Gunns Postcard

14 Comments

1. 

   Dave Groves

   August 16, 2009 at 10:01

   Is this a toon?????….a piss taker????

   Pretty good.

   I’ll see if I can come up wif one as well.
2. 

   Richard Butler

   August 16, 2009 at 10:54

   I hope there are sufficient responses to melt down their servers.

   “Jesus what DO you take us for. We can all see the evidence of your sustainable approaches.

   1. When you as an enterprise wanting to be embraced and supported, stand up and publicly declare PMAA Section 11 to be unwarranted, unnecessary (because the proposed mill is so very clean and safe) and when you start to operate as those around you operate – then and only then will you start to find respect.

   Whilst you remain tucked neatly behind the shadow of PMAA Section 11, whether it was your lawyers who drafted it or not – you remain one of the most abhorrent enterprises in the western world.

   Fix what is wrong. Then you can start to earn what you desire.

   2. The fact that you push out those ridiculous green books, change your logo, push out post cards is a sign of your emotional immaturity and lack of wisdom. It shows you know there is a problem but you just arent smart enough or big enough to take on the big stuff.

   You may be a good pulp mill and forest harvesting and processing plant, but a great many people in the community have developed further than your own collective maturity – and that is where the problems are. The gap is of almost intercontinental proportions.

   Its not something spin (no mater how well intended) can fix. Its not vanilla icing that is needed. Its leadership on the broader community principles.

   Fix the class system that is so apparent and wrong – or continue to be considered worse than leprosy.

   Richard Butler”
3. 

   Mike Adams

   August 16, 2009 at 13:54

   And who threatens the threatened species that Gunns say they are so careful to protect?
4. 

   Stephani Taylor

   August 16, 2009 at 14:41

   Oh Pleeease, we really are getting desperate aren’t we.
   As John Mc Enroe would say ” You can’t be serious”
   Thanks for the laugh, always good to start the day with a chuckle
5. 

   Richard Butler

   August 16, 2009 at 16:25

   On second view – This has GOT to be a joke.

   Look closely at the Eagle in the photograph bottom right of the post card.

   ITS STANDING ON A STUMP. No other trees interrupt that blue sky.

   Must be in one of those clear felled forests….
6. 

   Pete Godfrey

   August 16, 2009 at 19:58

   Seems like Gunns have a new propaganda publicist who has decided that we don’t remember what they do or what they have been up to for the last decade or two.
   It is interesting that they feel the need to put out rubbish like this. Especially when clearfelling native forests and rainforest destroys the nesting habitat of so many other species of bird and mammals.
   This is the old trick of getting the baby to look over there to distract it from the hurt that is happening.
   The revised little green book on the site

   http://oldtt.pixelkey.biz/index.php?/weblog/article/my-little-greed-book/

   undoes a few of the porkies
7. 

   don davey

   August 16, 2009 at 21:28

   Just a huge wank ! but just watch how many

   get sucked in.
   d.d.
8. 

   Gerry Mander

   August 16, 2009 at 22:04

   Luverly picture!

   Must be in contention for Post Card of the year alongside that other one of a baby playing with a brightly coloured chain saw.

   Apart from that, can anyone tell me why the forests need a ‘conservation planner’ when they can do it so much better by themselves if they are left alone?

   The planning’s pretty simple too. Long, even rows stretching from here to the horizon.

   Good on yer Gunns. Love your style!
9. 

   john hayward

   August 16, 2009 at 22:34

   Suzy, before you go any further, please explain how you can, in any conscience, represent a government/company which is conducting the highest proportional rate of native forest destruction in the developed world. Yes, I mean Tas. Check the international stats over the past decade. Do you have problems sleeping?

   John hayward
10. 

    Frank Strie, Forstwirtschaftsmeister

    August 17, 2009 at 00:42

    Why repeat the old mistakes of the past? As if Australian Foresters had invented clearfelling and conversion of mixed aged forests to simplistic, even aged stands of trees…

