Increased logging dressed up as ‘bushfire mitigation’?
This is something to watch. In a Productivity Commission draft report cited in early January 2015, the suggestion was that more needs to be spent on bushfire mitigation exercises (to save on disaster relief and recovery). Sounds reasonable? But this suggested $200M mixed with the lobbying influence of the Australian Forest products Association (AFPA), and …
Woodchip licences end in East Gippsland
In April last year NIPPON announced it would not renew the woodchip licences after December 2014. VicForests has not been able to find another customer for its booty. Nippon owns the chipmill and export facilities at Eden in NSW where millions of tonnes of EG forests have been shredded and shipped for over 40 years. …
Did Australian Aboriginals burn the bush as we are told?
Fuel reduction and ecological burning etc. are based on the assumption that all Aboriginal people undertook fire-stick farming. Joel Wright, traditional owner in southwest Victoria, is an indigenous language, culture and history researcher. He finds no evidence of wide-scale burning in Aboriginal language and culture, but does find other explanations for the history of aboriginal …
VicForests extends moratorium on logging in East Gippsland owl habitat
State-owned timber company VicForests has agreed to extend its moratorium on logging in certain areas of East Gippsland. An environment group is suing the timber company and the Victorian Government, over the logging of old-growth forest that is home to endangered owls. After further legal wrangling, VicForests has agreed to halt any logging of the …
A regulator’s climate nightmare: carbon bubbles and market crashes
LIMA: The carbon bubble is no longer a concept promoted by environmental types, or a warning from progressive analysts in the mainstream investment banks. It is now officially recognized as a potential systemic risk to global financial markets. The Bank of England has revealed that it will broaden its investigation into “unburnable carbon” – and …
Brown Mt. Expert Witness Reports
> Aquatic Biological Survey Report by Robert B McCormack 7 December 2009 > Expert Witness Report for the Spotted-tailed Quoll Dasyurus maculates by Dr Chris Belcher December 2009 > Report on Sooty Owls and Powerful Owls for the Supreme Court proceeding number 8547 of 2009 – Environment East Gippsland v Vicforests by Rohan Bilney December …
EEG. v. VicForests Affidavits
Affidavits filed by the Plaintiff > Affidavit of Vanessa Elizabeth Bleyer 24 August 2009 > Affidavit of Andrew Stephen Lincoln 24 August 2009 > Affidavit of Eliza Marie Poole 24 August 2009 > Affidavit of Jill Redwood 28 August 2009 > Second Affidavit of Vanessa Elizabeth Bleyer 31 August 2009 > Third Affidavit of Vanessa …
Brown Mt. Judgements
Win for forests in Supreme Court In a landmark decision today, 11 August 2010, the Supreme Court has found that the government has a responsibility to look for and protect endangered wildlife before logging in the contentious Brown Mountain forests of East Gippsland. EEG v VicForests Judgment 14 September 2010 To view the judgement > …