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16/10/2010
HATING forestry and pulp giant
Gunns Limited has long been a favourite pastime for many Tasmanians, as any observer of car bumper stickers knows.
"Gunns -- dangerous in the wrong hands," reads one. "I no longer shop at
Gunns," proclaims ...
2/7/2009
This is by no means a new battle: in fact, Tasmanian industrial foresters and environmentalists have been fighting over the issue of clearcutting the island’s forests for decades. The battle--some would probably prefer 'war'--is over nothing less ...
16/8/2008
It’s easy to get confused about forests and climate change. Deforestation and
forest degradation contribute to around 20% of global greenhouse gas emissions,
second only to the burning of fossil fuels to produce energy. Climate scientists ...
22/5/2008
PLANS for Tasmania's controversial $2 billion pulp mill are dead, say the
Greens, following reports the ANZ Bank will pull out of funding the project.
ANZ said yesterday it had not made a decision on whether to finance the Tamar ...
23/11/2007
On an early summer's morning in northern Tasmania, the Tamar valley looks
like an Australian slice of Tuscany. There are groves of walnut trees beside
white-barked eucalyptus, a lavender farm, apricot orchards and small fields of ...
23/11/2007
For Chris Landon-Lane and his Tamar Valley neighbors on Australia's Tasmania
island, one issue matters most in tomorrow's election: ``The environment is the
main topic of conversation as you walk down the street or sit at the dinner ...
4/10/2007
Australia approved
Gunns Ltd.'s A$2 billion ($1.8 billion) pulp mill in
Tasmania, after federal Environment Minister Malcolm Turnbull set aside
opposition from environmentalists.
Gunns stock had the biggest gain in nine
years. ...
26/8/2007
Federal Environment Minister Malcolm Turnbull found himself in hostile
territory today as he set about to debate his opposition counterpart Peter
Garrett at the Great Climate Change Debate in Brisbane.
It was clear from the ...
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