Gunns' proposed pulp mill
Community opposition to Gunns' proposed pulp mill continues to growGunns Ltd, Australia’s largest logging company, is proposing to build a chlorine bleaching, native forest fed pulp mill in Tasmania. Stopping the pulp mill is crucial because it will be a disaster for climate change. It will be 80 per cent native forest-based, consuming an area of forest equivalent to 100,000 MCGs. Marine life, human health and other industries, including tourism, agriculture and fisheries are also threatened by this polluting development. The pulp mill has been approved for construction via inadequate, fast tracked approval processes that have ignored many of the key issues that concern the public. Funding has not been secured for the project, and public opposition continues to grow - it can still be stopped.
- Tasmania’s future threatened – pulp mill impacts
- Pulp Mill financially unviable
- Pulp mill fast-track assessment
The Wilderness Society is campaigning to stop Gunns Ltd building a massive native forest-fed 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.
Sign online – Yes! I want to protect our forests and stop climate fraud.
Gunns Ltd and the Tasmanian Government claim that the pulp mill will be a huge economic boon for Tasmania. However leading independent economists and financial analysts who have assessed the project have a very different view. The pulp mill poses a huge risk to the Tasmanian economy due to its predicted financial problems and heavy reliance on ongoing taxpayer subsidies.
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The fast-track assessment of the pulp mill has seen a corrupted process, special deals and broken promises. The result – a government ‘approval’ that ignored the major impacts of the project and a statewide call for the establishment of an Independent Commission against Corruption for Tasmania.
more »Pulp Mill Updates
- Public rally warns shareholders and investors against proposed pulp mill - August 26, 2008
- Burning native forests for power - a lifeline to the woodchippers - July 16, 2008
- Pulp Mill Back in Court - June 18, 2008
A huge rally on Saturday August 23 saw thousands of people march through Launceston in opposition to Gunns' proposed pulp mill sending a clear message to shareholders and companies considering supporting the carbon-polluting pulp mill - it will not be allowed to proceed.
Native forest bioenergy: bad for climate change and bad for our forests. In response to diminishing global demand for native forest woodchips, Australia’s native forest logging industry is pushing a particularly destructive power generation option.
The hearing of the legal challenge to the Federal government approval of Gunns’ controversial Tamar Valley pulp mill began in the Federal Court in Melbourne on 18 June 2008. The challenge, brought by the community group, Lawyers for Forests (LFF) is seeking to overturn the former Environment Minister, Malcolm Turnbull’s approval of the mill on 9 grounds.
Pulp Mill Events
- Footsteps for a pulp mill free future
Momentum is building to stop the pulp mill. Come to the Tamar
Valley in September, discover what impacts the proposed mill will have, and how
you can make a difference. The event is over three days, Friday 19th - Sunday 21st September.
Pulp Mill Media Releases
- Garrett gives Gunns another special deal - September 08, 2008
- Gunns reneges on signing up to Bartlett's Sovereign Risk November deadline - September 02, 2008
- Pulp mill on wrong side of Bartlett's "line in the sand" - August 29, 2008
In granting Gunns a further three months to obtain Federal Government approval for the Tasmanian pulp mill, Commonwealth Environment Minister Peter Garrett extends another lifeline to the project and does another special deal for the company that has repeatedly treated the government, the assessment process and the public with contempt.
Confusion over the status of the sovereign risk agreement for the Gunns pulp mill and the revelation that Gunns is refusing to sign the re-negotiated agreement should empower Premier David Bartlett to stand up for the Tasmanians he represents and deliver on his promise to withdraw all government support for the pulp mill.
The Wilderness Society says that Gunns’ latest delay in financing its proposed pulp mill had put the project on the wrong side of Tasmanian Premier Bartlett’s ‘line in the sand’ and that it is now time to end the pulp-mill farce altogether.
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