Both major parties have chosen to bow down to industry and/or union pressure to allow the burning of public forests for power generation.
EEG is challenging an EPA approval for a massive rubbish incinerator as a dirty solution to Victoria’s mounting waste problem.
On 15 March 2019 the Victorian government released a review of the regulation of logging in Victoria. The evidence is in and it is damning. Logging in Victoria is not effectively regulated.
Continue Reading Logging oversight almost non-existent – report finds
2019 Easter Forest Camp will be a DIY affair. Come along and rub-shoulder with friendly fellow forest nerds.
The lack of credible science, the use of flawed data and the systemic violation of environmental laws is clearly DELWP’s and VicForests’ weaknesses in the public’s eye. Their strategy to continue appeasing the logging industry for another 20 years is already a crooked process for a devious and destructive outcome.
In order to appear scientifically credible DELWP held a public session at the Royal Society to present its intended ongoing clearfelling of public forests for another 20 years at least.
Continue Reading Report on the ‘thoroughly modern’ RFA presentation
Labor has said it would allow our forests to fuel furnaces for electricity generation if it gets in – as part of its proposed new environment legislation!
Continue Reading Labor’s enviro policy to incinerate forests for power
This illustrated guide explains how East Gippsland’s forests were ‘agreed’; to be handed to the export woodchip industry for 20 long years back in 1997. It was a big farce then, as its plan for renewing it is now.
An informative illustrated guide to the many values of mature trees with hollows.
Continue Reading An illustrated guide to the value of a hollow tree
The logging industry’s own report shows most rural voters dislike logging.
