Tasmanian Times
Forestry
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Cutting jobs, not creating them
Rick Pilkington Check Gunns website if you don’t believe me. This was all widely reported in the press last year. Why does...
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Open Letter from Concerned Scientists on the Tarkine Road and the Tasmanian Devil
Concerned Scientists ON Monday 16 February 2009, Dr Colette Harmsen, a Tasmanian veterinarian addressed a public meeting of the Waratah-Wynyard Council on...
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Spiking …
Michelle Paine Mercury ANTI-whaling activist Paul Watson has admitted spiking trees in Canada and standing with Peter Garrett in protests. Read more...
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Emissions soaked up by extra forest growth
Guardian Trees across the tropics are getting bigger and offering unexpected help in the fight against climate change, scientists have discovered. Read...
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Bartlett’s plan: Here we go again …
Peter Henning WELL, here we go again. Watch your backs, residents of the Tamar Valley. New legislation for major projects, “especially those...
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The way Preolenna was …
Evelyn DeVito Preolenna was a productive farming community. It produced potatoes including the seed potato crop for Australia, milk, beef and other...
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Chlorine dioxide at Mackenzie pulp mill forces evacuation
Mary Frances Hill Vancouver Sun A chlorine dioxide leak at a Mackenzie pulp mill recently taken over by the provincial government to...
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Legal blitz questioned
Warrick Jordan Ula Majewski, an activist involved in December’s peaceful direct action at Gunns Limited Triabunna woodchip mill, has received correspondence from...
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Loss of carbon sinks
Simon Branigan Environment Tasmania MR Tasmania’s peak environment body is pushing for native forest biomass to be scrapped from acceptance as a...
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Time for a new way (2)
Peter Henning “Freedom is actually the reason that men live together in political organizations at all. Without it, political life as such...
