Tasmanian Times
Economy
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739Tas 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...
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‘Gunns has an unfortunate history of corporate dishonesty …’
Last week, Lucy Landon-Lane (spokeswoman for Pulp the Mill) was contacted by “Social Sustainability Advisors” firm Pax Populus on behalf of Gunns,...
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Rosebery fire: Why?
There have been questions about whether I searched for dead wildlife as a result of the fickle Rosebery burn? HERE Yes, I...
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If … we had built a coal-fired power station and accepted $500m compo …
#20 1. It is factually correct that the King and Henty-Anthony schemes (a) were more costly per unit of output than the...
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Webster gets cash to buy walnuts. Gunns will get cash for the sawmill …
The Australian Financial Review today reported a Singapore listed company, Pacific Andes Resources Development, spent $51.7 million to buy Webster’s 19.8 per...
