Tasmanian Times
Economy
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Accounting for Dummies … A look at Forestry Tasmania
JOHN LAWRENCE Mr Gordon is right when he says FT doesn’t lose money from operations. How could one? Under prevailing accounting standards...
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They should have dammed the Franklin after all?
CHRIS HARRIES The poles are melting. Polar bears are losing their habitat. Unprecedented wildfires, droughts and storm surges are rife. An ever-so-cautious...
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Put up or shut up
NEIL SMITH Yep, Eric B has to be a plant from Gunns or their fellow travellers. No way do I believe that...
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The Real Trespassers
BRENDA ROSSER Today 25 trespassers were arrested outside Parliament House in Hobart Tasmania. They were objecting to fast-track legislation that allows for...
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Reflections on Tasmania – the sad state
NOSTRADAMUS It feels as though I haven’t written for the Tasmanian Times for aeons and I don’t really think I’m missed, despite...
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“Yes we can!” – Tasmanian Climate Challenge
CHRIS HARRIES, Launch of novel community based climate project, Sunday August 30 A southern Tasmania community is challenging all Tasmanian householders to...
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927Fidel – Hopefully I am mistaken
FIDEL CASTRO RUZ There are shady events that have not as yet been sufficiently clarified before world public opinion. Obama has inherited...
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Brazil boosts pulp
HAKAN EKSTROM The Brazilian pulp industry increase production and pulpwood costs are going up in 2009, reports Wood Resource Quarterly Brazil increased...
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Los Angeles sharply cuts water, power use
LA TIMES Heeding calls to conserve both water and power, Los Angeles residents have significantly reduced water use and installed enough energy-efficient...
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Wilderness Society ‘welcomed to the real world’
ERIC B. JOHNSTON The Wilderness Society has, at long last, admitted that plantation forestry and pulp/paper mills offer rural jobs and income...
