This bill represents a fundamental attack on conservation values, on nature, on our public protected lands and our indigenous forests, nature's cathedrals: our kauri, rimu, beech, kahikatea, mataī, and podocarp forests. The Green Party opposed the bill on which this is based—the Hon Nick Smith's West Coast Wind-blown Timber (Conservation Lands) Bill—in June 2014, which was pushed through the House under urgency with no chance for select committee consideration and no chance for public submissions, even though it affected public land. 