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Updated: June 04, 2010
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Gunns is logging the Upper Florentine (left) and is pushing ahead with its Tamar pulp mill.Gunns Ltd, Australia’s largest logging company, wants to build a polluting pulp mill in Tasmania. It’s crucial to stop this out-dated pulp mill. It would be a disaster for the environment, communities and the economy. Whilst Gunns has stated publicly the mill will be 100% plantation fed from startup, they have a wood supply deal with Forestry Tasmania for at least 1 million tones of native forest wood every single year for the next 20 years! The State government used a corrupted assessment process to approve the mill. So far over 20 leading banks and paper companies have refused to fund the project and funding has not been secured.
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| Tasmania’s future threatened – pulp mill impacts |
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The Wilderness Society is campaigning to stop Gunns Ltd building a massive pulp mill in the Tamar Valley. This pulp mill will be a disaster for our forests; our oceans and beaches; our marine life and fisheries; our wildlife; our water; the air of the Tamar Valley; our climate; and our economy. |
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The Wilderness Society has joined with other groups and individuals under the banner of Our Common Ground, in an attempt to solve the conflict over Tasmania’s forests. Our Common Ground has released a series of television advertisements, including one highlighting the abuses of democratic processes which occurred in Tasmania as part of the shambolic pulp mill approval. |
Pulp Mill Updates
- Tasmanian Forest and Forest Industry Talks: Questions and Answers - August 25, 2010
- Seeking a solution for Tasmania's world-class forests - August 12, 2010
- Tassie forest talks seek a sustainable solution - July 06, 2010
Environment and forest industry representatives have been talking informally to explore ways to resolve the conflict over native forests in Tasmania and protect both jobs and native forests. Find out more about the industry talks and what is happening now.
Australia is home to some of the most magnificent forests on Earth. And these forests are able to store massive amounts of carbon. They have a huge role to play in solutions to climate change. This solution is now within our reach. You can help us achieve forest protection and a major climate solution by signing this petition.
The Wilderness Society, along with ACF and Environment Tasmania, has been meeting with representatives from forest industry groups to seek a sustainable resolution to the conflict over forests in Tasmania.
Pulp Mill Media Releases
- GUNNS' end to 1080 poison use a welcome step forward - June 22, 2010
- Pulp Mill dead in the water as John Gay severs all ties with Gunns - May 27, 2010
- Robin Gray retires from Gunns board but maintains control of major subsidiary - May 06, 2010
The Wilderness Society today welcomed Gunns' announcement that it would immediately end the use of the controversial poison 1080 in all its forestry operations and congratulated the company for this decision.
The controversial Bell Bay pulp mill is "dead in the water" following the sudden announcement by Gunns Ltd this evening that chairman John Gay will sever all ties with the company and its subsidiaries, The Wilderness Society's executive director Alec Marr said.
Today's retirement of Gunns Ltd Director and ex-Premier Robin Gray should have signalled an end to a dark era in Tasmania's history, but instead it is being used as a smokescreen to divert attention from his appointment to a major subsidiary of the company
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