Tasmanian Times
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1.0KIs eco-certification the solution to forest destruction?
The Forest Stewardship Council is the world’s pre-eminent forest-products certification body, but companies selling FSC-certified products keep getting caught violating its standards....
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New Zealand’s Anti-introduced Wildlife Dogma needs burying
*Pic: Scottish red deer have been in New Zealand for 150 years and browse vegetation similar to moas did for 60 million...
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To Slow Climate Change Now ? … People Power !
Republished with author updates In Burlington, Vermont, on Saturday, April 27, 2013, the “Owning the New Economy Summit” had just ended. There...
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‘Jessica Hoyt, nurse, mother and a child of the Lapoinya Forest arrested …’
THURSDAY, January 21 … • Rosemary Bolger, ABC: Forestry Tasmania boss Bob Annells’ exit linked to anti-logging protests, Opposition says The flare-up...
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That illegal Franklin jetty: a question begged?
*Pic: Shape of things to come on the Franklin waterfront? The approved, but not built, pontoon is on the left. Huon Valley...
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PETA letter to schools ‘outrageous’
The recent letter from the People for the Ethical Treatment of Animals (PETA) to Tasmanian schools is a political stunt pushing their...
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Stage 1 water restrictions for Launceston as the big dry digs in
Water restrictions are being expanded with Stage 1 coming into force in Launceston and surrounding areas. As from today Friday January 22,...
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VDL in Australian hands: What’s in it for Tasmania?
I have publicly stood up and put my money on the table to front a bid by Australian investors to buy back...
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Mt Wellington this morning …
Taken this morning (January 22, 2016). From Kunanyi looking over smoke haze enveloping Hobart.
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Litvinenko, Polonium-210 and the big tobacco cover-up
The big news about Putin’s involvement in the death of Litvinenko ( Guardian HERE ) reminded me that cigarettes are also radioactive....
