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"They should be paying for it": Kevin Humphries says farmers should be reimbursed. Photo: Tamara Dean
Farmers banned from clearing their land should be reimbursed and society must pay to save native plants and animals on private property, says the top environmental economist heading a shake-up of NSW's biodiversity laws.
In an interview with Fairfax Media, Neil Byron, who is leading the independent review,has given the first indication of potential changes to contentious rules governing land clearing and threatened species protection.
Senior Nationals MPs have been heavily criticised for linking land clearing laws to the death of NSW environment compliance officer Glen Turner, who was killed while carrying out his work near Moree in July.
Killed: Environmental compliance officer Glen Turner. Photo: Supplied
Dr Byronbacked comments by Nationals MP Kevin Humphries that if the community wants farmers to set aside productive land "they should be paying for it".
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"If we as a public want these things saved, we ... have to pay at least part of the costs," Dr Byron said, adding farmers should be encouraged to maintain land, not just set it aside.
"What frequently happens is having identified something of high importance, we then ignore it and let it degrade."
He said such reimbursement need not be "extraordinarily expensive to taxpayers" and might involve expanding biodiversity offset schemes, in which impacts from development on threatened species are offset by restoring equivalent biodiversity elsewhere.
The Philadelphia Land Bank, a nascent agency organized to streamline the redevelopment of thousands of Philadelphias vacant and tax-delinquent properties, releaseda draft of a strategic planon Wednesday recommending a number of goals the new body should pursue over the next five years.
The plan, which was written by a team led by Philadelphia-based Interface Studios, is the result of four months of analysis of data provided by various city agencies and meetings with dozens of advocacy groups and city officials who wrestled the Land Bank into existence.
The Land Bank board will solicit community feedback at a public hearing in mid-October and complete a final draft of the plan by the end of the month. The plan will then be sent to City Council for its approval.
Those whove followed the development of the Land Bank closely over the past few years wont find any major surprises in the draft plan. Its overarching goal is simple: to return vacant and tax delinquent property to productive reuse. Deceptively simple, perhaps, given that the Land Bank itself wouldnt have been created if those few words didnt represent an intricate, elusive goal for Philadelphia and other cities around the country.
The Land Bank is intended to address the vacancy problem by consolidating ownership of city-owned properties, acquiring privately owned tax-delinquent properties, clearing tax liens and tangled titles, and selling or otherwise transferring properties in its inventory for development or other community uses. According to the plan, it will seek to promote new affordable and market-rate housing development, the creation of new businesses and the expansion of existing ones, the vitality of urban agriculture, and the availability of open space and green infrastructure.
As part of the strategic planning process, Interface Studioalong with partners Real Estate Strategies, Inc. and Lamar Wilson Associatesprovided an updated inventory of vacant and tax-delinquent parcels in Philadelphia.
Roughly 8,000 vacant parcels are currently under some form of public ownership in Philadelphia and not committed to a specific project.
Another 24,000 properties are vacant and tax-delinquent but privately owned, according to the plan.
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Oct. 3, 2014, 4 a.m.
THE elderly farmer accused of murdering Tamworth environment officer Glen Turner told his wife moments after the killing: I simply cracked. I didnt mean to kill him.
Ian Turnbull
THE elderly farmer accused of murdering Tamworth environment officer Glen Turner told his wife moments after the killing: I simply cracked. I didnt mean to kill him.
The explosive claim came during a failed NSW Supreme Court bail application yesterday for Croppa Creek farmer Ian Robert Turnbull, who allegedly killed Mr Turner in the line of duty during a dispute over land clearing.
Turnbull, 79, was denied bail because of the risk he would continue his vendetta against other workers if he was released.
Mr Turner had been investigating illegal land clearing on properties owned by Turnbulls son, Grant, and grandson Cory on July 29 when he was allegedly ambushed by Turnbull and shotmultiple times.
He allegedly told Mr Turner, Im an old man, I dont care, I can do whatever I want.
During the bail hearing, Turnbulls barrister Tony Bellanto, QC, argued that the threat had to be seen in the context of a long-term dispute over land clearing and the shooting was really a product of an unfortunate series of contacts with the deceased, but thats over now.
His wife of 55 years Robeena June Turnbull said he told her: I simply cracked. I didnt mean to kill him.
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Oct. 2, 2014, 4 a.m.
LOCAL tensions are running high ahead of the parliamentary debate on the divisive native vegetation bill that's expected to take place in the next fortnight.
Walgett farmer Cameron Rowntree
LOCAL tensions are running high ahead of the parliamentary debate on the divisive native vegetation bill that's expected to take place in the next fortnight.
The controversial Shooters and Fishers Party amendment was formed in consultation with NSW Farmers and was introduced in May this year.
The bill has faced repeated delays, divided the National Party and inflamed emotions in the wake of the alleged murder of environment officer Glen Turner over a land-clearing dispute in July.
Walgett farmer Cameron Rowntree said NSW Farmers was eager for changes to the "ridiculous" existing land-clearing laws.
"The definition of broadscale clearing has to change one tree is not broadscale clearing,"he said.
He said there was a disparity where residents of Mosman could take chainsaws to their trees because of a bushfire risk, while farmers were heavily restrained by legislation.
"We can't even take out one tree now that's a joke," he said.
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GOFFSTOWN Devriendt Farm, located at 178 South Mast Road in Goffstown, is preparing to expand onto a nearby 140-acre property, the latest evolution of the family-owned business.
Were trying to build the next generation [of our family business] and to have the capability to support that generation, said Lea Devriendt, who owns the farm with her husband, Dan. Finding that was awesome. You just dont find land like this around here anymore.
The family has been in the market to acquire new land for about five years, Devriendt said Tuesday. She and her husband finalized the sale of their new property last Friday. The property is on Story Road, adjacent to the Stonebridge Country Club, and was originally established as a farm in 1797.
Devriendt said that the land is mostly flat, making it ideal for farming. However, the property is mostly forested, and will require clearing before the land can be used for farming.
The Devriendts started their business in 1986, shortly after the births of their twin sons, Jesse and Jason. Both sons and their daughter, Erica, work for the farm with their parents.
We just grew tomatoes, and I peddled the tomatoes to the local delis and a couple of pizza places and stuff like that, Devriendt said. The couple would later have a portable farm stand near Goffstown High School and eventually bought their eight-acre property on South Mast Road in 1995.
In the Devriendts time in business, they have seen ups and downs.
Business 10 years ago was a lot better than it is today, Devriendt said. When we first started, we were doing a lot of produce and not so many flowers, and now were doing way more flowers than produce. We had a lot of wholesale accounts back then, and dont do hardly any wholesaling anymore, because we just dont have the product.
With their new land, the Devriendts hope to expand their operation, getting back into wholesale of their products, growing more chrysanthemums and having pick-your-own strawberries and pumpkins.
(Wed like it to be) more of a family destination, Devriendt said, adding that they would also like to have a corn maze on the new property. The strawberries are going to be the most important thing for us to get in right away, because thatll be the quickest turnaround for us.
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