    This article was written by one of Germany’s largest private forest owners in 1996, now some 512 years in family ownership:
    … Forestry has a longer tradition in Germany than anywhere else. Peter Stromer, a patrician from Nürnberg, started in 1368 to sow pine seeds into the woodlands outside the city and so created the first man-made forest.
    By 1795, Georg Ludwig Hartig had proposed: ”wise foresters should attempt to use their woodlands such that our descendants can draw at least as much advantages from them as is claimed by the present generation”. This concept of sustainability was to become the guiding principle of forestry in Germany—now for two hundred years. Meanwhile it has been adopted worldwide as a key paradigm for resource use and for economic growth and development generally.
    Making forestry sustainable was, at the close of the 18th century, a particularly urgent task. What remained of the woodlands, which had been cleared for agriculture and for settlements over the centuries, was exhausted, if not entirely devastated, by over-use. After all, this was a period in which timber was at least as crucial to the economy as coal was in the 19th century and oil is in ours. Under such circumstances, sustainability meant securing a high level of timber production over a long period of time. It meant reclaiming wastelands for new forests and upgrading existing ones in an orderly and planned way such that timber extraction was brought into balance with growth. This was the beginning of forestry, as we understand the term today. The first academy devoted exclusively to forestry as a science and management practice was founded in Tharandt/Saxonia around 1800.
    In the spirit of these times, forests were conceived to be a result of human activity, a natural resource which man can create, design and manage almost at will. The very word ”forest” (in German ”Forst”) — in contrast to the older word ”woods” (”Wald”) — conveys this notion of man-madness. The underlying model is that of an ideal standard forest (”Normalwald”) which is geometrically designed like a chess board and which has about as many squares as there are years in the crop rotation cycle, with each square stocked exclusively with one tree species of even age. In this standard forest, if one square only is clear-cut and replanted (”schlagweiser Altersklassenwald”) each year, sustainability in production over time will be assured for the forest as a whole, although not for each portion. When, in addition, fast growing species like spruce, pine and Douglas fir are chosen and properly managed, timber production, net earnings and the return on land would be maximized. Such was the calculation.
    Compared to other nationalities, Germans are supposed to be particularly thorough and systematic. With respect to translating the agricultural idea of rotation cropping into forestry practice, they certainly were. German woods, which used to be uneven-age, mixed-species stands of deciduous trees, were rapidly turned into monotonous plantation-like timber factories made up predominantly of conifers. They were first domesticated, then industrialized and finally militarized — uniform trees marching in rows, forming green brigades and battalions, ready for orders.
    The recent structure of forests in Germany mirrors these two hundred years of militarization and, from nature’s point of view, of alienation:
    • while conifers used to be rare in Germany, they now make up two thirds of the wooded area;
    • monocultures prevail: two thirds of the softwood area is stocked with one species only;
    • oak and beech, formerly the dominant species, now account for less than 5% of all trees under 40 years old. …from “Forestry in Germany: old and new”
    Hermann Graf Hatzfeldt 28th October 1996

    Graf Hatzfeldt, an economist by profession, is well aware of the situation we are in down here in remote Tasmania. No amount of spin will mask the facts away anymore. Years of oily propaganda and deliberate community exclusion, we had it all, the term environmental terrorists, environmental traitors and so on…
11. 

    pilko

    August 17, 2009 at 02:31

    This sort of greenwashing is de rigeur for corporations the world over.
    Sorcewatch tells us that Greenwashing is

    “The phenomena of socially and environmentally destructive corporations, attempting to preserve and expand their markets or power by posing as friends of the environment”.

    and

    “the unjustified appropriation of environmental virtue by a company, an industry, a government, a politician or even a non-government organization to create a pro-environmental image, sell a product or a policy, or to try and rehabilitate their standing with the public and decision makers after being embroiled in controversy”.

    Gunns is a logging company. Thats along with scrounging for subsidies is Gunns core business.
    They are no different than oil and logging companies the world over. They are a joke and most sane Tasmanians see through this guff. Have fun with it.
12. 

    don davey

    August 17, 2009 at 06:42

    Definitely relevant, I guarantee !

    WHO IS JACK SCHITT

    For some time many of us have wondered just who is Jack Schitt?

    We find ourselves at a loss when someone says, ‘You don’t know Jack Schitt!’

    Well, thanks to my genealogy efforts, you can now respond in an intellectual way.

    Jack Schitt is the only son of Awe Schitt. Awe Schitt, the fertilizer magnate, married O.Schitt, the owner of Needeep N. Schitt, Inc. They
    had one son, Jack.

    In turn, Jack Schitt married Noe Schitt. The deeply religious couple
    produced six children: Holie, Giva, Fulla, Bull,
    and the twins Deep and Dip.

    Against her parents’ objections, Deep Schitt married Dumb Schitt, a high school dropout. After being married 15 years, Jack and Noe Schitt
    divorced. Noe Schitt later married Ted Sherlock, and because her kids were living with them, she wanted to keep her previous name. She was
    then known as Noe Schitt Sherlock.

    Meanwhile, Dip Schitt married Loda Schitt, and they produced a son with a rather nervous disposition named Chicken.

    Two of the other six children, Fulla and Giva, were inseparable throughout childhood and subsequently married the Happens brothers in a dual ceremony.

    The wedding announcement in the newspaper announced the Schitt-Happens
    nuptials. The Schitt-Happens children were Dawg, Byrd, and Horse.

    Bull Schitt, the prodigal son, left home to tour the world. He recently
    returned from Italy with his new Italian bride, Pisa Schitt.

    Now when someone says, ‘You don’t know Jack Schitt,’ you can correct
    them.

    Sincerely,
    Crock O. Schitt

    d.d.
13. 

    OG

    August 17, 2009 at 22:56

    Why does this lady talk like a (Anonymous Personal Diminishing Observation Deleted)?
14. 

    Pete Godfrey

    August 18, 2009 at 01:16

    What is good about this postcard is that Gunns are telling us that they abide by the Forest Practices Code on the matter of Eagles Nests.
    Nice to know isn’t it, as the 10 ha reserve is a requirement of the Tasmanian Forest Practices Code.
    I do wonder however if the Eagles do in fact just live in their little reserve and are unaffected by all the noise, clearfelling and death of their prey.
    My main concern is that there are thousands of other creatures that need the rest of the forest for their homes and we are allowing the forests to be destroyed for the lowest economic returns and maximum environmental disturbance.