Environment
Is this the pulp mill John West would reject?
Dr Andrew Corbett
The proposed development by the Gunns Corporation of the Longreach (Bell Bay) Kraft Pulp Mill has been given “Project of State Significance” status by our State Government- and rightly so. At an estimated cost of $1,500,000,000 with a potential to inject a further $6,000,000,000 into the Tasmanian economy, this project has the potential to affect each Tasmanian in some way. It has also proven to be a very divisive issue. People vigorously disagree about the environmental impact, the economics, and the political integrity of both the project and process. We believe there is a need to consider this from one more perspective: a Christian perspective.
Tasmanian Times and John West …
The Mercury: Pastor lobbies against pulp mill
“The newspapers of this hemisphere were long mere vehicles of government intelligence, or expressions of the views and feelings of the ruling powers. Malice or humour, in the early days, expressed itself in what were called Pipes — a ditty, either taught by repetition or circulated on scraps of paper: the offences of official men were thus hitched into rhyme. Thus, the fear of satire checked the haughtiness of power’’. John West, History of Tasmania (1852)
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