“You would have to describe VicForests as an outlaw organisation”
…the Victorian Government’s own data and shows a third of the areas logged don’t regenerate.,
This should be making news daily until the government takes real action – a third of all of Victoria’s terrestrial plants, birds, reptiles, amphibians, mammals, invertebrates and ecological communities are threatened with extinction. The Victorian Auditor General’s Office looks at various aspects of government departments, if they are performing well, using money effectively and carrying…
Continue Reading Our bio-diversity in freefall – Vic Govt report
Major planned changes to logging rules would protect industry but allow destruction of rare wildlife in the most brazen and contemptuous move we have seen.Can plans to give the logging bullies unregulated access to forests get any worse?! VicForests is facing constant legal battles as community groups are forced to sue them in courts (currently…
Continue Reading VIC GOVT PLAN WOULD DESTROY WILDLIFE TO PROTECT LOGGING
An investigative journalist working with Micheal West has exposed a neat little summary of figures in this story to show that VicForests is one of the state’s biggest welfare recipients, and doesn’t even need to meet any mutual obligations. Tasha May | Jun 9, 2021 | Michaelwest.com.au The trees were cut down, the profits of…
EEG is again suing VicForests which is planning to destroy critical habitat for threatened Greater Gliders near Bonang.
Forest campaigners accused of spiking roads. On 16th June 2021, about 5 weeks after our injunction in the Supreme Court forced VicForests’ logging crew out of important forests, the CEO of VicForests sent us an email notice. It asked us to discourage people from putting spikes in roads. It’s dangerous we are told. The photo…
As communities emerged from summer’s megafires, VicForests was conveniently contracted to remove ‘hazardous trees’ along East Gippsland’s roadsides. In reality, the term ‘looting’ comes to mind.
Continue Reading VicForests opportunism at hazardous levels during bushfires
UPDATE – October 2021 Highly toxic ash coming to a road near you? Australian Paper, now calling itself Opal (but still 100% owned by Japan’s Nippon) is pushing ahead with their EPA ‘tick and flick’ approval to build a massive industrial garbage incinerator on its current factory grounds in the Latrobe Valley. This latest atrocity…
Continue Reading Woodchip mill secures Melbourne’s garbage to burn
The below is the media release which Environment Justice Australia put out in early June 2019 after our VCAT case against the plans for the large industrial garbage incinerator in the Latrobe Valley. We managed to secure stricter conditions on the project and a new condition that they would not be burning native forest wood.…
Make a cuppa and settle in. This article is a brilliant (if lengthy) read. It gives a very clear and detailed summary of both the history of and more recent, logging disputes. It details the Federal Court win against VicForests, the poor economics, fibs, market responses and the underhanded lengths the industry and government go…
Continue Reading Will a tiny endangered possum now fell the logging industry?
