BACK TO COURT
EEG is again suing VicForests which is planning to destroy critical habitat for threatened Greater Gliders near Bonang.
The destruction of Cabbage Tree Creek
By Peter Fisher | 1 February 2020. In late March 2022, the state government’s unstoppable new burning empire set fire to the surrounds of this tiny area of incredibly unique and ancient palms in East Gippsland. It is part of an unproven, counterproductive, baseless and destructive land management regime. Natural disaster and man-made destruction is …
Leadbeaters Possum case proves Australia’s enviro laws are a hoax
After a three year legal case to protect the critically endangered Leadbeaters Possum from logging, it was eventually shown that the commonwealth environment laws are ineffective.
FORESTS NOT GROWING BACK!
“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.,
Our bio-diversity in freefall – Vic Govt report
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 …
VIC GOVT PLAN WOULD DESTROY WILDLIFE TO PROTECT LOGGING
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 …
VicForests: What a scam!
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 …
Dirty tactics by VicForests?
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 …
VicForests opportunism at hazardous levels during bushfires
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.
Woodchip mill tries to secure Melbourne’s garbage to burn
UPDATE – April 2023 The Nippon-owned Maryvale packaging mill, is still struggling to get the minimum tonnages it needs but are again showing confidence that work will commence by end of this year. They also have competitors for the garbage, and Maryvale would have higher transport costs than the Dandenong project. Especially now they are …