Stop the fast-track mill

Rally and march to stop the fast-track mill

City Park, Launceston
12 noon, Saturday 16 June
Rain, hail or shine!

Meanwhile, Friday:

And, Monday:

Gunns’ proposed pulp mill will be a disaster for Tasmania. It will be a disaster for forests, for wildlife, for the air that we breathe, for water, for Bass Strait, for the economy, for Tasmania’s planning system, and for local residents. To find out more, go to:
http://www.lists.wilderness.org.au/lt.php?id=Nh4ACgYGCwkHTlwAAUtSVgoDVw%3D%3D

Yet the Lennon Government is totally devoted to fast-tracking this pulp mill. Meanwhile, in an election year, the federal government must decide whether or not to approve the mill!

You can make a difference. Come to the rally on June 16 to show that you object to the collusion between the Lennon Government and Gunns and to this fast-tracked disaster of a pulp mill.

Spread the word and pass this email on to your networks.

For more information or if you can help make this rally a success by volunteering at the rally or letterboxing in your local area please contact Gemma Tillack at The Wilderness Society Launceston on (03) 63317488 or email gemma.tillack@wilderness.org.au

with thanks,

Gemma Tillack

Meanwhile:

18th May 2007
Huon Valley Environment Centre

Protest peels back mill’s clean green veneer

Members of the Huon Valley community have gathered at the launch of Malaysian logging giant, Ta Ann’s, veneer mill to highlight escalating threats to high conservation value forests.

“This mill is not sustainable,” said Huon Valley Environment Centre spokesperson Will Mooney. “Priceless wilderness and high-conservation-value forests in areas such as the Lower Weld Valley face heightened destruction once this plant is switched on.”

“Ta Ann is a billion dollar foreign logging company with a poor environmental record of logging rainforests in Sarawak. Now, with grants from the Federal Government, Australian tax payers have helped line the pockets of these foreign logging millionaires.”

“Tasmanians need a guarantee that pristine wilderness forests that provide us with clean air, pure water and priceless carbon storage, will not be destroyed to profit a new cadre of foreign logging millionaires.”

More info: http://www.huon.org/weldvalley

Monday, May 21:

World Heritage in crisis – Forest defenders act to protect national park

Activists have sent an urgent crisis report to the World Heritage Centre in Paris and setup treesits to halt logging in the Weld Valley, after clearfelling commenced in ancient forests directly adjacent to the border of the Tasmanian Wilderness World Heritage Area.

“Forestry Tasmania has allowed clearfelling to commence in old growth forests a mere 100 metres from the national park boundary,” said Mr Burling, Huon Valley Environment Centre Convenor.

“This is the logging industry at its worst, destroying not only the qualities of the high conservation value forests but threatening the World Heritage Area with the potential introduction of weeds and escaped regeneration burns,” said Mr Burling.

“Community members have formed a World Heritage Action Team to do the work of State and Federal governments. Today they take a stand for the globally recognized forests of the Lower Weld Valley both in the current national park and those facing the chainsaw outside,” said Mr Burling

“The State and Federal Governments are derelict in their duty of care for the Tasmanian Wilderness World Heritage Area. The question now is, Does Federal Labor also support chainsaws and bulldozers going with metres of our national park system?,” said Mr Burling

For more information, and to view the Crisis Report sent to the World Heritage Centre in Paris, please visit: http://www.huon.org