Environment

Rudd must heed scientists’ warning on inadequate targets

Christine Milne THE Rudd Government must heed the warning of Australia’s leading climate scientists and significantly strengthen its greenhouse emissions target, the...

Celery-top pine barely gets a mention …

John Maddock Readers should compare and contrast this puny effort by FT et al with the report produced by Timber Workers For...

Meander dam …

Tim Morris Greens Water spokesperson Tuesday 14 April, 2009. Full Disclosure of Costs and Benefits Essential THE Tasmanian Greens have written to...

Woodcraft review: Memorable for all the wrong reasons

Garry Stannus WELCOME back, Woodworker. The article in Tasmanian Times (13 April 2009) ‘A Review of the Tasmanian Woodcraft Sector for The...

Vietnam’s rapidly expanding plantations

Hakan Ekstrom Wood Resources International LLC Vietnam’s rapidly expanding plantation resources are becoming an important supply source for pulpmills in Japan and...

Keep the subsidies flowing

Disgruntled The pulp mill was only ever about subsidies…look at the subsidies of below market cost wood that are locked in for...

Ralphs Bay: fundamentally flawed

Save Ralphs Bay SAVE Ralphs Bay and Birds Tasmania representatives will be available at Parliament lawns at 11.30am today to highlight some...

The kernel gets a new mascot

Forestry: Prove me wrong …

Eva Ruzicka I’d sincerely like to see some change (and not just the pap put out recently on commercial television trying to...

Stop the planning review proces

FOLLOWING the public meeting hosted by Launceston City Council at the Town Hall on Tuesday 7th April in relation to the changes...