Tasmanian Times
Economy
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715Pulp mill boss recruited to make project appealing
THE new head of Gunns’ Bell Bay pulp mill project was head-hunted to make the controversial mill more palatable to would-be financiers....
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Evil truth behind all those blog comments
Most of the people who tell me I have a suspicious mind work for the Chinese secret service. A few for Qantas....
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The Wood Smoke Activist
Below is the January issue of the Wood Smoke Activist. I hope you will find it both interesting and helpful in finding...
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Brighton Bypass Decision
An additional $12 million will be invested from the Nation Building Program to protect Aboriginal heritage at the Jordan River levee near...
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Tas PS job growth tops nation
TASMANIA has the most bloated state public service in Australia. New figures released by the Australian Bureau of Statistics yesterday show 40,900...
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Bell Bay aluminium smelter announces long-term energy contract
Rio Tinto Alcan Bell Bay aluminium smelter today announced the signing of a long-term, base load electricity supply contract with Hydro Tasmania...
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Forestry lobby group axes chairman
The Forest Industries Association of Tasmania (FIAT) has sacked its chairman because it can not afford to pay him. FIAT lost half...
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Forestry on notice. Spirit, Global Protest. Mill Dossier. Cundall. Kelty. Gunns and FSC
Forestry Tasmania’s years of escaping scrutiny and responsibility for its greenhouse gas emissions from logging carbon-rich native forests are coming to end...
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Gunns: A company teetering on the edge?
Gunns’ Joint Venture partners must be wondering what’s going on when they read the latest ASX announcement by Gunns that it requires...
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Is Botnia Gunns’ Joint Venture Partner?
Is Finland’s Metsa-Botnia Gunns’ pulp mill partner? In November I was told that Timo Piilonen, Gunns’ ‘pulp mill project manager’, does not...
