Tasmanians need to recognise the fundamental threat the Greens and their satellite groups pose to a weak Tasmanian economy.
In the process of trowelling-off the forest industry, the green groups are now locked into an attempt to make sure the mining industry has no future either.
The authoritarian attitude of the environment movement is evidenced by its refusal to countenance any mining projects in north-west Tasmania, despite any projects there having to go through an assessment process by either the Tasmanian EPA, the Federal Government under the Federal legislation, the Environment Protection and Biodiversity Conservation Act, or both.
The Tarkine National Coalition is talking of attacking a mining company’s banks, shareholders and markets because it has put forward projects for assessment in Tasmania’s north-west.
“With the Greens and their satellite groups, it’s either their way or the highway,” Mr Long said.
“They get only a little bit of the vote, but want to control society.
“In particular, they want to destroy Tasmania’s resource industries, including the mining industry”.
Mr Long said the green movement is powerless without the complicit approval nationally of the major Australian political parties.
“It is well past time the main parties told the green movement that society will not be cast according to their unpopular principles” he said.
“We have a poorly performing economy with a serious shortage of jobs, but the green movement is still trying to shut down the few opportunities we have,” he said.
Earlier on Tasmanian Times: EPA’s approval of Shree Minerals’ incomplete environmental reports a farce
