Why is the WA state government acceding to Forest Products Commission Plan to double native forest logging by up to 50% for such uses as firewood, woodchips and biomass burning?

AFCA finds it interesting that the FPC want to increase jarrah logging by possibly 100,000 cu metres, an increase of 50%, as well as increasing logging of marri and karri. It says it wants these increases ‘dependent’ on contracts. In 2016 it admitted that jarrah could be great for emerging new markets in Japan as Japan substitutes ‘biomass’ for nuclear energy.

Is this what the ‘contracts’ will be, at least partly, about ?  Burning the last precious remnants of WA native forests for a short term ‘psuedo’ renewable energy scam?

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