Quote Originally Posted by Well Endowed View Post
http://www.nzherald.co.nz/nz/news/ar...ectid=12000666

$180m towards trees, aiming for 55m trees this year (of a total of 1b to be planted)
Have I got this right? Labour promised to plant 1 billion trees. Half of those trees are going to be planted by commercial operators as part of their established planting programme.

So labour are going to actually plant 1/2b trees. Now I have no idea how much it costs to plant a tree. But i'd have thought you wouldn't get any change out of $1 a tree to plant and establish. So half a billion trees = half a billion dollars.

And then a few years in, while busy planting, you have the first prune at what $0.50 a tree. So there another $1/4b

So by my reckoning Labour is looking at planting 120m trees for $180m. Lets call it 1/10th of theri promise