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TT-Line
& Spirit of Tasmania Ferries
Endorse Tasmania's Forest Practices Vandalism
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TT-Line & Spirit of Tasmania Ferries Endorse Tasmania's
Forest Practices Vandalism
via its Membership and Directorship of the TCT
for more see...
Fair-Trading.com |
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EMILY'S LETTER TO THE PM - Events
Tasmania Feedback (Emily is 13 years old).
"...... I am only a young person, but
hopefully, through this letter, you have felt
how I and many others feel and especially express
our feelings to you about this inhumane, savage,
and violent act." |
FROM SIMON - Events
Tasmania Feedback
" Brillaint site - the fact that the pollies
are reacting means that your message is obviously
working. Keep up the good work!
As visitors to the wilderness areas on a number
of occasions for my holidays, my family has added
tens of thousands of dollars to the Tassie economy.
Not any more! Until the government stops these
absurd practices, I won't be coming back! " |
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OUTRAGE AT TASMANIA'S FOREST PRACTICES, by Graham
Green, Timber
Workers for Forests Inc.
These logs would have grown into perfect sawlogs for the highest
value timber, given another 30 or 40 years. Instead, they
have been cut down before their prime to be exported by Forestry
Tasmania to make plywood in South Korea and China. Tasmanian
Timber
Workers for Forests is outraged that the timber industry has
shed 4000 jobs in the last decade yet we continue practices that
are nothing more than exporting more Tasmanian jobs and exporting
our future sawlog supply. The Koreans must be in awe of our stupidity
as they are poised to make a whole pile of cash from our premium
hardwood logs. MORE... |
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TASMANIA IMPORTS PULP FROM INDONESIA, by Geoff Law,
The
Wilderness Society - Tas
The Burnie papermill does not even use Tasmanian logs. It imports
pulp from Indonesia! It closed its pulpmill in 1998 –
less than a year after the signing of the Regional Forest Agreement.
(The RFA was supposed to provide security, investment and jobs.)
Meanwhile, on the wharf opposite the disused pulpmill sit piles
of woodchips
awaiting export. And there is also usually a pile of whole plantation
logs for export to Korea. That’s why the Burnie wharf epitomises
both the absurdity and the obscenity of Tasmanian forestry policies.
It symbolises our wasted resources and opportunities. We export
our oldgrowth forests as woodchips.
We replace our native forests with plantations. We export our
plantations as whole logs. We close a pulpmill. We then import
pulp. Can it get any sillier? MORE... |
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