High-Intensity Burning is Not Necessary

Tim Morris
Greens Member for Lyons, Tim Morris MP, said the so-called regeneration process is completely unnecessary and is nothing more than an economic short-cut for the forest industry which doesn’t seem to care about those Tasmanians who suffer the respiratory consequences of this third-world practice.

GREENS TABLE PETITION AGAINST HIGH-INTENSITY REGEN BURNS
High-Intensity Burning is Not Necessary
Tim Morris MP
Greens Member for Lyons
Thursday, 5 March 2009

www.tas.greens.org.au

The Tasmanian Greens today tabled a petition, signed by 578 people, against the forest industry’s annual high-intensity regeneration burns which poison Tasmania’s atmosphere for weeks at a time every Autumn.

Greens Member for Lyons, Tim Morris MP, said the so-called regeneration process is completely unnecessary and is nothing more than an economic short-cut for the forest industry which doesn’t seem to care about those Tasmanians who suffer the respiratory consequences of this third-world practice.

Mr Morris also said that these high-intensity burns also damage the economic health of Tasmania as they horrify tourists, ruin country shows, and darken the skies across rural Tasmania at the height of the harvest season.

“The forest industry needs to consider the damage it is doing to the respiratory and economic health of Tasmanians, as well as the climate itself, and understand that opposition to their high-intensity regeneration burning will only grow.”