Environment
BASS RESIDENTS DEMAND O’BYRNE TAKE A STAND: FOR OR AGAINST AN ALP PULP MILL
WHAT: Action outside Michelle O’Byrne’s office,
WHEN: 12.30 pm, Friday 2 October (TOMORROW),
WHERE: 52 St John St, Launceston.
Opponents to Gunns’ native-forest based pulp mill will gather outside the Launceston office of Michelle O’Byrne and demand that the Labor MP declare which side of the line she stands on: for or against the ALP pulp mill. Participants will hand over to Ms O’Byrne over 1600 signed letters for delivery to Premier David Bartlett at the upcoming community forum at Beaconsfield.
Fed up with the shifting sands in which Premier Bartlett has drawn his line, residents will also pour sand outside Minister O’Byrne’s office and ask her to choose whether she stands on the drifting sands of shaky ALP promises or on solid ground with her constituents.
Film and photographs from the day’s event will be shown to international companies considering investing in the Gunns Ltd pulp mill.
Vica Bayley