typingisnotactivism An interview with Dr Warwick Raverty … on the day Deputy Premier Kons announces SWECO PIC as the independent consultant chosen to assess the pulp mill proposal
WR: No. I’m just focusing on their record in the pulp and paper industry. I’ve not heard of them before. None of my colleagues at the CSIRO have heard of them before. Their reference list for the pulp and paper industry seems to be mainly around paper and cardboard manufacture. They’ve been involved in a minor way with four pulp mills, none on, as far as I can see, providing this sort of information on environmental suitability. And one of the mills that they designed equipment for is the now infamous Arauco Valdivia bleached kraft pulp mill in Chile which has had to be shut because it polluted RAMSAR wetlands and caused mass killings of swans.
