Tasmanian Times
Sciences
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Tough roads ahead
BILLY MacTOLD While some rub hands in eager anticipation of pushing roads into wilderness areas, there is much angst for others about...
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Biccies for the pollies
PETER QUEALY, Florentine Protection Society Parliamentarians given Florentine Biscuits and information so they can find out more about the value of the...
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Consumers blind to toxic dangers at greengrocer
via BRENDA ROSSER, Kelly Burke Consumer Affairs Reporter, July 3, 2009, http://www.smh.com.au/national/consumers-blind-to-toxic-dangers-at-greengrocer-20090702-d6k6.html FRUIT and vegetables sold in NSW regularly exceed the permitted...
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GM lobby to flood the world: Why?
JEN BOON Foods containing GMO have not been “independently proven over the long term” to have no adverse health impacts. Why are...
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A disaster in waiting
HORRIFIED OBSERVER Here is a story from Alaska…this will be repeated x 100 magnitude on Macquarie Island. They never learn. On Macquarie...
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The Drax trial
via JON SUMBY Drax trial: Closing statement from the defence The trial of 22 climate change activists accused of hijacking a coal...
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Limiting the fall of prices
HAKAN EKSTROM The black liquor tax credit in the US has limited the fall of wood chip and pulpwood prices in the...
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Are we really ‘Roundup Ready’?
NEO There have been concerns about the toxicity of the breakdown products of Glyphosate such as formalin and AMPA. It should be...
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Pulp mill refuses to die
MATTHEW DENHOLM, Australian THE scandal, controversy and speculation surrounding Gunns’ pulp mill has become a part of life in Tasmania. There are...
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The result would be a disaster for all Tasmanians
JOHN LAWRENCE It didn’t take long for Gunns’ new CEO Greg L’Estrange to find himself in deep water.FEA have clearly been vulnerable...
