Tasmanian Times
Environment
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933The failure of government to govern has paralyzed the state
Does corruption really matter ? Future students of governance will see Tasmania as a perfect case study in how perverting planning laws...
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The Parable of the Insolvent Company
Gunns and Forestry Tasmania are both in serious financial difficulty. FT is only accountable to the government, and to the beleaguered Tasmanian...
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963
Pictures of protests
Forest activists hang a banner from the ceiling of Forestry Tasmania head office in Hobart. A forest activists plays the sound of...
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Are private forest growers “missing in action”?
No wonder the forest industry is in crisis. One of the groups who stand most to gain from a positive contribution to...
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How can this be possible?
From two newspaper reports: 1. An elderly couple, the husband 82 yo. and the wife 80 yo. are facing eviction from their...
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Confused about carbon reduction plans?
Confused about carbon reduction plans … Download: Confused_about_carbon_reduction_plans.pdf The_Switkowski_report_-_opportunity_knocks.pdf Before his retirement Ted Pritchard was the Executive General Manager and Chief Operations...
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The Faintest Whiff
I have a rather uneasy feeling about some of Gunns comments recently – the comments that secured them their licences from the...
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High toxicity in Tasmanian waterways
The Tasmanian Greens today expressed concern over recent report from the state Director of Public Health Roscoe Taylor, that high nutrient levels...
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The Asturias Pledge, A Shoppers Guide To Pesticides
UN press release EXPERTS AT UN MEETING URGE ACTION TO COMBAT ENVIRONMENTAL CAUSES OF CANCER. (New York; 18 March, 2011) Medical experts...
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What Gunns told me
Gunns Limited approached me to comment on how they were doing with their draft plantation harvest residue burning policy (burning their waste)....
