The head of Tasmania’s largest native sawmill has warned no-one in the forestry industry wants a return to the “forest wars” and says wood from forests the Government is proposing to reopen to logging may go unclaimed.
The head of Tasmania’s largest native sawmill has warned no-one in the forestry industry wants a return to the “forest wars” and says wood from forests the Government is proposing to reopen to logging may go unclaimed.
State Parliament returns next week, and the Government will table legislation to allow 356,000 hectares of reserves to be logged, ahead of the 2020 moratorium date.
In 2016, Resources Minister Guy Barnett said the financial position of Forestry Tasmania required a dumping of the moratorium in order to reinvigorate the industry.
Mr Barnett named Neville Smith Forest Products (NSFP) as a company interested in purchasing timber from the areas, which are scattered across the state and include areas in the Western Tiers and Tarkine.
NSFP director James Neville-Smith today told ABC Radio Hobart he had made it clear to the Government that the industry did not want to return to conflict of years ago …
