Page 3576 - Week 10 - Wednesday, 18 September 2019
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Wood heaters are nice but we live in a community, and on those cold winter nights where we get those inversions the excessive use of wood heaters can lead to people ending up in our emergency department because of the impact that the particulates coming from wood heaters have. I do not want to pick on individual people but, as a community, that is why we talk so much about the need to remove wood-fired heaters, because of the impact they have on vulnerable people in our community, not to mention some of the issues around the harvesting of the wood that occurs in the region.
With all those points in mind, I have an amendment to Ms Cody’s motion. I have been advised by the Clerk that I need to seek leave to move it. I seek leave to move the amendment.
Leave granted.
MR RATTENBURY: I move the amendment circulated in my name:
Omit all words after “notes”, substitute:
“(a) the importance of protecting native forests in Australia;
(b) the oversupply of softwood timber in Australia, making it unnecessary to log native forests;
(c) that re-establishing Ingledene Forest as a working plantation forest provides opportunities for job creation, recreation, and supports a sustainable plantation forestry industry in the ACT;
(d) the importance of improving the sustainability of building materials to assist the ACT to move towards zero net emissions, and to reduce the broader impact buildings have on sustainability and emissions outside the ACT’s border;
(e) plantation grown wood products can form part of the solution to improving building material sustainability, provided they are genuinely sustainable, taking into account issues such as the source of the wood, the distance it is transported, etc; and
(f) a variety of alternative sustainable building products have been developed or are emerging in the industry, such as 100 percent recycled plastic trusses and beams; and
(2) calls on the ACT Government to investigate the use of sustainable products in government infrastructure projects, and develop sustainability guidelines for the sustainable use of building materials in the ACT, as required under the Building Act 2004.”.
The amendment emphasises the importance of protecting native forests but also notes that it is important to improve the sustainability of building materials because we want to reach net zero emissions here in the ACT but we also need to increase efforts to reduce the emissions created outside the ACT.
It notes that there are a variety of alternative sustainable building products that have been developed or are emerging in the industry—and I already mentioned the
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