Rocky
How long do you wait for the literal smoke to clear? On my drive home yesterday, I briefly glimpse the reddest of suns setting through a filthy haze of smoke. This morning I watch a red sunrise and once again despair at the foul tasting smoke haze stretching from horizon to horizon. Tonight Forestry will host a forum in Launceston to discuss the implications of forestry and Global warming? Insane! Todays paper front page shouts “Pulp Mill ship set to Dock” Here, and extracts below, and already, before the mill is even built, our drinking water is poisoned from the spray regularly spread on the proponents plantations. Tasmania has the highest incident of cancers in Australia and the link to these sprays is undeniable. Insane!
Rachel Williams Examiner
A MASSIVE cargo ship is expected to dock at Bell Bay this afternoon carrying important equipment for Gunns’ $2.2 billion pulp mill.
TasPorts has declared a prohibited area around the Bell Bay port in preparation for the arrival of the Beluga Finesse – a 138m long cargo ship with the capacity for carrying the equivalent of 673 containers.
It will arrive at the number-five berth, which is designed for heavy lifting.
Sources say the Beluga is carrying “special equipment for a major construction project”.
“This is not standard cargo. From a stevedoring point of view it is classified as break bulk cargo, which would have to be associated with a big project,” the source said.
The Examiner understands the ship will be carrying power equipment – ordered up to two years ago – to generate green energy for the pulp mill.
A TasPorts spokesman could not comment on the arrival, scheduled for 1pm, because of commercial confidence.
A Gunns spokesman said the timber company would not say what the ship was carrying but confirmed that equipment for the mill had been arriving “for the last year or so”.
Cargo on the Antiguan vessel, which is arriving from Taichung in Taiwan, has been listed as “project” on the TasPorts website. Read more here,
