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1. From below newspiece,

   ‘Tasmanian Premier Paul Lennon said he also promised to “massively” reduce clear felling, phasing out the practice so no more than 20 per cent of old growth will be clear felled by 2010.’

   Watering down, contradiction or what?  Phasing out while continuing to do it, perfect sense there.

   SMH Newspiece,
   [url=“http://www.smh.com.au/news/National/PM-announces-250m-forests-plans/2005/05/13/1115843351502.html”]
   PM announces $250m forests plan[/url]

   Posted by Ben C  on  14/05/05  at  02:50 AM

2. Devastating, but what else could be expected from this rotton to the core Federal Government, and the Tasmanian Labour Party.

   This is a crime against humanity, in an age of increasing climate change and water shortages, a more useless policy could not have been conceived.
   Imagine what could have been done with the 240,000 hectares Mark Latham promised to protect and an $800 million dollar injection to the economy to boot. What dangerous incompetent fools run the place, and what complacency from the Tasmanian people to have allowed this to happen. (Excluding those many who speak out at great personal, physical and financial risk, such is the level of corruption in the state).

   You are the keepers of the oldest forests in the world, it is an honorable responsibility, and one that used wisely could have bought great prosperity to Tasmania.

   It is the people who have the power to ensure your elected government does not endanger life for human and animal alike in Tasmania.

   Time to use your rights.

   A sad day in history indeed.

   Posted by Ms Pickins  on  14/05/05  at  06:25 AM

3. Beazeley supporting this package in the hope of ending the desire to conserve high conservation value forests must be a part of his three election strategy.

   Posted by phill Parsons  on  14/05/05  at  07:08 AM

4. “We abuse land because we regard it as a commodity belonging to us. When we see land as a community to which we belong, we may begin to use it with love and respect. “
         - Aldo Leopold

   “To waste and destroy our natural resources, to skin and exhaust the land instead of using it so as to increase its usefulness, will result in undermining in the days of our children the very prosperity which we ought by right to hand down to them.”
         - Theodore Roosevelt

   “We won’t have a society if we destroy the environment.”
         -Margaret Mead

   Posted by Dave Groves  on  14/05/05  at  07:41 PM

5. Gunns has recently reduced its contractors to 80% of their volume of wood. We are told that the Japanese customers want less woodchip from Tasmania at the moment.

   Has this been driven by the quality of the material from the native forest, have the plantations from other countries provided a cheaper resources or is something being said about who makes pulp and who exports raw material.

   Such a reduction in output must affect the Gunns bottom line as well as its image in the community.

   For a company to make changes and move the processing closer to the point of production sets an example to all producers, the possibility that more of the profit from the production of paper can be accrued to the company through transformation.

   Indeed different markets open for sales of pulp, a concern for a raw material buyer.

   A little scurrilous and purely speculative of course.

   Posted by phill Parsons  on  15/05/05  at  10:29 PM