Tasmanian Times
Environment
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Another log truck accident
Richard Davis Yet another log truck accident occurred on 29 February 2008 on the Gordon River Rd near the National Park Hotel....
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Beautiful, fragile planet
Helen Tait West Launceston IF ONE looks at a map of the original distribution of the world’s cool temperate rainforests one finds...
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Forest practices and water quality
Dr Alison Bleaney Since 2005, atrazine has been found in the Duck River, Rubicon River, Liffey River, Derwent River and simazine has...
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Corporations and climate change
Richard Butler Many readers will be well aware that in other parts of the world the issues of climate change are becoming...
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Mill: Workforce shrinks, timeline blows out
Kim Booth “What is surprising is that Gunns, Labor and Liberal parties were happy to trumpet the projected employment figures when justifying...
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Sensitive devils a pollutant risk
Matthew Denholm Australian TWO new scientific reports suggest the Tasmanian devil, whose survival is threatened by a facial cancer, may be more...
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WHA threat
Geoff Law Wilderness Society MR “Big old trees in native forest less than one kilometer from the World Heritage Area are being...
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ANZ: Shareholder backlash …
Paul Oosting Wilderness Society MR. Potential shareholder backlash if ANZ funds pulp mill. ANZ shareholders to hold an EGM should they fund...
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Save your leatherwood
Bob Davey SaveYourLeatherwoodHoney Association Of the three coupes in the Wedge ( Lake Gordon area), previously reported as being currently harvested, two...
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Bushfire fear, marine reserves
Phill Pullinger Environment Tasmania MRs The fire, which is understood to have started from a vehicle on the ‘Road to Nowhere’ (a...
