+ |
$60+
Million over the last 5 years |
Commonwealth
Parliamentary Library |
2010
Government election commitment for a $20 million assistance
package for Tasmanian forest contractors and their employees
(not part of the Tasmanian Intergovernmental Agreement)
|
$20 Million |
ALP election
promise 2010 |
The Forest
Industry Climate Change Research Fund and other grants for
bio-energy research and/or development. 2008-11
|
$4.7
Million |
Commonwealth
Parliamentary Library |
Biodiversity Fund grants to State Forest logging agencies
2012/13
|
$2.5
Million |
Tasmanian
Forest
Intergovernmental
Agreement
funding
from
Federal
and
State Governments
2010-11
|
$338
Million (Commonwealth)
$56.4
Million (State) |
Tasmania:
additional Commonwealth funding May 2013 |
$7 Million |
Tasmanian
Forest
Contractors
Exit
Assistance
Program
2010-11 |
$17
Million |
Tasmanian
Forest
Contractors
Financial
Support Program
2010-11 |
$5.4
million |
Climate
change
mitigation
research,
2008
and 2011 |
$1.4
million |
Climate
change
adaptation
research,
2008 and
2011
|
$3.6
million |
National Bushfire Mitigation Programme to
reduce the impact of bushfires, including fuel reduction
programs and long-term bushfire mitigation strategies
(2014-15 Budget). |
$15 million
$1.5M pilot projects announced March 2015 |
http://www.richardcolbeck.com.au/clients/richard/downloads/item
632/140514_committed_to_strong_and_
sustainable_forestry_industry_.pdf
Announcement of pilot
http://goo.gl/6FppKG |
Victorian government grant, 2001 |
$1 million |
|