Tasmanian Times
Forestry
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753Gunns: A company teetering on the edge?
Gunns’ Joint Venture partners must be wondering what’s going on when they read the latest ASX announcement by Gunns that it requires...
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Is Botnia Gunns’ Joint Venture Partner?
Is Finland’s Metsa-Botnia Gunns’ pulp mill partner? In November I was told that Timo Piilonen, Gunns’ ‘pulp mill project manager’, does not...
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‘Gunns has an unfortunate history of corporate dishonesty …’
Last week, Lucy Landon-Lane (spokeswoman for Pulp the Mill) was contacted by “Social Sustainability Advisors” firm Pax Populus on behalf of Gunns,...
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Rosebery fire: Why?
There have been questions about whether I searched for dead wildlife as a result of the fickle Rosebery burn? HERE Yes, I...
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Webster gets cash to buy walnuts. Gunns will get cash for the sawmill …
The Australian Financial Review today reported a Singapore listed company, Pacific Andes Resources Development, spent $51.7 million to buy Webster’s 19.8 per...
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Minister sabotages Tarkine protection
The Tarkine National Coalition has strongly condemned Minister Burke’s decision to allow the Tarkine Emergency National Heritage Listing to lapse. “The lapsing...
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Orchids of the propaganda dead zone
Orchids can appear in some strange places, and it’s not so unusual to find some species deep within our cities, if you...
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The Coming Dark Ages (or how Labor turned paradise into a parasite)
Five years ago, recently departed Treasurer Michael Aird told a Legislative Council estimates committee that Tasmania’s massive unfunded superannuation debt was nothing...
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Canberra backs forests peace deal. No compo
THE Gillard government has backed the pioneering Tasmanian forests peace pact, ensuring a blueprint to end most native forest logging can be...
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Indigenous burn control a myth: study
New research puts paid to the belief that Aboriginal people used fire on a large scale to control vegetation across Australia. The...
