Tasmanian Times
Environment
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Getting into trouble
Mike Bolan If foreign investors end up owning our big resource companies, then we probably won’t get paid very much for our...
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Forest stewardship
Peter Brenner HERE ARE the 10 FSC (Forest Stewardship Council) Principles and the linked 56 criteria as they stand today (Download pdf:...
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Forestry – letter to Kevin Rudd
Austra Maddox Last week I discovered at short notice that Kevin Rudd was to be at an event in Hobart (no prior...
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The solar scandal
Royce Millar Age AUSTRALIA is forfeiting billions of dollars in investment and thousands of jobs through its lack of support for solar...
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Forestry refuses to engage in community conversations
Media Release Forestry Tasmania has proposed that private discussions occur behind closed doors. “We welcome and will participate in private dialogue with...
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The public pays …
Mike Bolan I’m not sure why these discussions keep shifting into the technicalities of forestry and whether or not forestry is ‘sustainable’....
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A profitless wood supply service
Frank Nicklason ULA Majewski (The Examiner 29/1) has written an evidence based and thought provoking contribution to the Tasmanian forestry debate. It...
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A Good Cause Gone Bad
Christine MacDonald Environmental business is booming but the environment remains in peril. Has the environmental movement lost its soul? Read the full...
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Commercial influence on science
“I think there is a very real problem from the point of view of university research in the way that private companies...
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The truth about aggregated retention
Rob Blakers Firstly, a note on variable or aggregated retention. This practice was developed in North America, where fire is not used...
