Key comments resonate with wood audienceFriday 28 Mar 2008 Earlier this week National Party leader John Key was invited to officially open Lockwood Homes new ECOSMART home series and showhome in Rotorua. There was a large gathering for the event which was the launch for a revolutionary new series of eco-friendly solid time home designs. The gullwing design home incorporates many environmentally friendly and high-tech features including solar hot water heating and energy generation with the ability to feed electricity back to the national grid.Mr Key congratulated the Lockwood team on their environmental awareness and especially the high timber content of the new home series. In his speech to the audience of invited dignitaries, officials, architects and key suppliers Mr Key made reference to his partys recognition for government to help businesses promote New Zealands advantages in being environmentally-friendly in respect to climate change issues. He added that a future negotiating tactic for the country at the Kyoto Protocol table could be to argue for retention of carbon credits when trees are felled for solid timber applications where the end-product was, in the case of a solid timber home such as a Lockwood, storing the carbon for a considerable period of time. Mr Key qualified the comment later pointing out that this would be something that would need to be negotiated by New Zealand officials for any future agreements and Protocol commitment periods. |
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