It seems that New Forests is proposing to spend $5 million on a feasibility study to convert their newly acquired and now FSC certified E nitens plantations into black wood pellets to sell to Japan.
This is so Japan can stop using ‘dirty’ black coal fired electricity-producing power plants and become reliant on an apparently cleaner ‘renewable’ fuel source ie Tasmanian plantations.
One wonders just what the merits of FSC certification are if this is what its rapidly grown and felled plantation timber is to be used for.
This is unacceptable on all levels – environmentally, socially and politically – for Tasmania.
Once again the spectre of being ‘The Plantation Isle’ and all that that entails hangs over us.
More …
http://www.abc.net.au/news/2016-10-14/replacing-black-coal-wood-pellets-tasmania/7932378?section=tas
*Dr Alison Bleaney Is a GP. She is a member of the Tasmanian Public & Environmental Health Network (TPEHN)
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