Tasmanian Times
Economy
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727Tell Japan to stop wasting police time: Brown
An official complaint should be sent to Japan over its misuse of Australian police resources following another raid on the Sea Shepherd...
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Rail should have infrastructure priority
Community-based public and transport advocacy group, Future Transport Tasmania (FTT), today acknowledged the new chair of the Tasmanian Infrastructure Advisory Council (TIAC),...
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Cygnet … and mining exploration?
In today’s Mercury (Sat. the 5th), there is a public notice for a mining exploration lease application. The lease area is around,...
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Gunns and Government must regain community trust to justify a new pulp mill
The Wilderness Society today reiterated its opposition to the Tamar Valley pulp mill proposal. Wilderness Society spokesman Vica Bayley said Gunns proposed...
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Mill Statement
Environment groups and the community have been opposed to the proposed mill due to a range of environmental and social impacts and...
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Greens v Greens on Gunns pulp mill. Milne’s question …
A GROWING split has emerged between conservationists and the Greens over the planned Gunns pulp mill in Tasmania, after the timber company...
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The Precautionary Principle – does it operate in Tasmania?
The Tasmanian community was looking for reassurance from the Tasmanian River Catchment Water Quality Initiative1(TRCWQI) that the way pesticides are being used...
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Burke’s mill decision delayed a week. Gunns in another trading halt …
Environment Minister Tony Burke is expected to hand down his decision today on the final marine impact assessment of Gunns’ planned Tamar...
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Chemical cocktail continues to contaminate Carlton, Duck Rivers
The Tasmanian Greens today said that concerns regarding ongoing detection of pesticides, including triazines, in the states’ waterways had escalated due to...
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Greens support new emissions reductions by 2020
The Tasmanian Greens today welcomed the move by Climate Change Minister Nick McKim MP to seek advice on setting a new State...
