Emma Anglesey – Greens Legislative Council Candidate for Launceston
Liberal Government’s new legislation is an attack on Tasmania’s vibrant and booming arts-cultural tourism industry
On the Liberal Government’s new legislation to allow the clear-felling of our high conservation value forests, Emma Anglesey, Greens Legislative Council Candidate for Launceston said, “Before we go to the polls on May 6th, the people of Launceston deserve to know where all the Upper House candidates stand on the Liberal Government’s new legislation to allow the clear-felling and destruction of our high conservation value forests. This logging will destroy globally significant, life supporting ecosystems and is an attack on Tasmania’s vibrant and booming environmental and arts-cultural tourism industry. I won’t be supporting it.”
“The Government’s legislation will open up 12 of the 14 mountain bike trails at Blue Derby for logging, just a month before the Enduro World Series mountain bike event comes to Tasmania. In April we’ll see around 2000 riders, their crews, spectators and international journalists all descend on Derby and most of them will fly into Launceston. Thousands of overnight stays will be generated all over the North while these international visitors breathe our clean air and see our spectacular forests, and so many people in our community will prosper as a result. These forests should be protected by the Government and not opened up for clear-felling and destruction,” she concluded.
Paul (Basil) O’Halloran
