Mark Roberts
Delta
Tree Services Manager
SPEAKER BIO
Mark Roberts is a qualified arborist with over 30 years of national and international experience, he has spoken at over 30 conferences in 12 countries and his written works have been translated into three languages. He is the Tree Services Manager for Delta Utility Services in Dunedin, and he is currently moving houses which his cat finds very distressing.
TALK TITLE
Fall Distance Trees in a possible future; a question of tree regulations
ABSTRACT
‘Out of Zone Trees’ are the biggest threat utility arboriculture has faced in the last 145 years. Or are they? In this talk Mark Roberts will look at the key points of MBIE’s review of the Tree Regs. We’ll consider the problems, the players and the solutions. It is a complex problem and our problems are not ours alone.
In this presentation we shall look at the Tree Regs twenty years on - the Electricity (Hazards from Trees) Regulations 2003. We shall look at what Ministry of Business, Innovation, and Employment (MBIE) proposed in the latest of many reviews. We shall consider what the Electricity Engineers' Association (EEA) and the Electricity Networks Association (ENA) wish for, what NZ Arb suggested and then just because we can, I shall propose something completely different.