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Woodland and Forestry

Hot air over forest leasing

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Details: Thursday, 19 February 2009 11:28 Tamsin Morris Hits: 514

The debate over the Government's controversial plans to offer long term leases on parts of the national forest estate has continued to heat up over recent weeks.

In a slightly ill-tempered debate at Holyrood on January 29th, Sarah Boyack MSP proposed a motion that the proposals be re-considered and dropped from the Climate Change Bill. Whilst the Labour, Lib Dem and Green MSPs supported her, the Scottish National Party and Conservative MSPs were against her suggestions. You can find the full text of the parliamentary debate here.

Now that Michael Russell has been re-shuffled to the office of the First Minister, it'll be up to his successor, Roseanna Cunningham, to steer a way around this political hot potato.