Environment
Listen, Mr Green …
Mike Bolan
Citizens yesterday launched a blistering attack on Bryan Green over the Florentine forest destruction. Mr Green must send a clear message to the forestry industry that he doesn’t support the subsidised destruction of our remaining forests. When our hospitals are underfunded, and Tasmanians wait for years in pain for medical services, it is unconscionable for governments to pay nearly $300 million a year to the forestry industry as MIS grants, cash payments, free plantation water, under market resource prices, reduced rates and taxes, free roads and bridges and a whole range of other exemptions and favours. Bryan Green’s continuing silence can only be interpreted as acceptance of the extreme agenda being forced upon him by forestry subsidy recipients, the community concluded. The silence is deafening and it shows the extent to which Mr Green is being dictated to by the forestry industry. BTW This comment proudly ignored by the Mercury. Read more, Comment here