All the details of the Gunns’ pulp mill plan …
The site is located on the banks of the River Tamar and the water needed by the mill will be drawn from Curries River Dam. Two small streams are located within and adjacent to the proposed site and a number of streams may need to be crossed by the pipeline. In order to supply additional water to Curries River Dam, it is proposed to put a dam on Pipers River, to the east.
This is an excerpt from a 28-page document on Gunns plans for a pulp mill, lodged with the Department of Environment and Heritage on December 15.
Read the rest here:
Gunns pulp mill
(The Word document is probably best).
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julia weston
March 15, 2005 at 7:03 am
‘Expert’ opinion has been the catchcry uttered by every politician and bureaucrat in defence of the logging of South Sister.
Yet their ‘expert’ opinion relies primarily on only two reports: one from Dr. P. McIntosh, a soils and water ‘expert’ and another from Dr. Sandra Roberts a hydrologist. (A more recent one from a Dr. P. Lane, briefed to do a technical review of the reports, is not clear cut and even agrees on many points with one of our ‘experts’.) Even a grade 10 science student could see that the two former reports are flawed.
Yet our ‘expert’ opinion is denigrated and dismissed even though we have at least eight extremely renowned and credible scientists saying the opposite: that our water is at risk, there is danger of landslides, and that the protected species will not be protected.
And who reviews and discredits these? In the main, Dr. P. McIntosh. No wonder there is a united front to prevent an open hearing where all the evidence can be examined.
We have published most of these reports on our website http://www.southsister.org
Brenda Rosser
January 20, 2005 at 6:19 am
I have posted my submission on Gunns Ltd’s proposed pulp mill in Tasmania under the ‘forestry’ link (left hand side of webpage) at:
http://www.members.iinet.com.au/~rkildar1
The submission focuses and lists the very long history of fresh water contamination by pesticides and the almost complete breakdown of the regulatory and legal processes in Tasmania that are purported to keep this industry in check.
The document is 42 pages long and the associated Microsoft Powerpoint presentation can be downloaded also from the same page.
Extract:
“..I reiterate that Gunns Ltd proposes to use the existing UNSUSTAINABLE plantation base in Tasmania as feed stock for its proposed pulp mill – in addition to our already devastated native forests. It is for this reason that I urge the Federal Environment Minister to intervene and refuse Gunns Ltd referral. For the sake of our environment but even more compelling – for the sake of our SURVIVAL.
This is our story…”
Brenda Rosser
Pat Hess
January 19, 2005 at 10:31 am
What a laugh! .. if we could.
2 years ago I was living in NSW, and the small town was contemplating damming (damning alright) a very special creek .. well, they ALL are special. I went to a meeting armed with information from a TV programme, that interviewed an environmental expert, that showed how DAMS are NOT the way to go, how other methodogies should now be applied.. and why. It is important that their natural flow be presevered (underground information, as well as above).
This man is a TASMANIAN! (cant remember his name)
Betcha Gunns/Forestry didn’t employ a REAL expert to give them the advice they REALLY needed.. because it wouldn’t have been what they WANTED.
Probably the same ‘expert’ who advised ‘clearfelling’. The same ‘expert’ who advised the poisoning … the fire-bombing (someone ought to mole-out these bloody ‘experts’/advisory dudes.. expose their lack of imagination, skill and experience, vision, grey matter and their disregard for their own beautiful state.
Hey .. this is why the SLAPPS were enacted, because this was to be revealed. And many will say, this is just good business!!
Incidentally .. where was Tasmania’s RSPCA in all the animal deaths?? didn’t hear a word! … don’t they have any teeth either?… or guts.
Pat Hess