Tasmanian Times
Economy
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781Forestry Smoke … not a good start for David O’Byrne
In Budget Estimates recently David O’Byrne MP, was reported in Hansard as saying the acknowledged dangerous levels of forestry smoke earlier this...
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Big blow delays rooftop turbines
Strong winds have swept aside plans to install four large wind turbines on top of a Hobart office building. This morning, a...
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Bookies buying into climate change race
Is climate change “crap”, as Tony Abbott once reportedly said? We’ve heard complex arguments from scientists armed with graphs and pie charts....
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Cities for living not roads
Alderman Philip Cocker today called on the State and Federal Governments to stop wasting vast amounts of money on road works and...
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Great Things Happening in the State’s North
Exciting times in Launceston with serious undertakings underway, it can be reported that movement on the flood levies is advancing and has...
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Gillard poised for major forests statement …
A NEW-FOUND pragmatism forced by economic downturn, public pressure and high-stakes politics has entered the previously hardcore centre of Tasmania’s forest industry....
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‘Crew must not be locked on board of fumigation ship’
The Tasmanian Greens today demanded that the Labor government intervene and ensure that the crew of the whole log transport ship, ID...
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Tas ‘green tick’ a forestry first
The owner of Australia’s first internationally-endorsed native timber property says he has balanced conservation and timber production. Peter Downie’s property in Tasmania’s...
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Farms snub fox bait layers
LAND owners are fighting plans to lay 1080 fox baits on land in one of Tasmania’s last healthy Tasmanian devil strongholds. The...
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Whole log exports to cease … but no-one seemed to have told Forestry Tasmania
The Tasmanian Greens today congratulated the people of Tasmania, and especially the people of George Town and Burnie, after Forestry Minister Bryan...
