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857Gunns rejects deal …
• Gunns has rejected the Lara Giddings State Government compo offer (max $23m), ABC Radio says … Report: http://www.abc.net.au/news/2011-09-05/tasmanian-timber-deal-in-a-chip-heap/2872168 Tasmanian timber deal...
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$11m loser Ta Ann the new Gunns: Brown
The reporting of yet another loss for Ta Ann despite massive public subsidies is raising the spectre of the company as the...
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Locked on! Misleading information and bias in The Examiner. TV ads. Gunns … but no Roses
Garry Stannus: Shortly after 7:00am this morning, outside the gate to Gunns’ Longreach property, a Hazell Brothers low loader, carrying a roller,...
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Tasmania’s Fox Scat Degradation Study. Eco-disaster fear …
[REFERENCE: “Eradicate” Issue 4 – WINTER 2011 a newsletter of the Fox Eradication Program DPIPWE Publication] What’s small, brown and can tell...
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Biofuels – the good, the bad and the ugly
Wood fuel The original biofuel, as used in the discovery of fire and a firm favourite for millions of years. Jargon: ‘Biomass’...
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Electric cars and Tasmania’s future
More than anything else cars represent our freedom and independence. We’ve become so dependent on them we’ll do almost anything to not...
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A toothless regulatory regime …
Genetically modified (GM) grass tolerant to the herbicide glyphosate, intended for use in golf courses, parks and athletic fields, has become a...
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Gunns moves the earth …
Gunns this morning took delivery of three large Komatsu earth moving machines. The first two arrived at 9:05, and the third at...
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Investigating stockpiles. Last Stand in Bunbury
Jenny Webber, Huon Valley Environment Centre: Tasmania’s ancient forests still falling, and being stockpiled in paddocks. Conservationists from Huon Valley Environment Centre...
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Timber folk urged to boycott Chickenfeed, Wotif … as Gunns in compo stand-off
WAR is being declared on discount chain Chickenfeed by growing numbers of angry timber workers and their supporters. The brother of North-West...
