Tasmanian Times
Forestry
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The cost of wood …
HAKAN EKSTROM Wood costs were 53% of the total production costs for pulp mills worldwide in the 1Q/09, reports the Wood Resource...
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‘Trees of life’ are vital food source
MIRANDA SPITTELER The “famine food” of trees can keep drought-hit communities alive when all other food crops fail, says Miranda Spitteler. In...
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Gunns still in plantation contention
RACHEL WILLIAMS, Examiner TASMANIAN timber company Gunns remains in contention to secure a 100,000 hectare plantation estate from failed managed investment scheme...
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Greens slam dishonest spin on pulp mill
KIM BOOTH The Tasmanian Greens today (Wednesday) refuted claims by the Forest Industry Association of Tasmania (FIAT) that only plantation timber will...
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Aerial spraying by-law rejected
READER Can I draw your attention to a most interesting but unexplained item in Tuesday’s Examiner ? It was on page 11...
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Rudd, Garrett and Wong are a bloody disgrace
KARL STEVENS, http://west-tamar-talk.blogspot.com/ It’s become the harshest indictment yet of spineless Australian politicians. Rudd, Garrett, Penny Wong, Tony Burke, Kim Carr and...
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Gunns incompetence exposed
BOB McMAHON, Serious questions arise as to the legality of Gunns proposal In a letter to Trevallyn residents, Gunns External Relations Manager,...
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Here is the Place for a Pipeline?
GARRY STANNUS An upturned garbage tin in scrub at the top of a hill in one of Launceston’s suburbs. Beside it a...
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Why Labor will lose the 2010 election
RICK PILKINGTON There are some similarities between the former Howard Government and the current Tasmanian Government. Both had Scott McLean’s support, suffered...
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The answer is the survival of Gunns and Forestry Tasmania
JOHN HAWKINS I have been asked why and to whom is it so important to allow the exclusion of forestry from all...
