Alan Ramsey SMH
Note the binding date of the length of the approval. Fifty years. Gunns Ltd now has watertight legal standing from the Australian people, courtesy of a government and a prime minister so thoroughly on the nose with voters they’re headed for imminent electoral defeat, to go on destroying, for the next half century, what remains of Tasmania’s magnificent old-growth forests for woodchipping fodder for a $2 billion pulp paper mill in the Tamar Valley, south of Launceston.
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Sue Neales Mercury
Which makes it all the more shameful that Premier Paul Lennon yesterday greeted Mr Turnbull’s approval of the pulp mill with delight, under an apparent misapprehension that it had somehow validated the Tasmanian Government’s own abrogated approach. For Mr Lennon to say this was “a victory for logic and reason over scare-mongering and fear campaigns” also clearly shows he has not read the scientific detail of Dr Peacock’s report and its clear concerns about the impact of skimpy state regulations and controls.
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