Ms Sin?ad King:

A lot of the leases are up. Each farming agreement differs. Some are for 20 years and others for 35; it depends what contract was signed. The forestry laws changed in 2014. Initially, we were not informed of the law whereby we would have to replant with forestry once the contracts were up. We were told, as was my father in his case, that the land could be put back as farming land. We know the names of the people who told us that. We can give the committee that. There is a law that states forestry land has to be put back into forestry, but that was changed in 2014 to state it could be used for any energy source, including wind energy or solar energy. That is not in the initial contracts or agreements we signed. We were completely unaware of this.