how are they going to get the land, page-9

The mallee trees were selected after many years of research and selected not just for carbon sequestration but to the land and environment as a whole.

Looking at your pictures I would assume the nuts would have to be picked by hand. Very expensive in Australia which I am sure would cut margins.Hard to compete with India if a high labour element is involved. The benefit of the mallee tree is its a set and forget for the farmer. Its planted in strips (with fire breaks) and the farmer still does what he always has done with his land. Ie sits in his tractor and drives around a lot.

If the econmics are such that sandalwood is the way to go then i am sure COZ would go that way anyway.

I still don't see the two things really competing. There is still a hell of a lot of very ordinary land in Australia (big chunks of NSW,QLD and SA - as well as the Mallee region of Victoria). Assuming WA becomes the sandalwood capital of the world (as it once was)I can't see it taking all the suitable land available and pushing the mallee trees to the side.

Guess time will tell. But more than happy to be on the COZ bandwagon at the moment.