CPPA has Win on behalf of Farmers in Federal Court

G'day Agmates,

NSW farmer Peter Spencer head of the Constitutional Property Protection Association CPPA.

Today saw a Landmark win for all Australian Farmers affected by Land Clearing Legislation.

Peter Spencer and CPPA had filed an injunction in the Federal Court of Australia to stop the Federal government taking 74 million tonnes of carbon credits from farmers without compensation to meet their Kyoto Targets.

The value of those credits is between 1.85billion and 5.18billion dollars.

The Commonwealth failed in it's attempts to have the case dismissed.

The Commonwealth Governments legal team firstly moved to have to have the case "stuck out". When this did not succeed they then moved to have Peter Spencer post huge "security costs" with the court or else abandon the case.

In what a member of Peter Spencer's CPPA organization described as a "dirty little trick" the Commonwealth produced evidence of Mr Spencer's financial position, arguing that if he lost the case he had no money to cover court costs.

Mr Spencer's Barrister explained to the presiding judge that Mr Spencer was only in this financial position because the State Governments Vegetation Management Legislation had rendered his 14,000 acre property totally without value. Mr Spencer has had 80% of his property "locked up" and untouchable because for the Land Clearing restrictions.

The court dismissed both of the Commonwealths motions and ordered that Mr Spencer through his senior Barrister Dr John Walsh lodge a Statement of Claims to the court when the hearing resumes on the 19th of July.

Cobar farmer and CPPA activist Alastair McRobert told ABC News " The Commonwealth has colluded with State Governments to restrict the amount of vegetation the property owners can clear."

"This is all about locking the landscape up as a carbon sink on private land and the Federal Government taking the Carbon Credits to meets it's Kyoto target, Mr McRobert said".

A source within the CPPA told Agmates that Peter Spencer and the CPPA with very little money has achieved today what the NSW Farmers Association with their 'war chest" of 90million dollars said was impossible.

Rural Press Canberra reporter Lucy Skuthorp reported last week in the Land & Country Life Newspaper that the Federal Governments entire National Emissions Trading Scheme is on hold because of the CPPA's injunction in the Federal Court.

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Cheers,
Your Agmate - Steve
Agmates - 100% Pro Australian Farmers