The National Environmental Statement for Plantation Forestry ( NESPF) will remove all the precautionary and protective regulations of the local councils and the Resource Management Act. This document can be approved by a select committee and does not need to go before Parliament.
It will allow the planting of GE trees and the replanting of existing forests with GE trees.
This is dangerous when the current state of research into how the genome works is still at the early stages of research, and is still at the closed laboratory stage. Our government has a duty of care to protect our land, our waterways, our ecology our environment, our economies and our society from GE and GMOs.
The Environmental Court found in favour of local precautionary and protective regulations on GE and GMOs. The NESPF will be going against this ruling.
Some members of the public have shown they are not aware of the threat inherent in GE and GMOs.
These are experimental organisms. We do not know what they will do or what threats they may have.