Tasmanian Times
Environment
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970Devonshire teas and trees. The Last Century Dinosaur
Three items in the news media recently shine the light on why the forest industry in Australia, including Tasmania, is in such...
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727
The Tarkine’s guard is down, let’s get it back
The emergency heritage listing granted to the Tarkine by the federal Government on the back of a road proposed through the Tarkines...
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968
Oil spill catastrophe highlights Tassie dangers
NEWS of environmental catastrophe in Japan, has eclipsed another pollution event on the other side of the world that has implications for...
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991
Greg responds to Richard … again
Richard Flanagan (Holding up Gunns through secret deals, HERE) might be right when he claims, “loathing of Gunns is deep seated”, but...
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981
Rene (and other MPs) in the Lion’s Den. Burke must table Kelty report, says Senate
Beaconsfield Public Meeting. Four Politicians ‘Hear Your Concerns and Questions On Gunns Proposed Pulp Mill’. March 31st 2011 Mediator John Day, the...
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987
Meltdown..?
Japanese officials have conceded that the battle to salvage four crippled reactors at the Fukushima Daiichi power plant has been lost. The...
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979
The Mill and Monoculture. SWST quits talks
To read the paper to the 19th March Rally against Gunn’s Mill, of Peter Brenner (Pulp mill No. Modern forestry policy YES!...
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Gunns’ sawmill future at risk
GUNNS Ltd’s newly acquired Bell Bay sawmill faces closure if the company can’t secure the softwood log allocation needed to make it...
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937
Input Side Insanity
The cost burden of a wood-based pulp mill has a much broader reach on the input side than the local pollution –...
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895
Tarkine mining: A scratch across the Mona Lisa
A British firm is among those looking at open-cut mining in forests that shelter species including the Tasmanian devil Considered one of...
