The truth of the plundering of our State Forests by vested interests …

Thankyou to Marcus Higgs ( Here ) for bringing this investigative report to light on Tas Times. This study emphatically shows what many of us have known for many years. The truth of the plundering of our State Forests by vested interests mainly engaged in the woodchipping industry.

What any one with eyes can see when flying over Tasmania or looking with google earth, is that our forests have been over-harvested.

Of course many have tried to counteract the spinmeisters by pointing out the bleeding obvious but the spinmeisters of the industry and their political servants have bleated on about “worlds best practice” “sustainable forestry”, and how it is such an important industry for the past 40 years now.

In 1979 Ronald Sinclair was engaged to produce a report called the Tasmanian Wood Skills Resource Investigation, it was supposed to show the way forward.

It did, he had many very good ideas, were any of them implemented. I can’t say but his prophetic words about the parlous state of our forests ring true. Hindsight is wonderful but why do these sort of studies just get shelved and collect dust while the industry rolls on.

I am suggesting that it may have a lot to do with who donates what to political parties. The way I see it donations to political parties are a blatant form of corruption. I definitely do not believe that the companies and individuals who donate large sums of money to politicians do so from altruistic reasons.

I will leave you with the words of Ronald Sinclair to make your own decision on what has destroyed our forests.

Conclusions

Of course these are only excerpts from Mr Sinclair’s report but they are pretty telling and he tells it like it was then and like we with eyes have seen for quite some time since.

It is not good enough that this information sits collecting dust while our poltical and industry would-be masters feed us on bulldust.

The truth is here for all to see.

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