Tony Walker
Call this the “Gunns Pipeline Act”. I know there have been a lot of elephants in a lot of rooms lately but there has definitely been a big one in Gunns’ boardroom- the pipeline, without which the pulp mill cannot operate, even if it finds the money under some foreign log. Withdrawal from the RPDC left Gunns without the “project of state significance” status that would have allowed the Government to compulorily acquire the land they need from unbuyably opposed landholders. They (Gunns and the Government) have been looking for a solution ever since and in the “project of regional significance” they think they’ve found it. Any hope we may have had that a Bartlett government would be less compliant to Gunns seems to have evaporated. Clever, kind and connected or clever, cunning and conniving? Read more, Comment here
