Public Safety’ Zones and are basically a legal force-field inside which anyone can be arrested for carrying out an activity – like bushwalking or camping – or witnessing logging. They cover large areas of public land that belong to you and I. These huge rectangular zones are arbitrarily plonked on the map where logging is …
In order to maintain its standing with certain beef farmers over the Alpine National Parks grazing issue, the Baillieu government took its legal challenge to the Federal Court in early August – at great cost to you and I. Victoria’s current conservative coalition wants to overturn a decision by federal Environment Minister Tony Burke that …
AFTER a 17-month battle with the Baillieu government, the environment movement has received a key document that underpinned the controversial decision to return cattle to the Alpine National Park. But the document, it turns out, is rather curious. The released academic paper – one of two scientific reviews the government relied on to conclude that …
It reads like a silly Monty Python sketch, but this absurdity is real. On 6th August the Department of Sustainability and Environment was to be in court prosecuting VicForests for criminally logging rainforests at Murrungowar in East Gippsland. In a curious paradox, EEG served papers on DSE for not adhering to rainforest protection laws just …
Many of our supporters who recently wrote to Planet Ark about its support of logging native forests http://environmentaledge.com.au/wood/ received a fairly patronizing response. Planet Ark has been sucked in to the logging lobby groups’ spin and regurgitated this back at us. It was unfortunate they never asked for a briefing from green groups or forest …
VicForests wiped out 8 ha of protected rainforest some time ago. In a first, the Department of Sustainability and Environment prosecuted them. However, after many adjournments of the case, on August 6th (2012) a behind the scenes deal was done instead. After such a heinous crime, we were imagining VicForests being marched off in leg …
A controversial mine site is seeking government approval from the Baillieu government to reopen at Benambra, north of Swifts Creek in East Gippsland. The original Benambra mine was operated by Denehurst – and now the connections appear – in which our Premier, Ted Baillieu was a shareholder. Click here for the news story. The main …
A BOGUS quote attributed to a major university by a key environment group is “no problem”, the university says. Planet Ark had released a quote claiming logging products are carbon-friendly to build with, complete with a reference to an RMIT study. But the quote: “Substituting wood products from well managed forests and plantations for carbon …
More news has surfaced regarding Planet Ark turning Judas. They accepted $700,000 from the logging industry group Forest Wood Products Australia and then began running their ad campaign for them.Founders of Planet Ark John Dee and Pat Cash sold the company/charity to new owners some time ago. They are now so disgusted by this capitulation …
THE Baillieu government will argue the Commonwealth acted outside its jurisdiction when it blocked a controversial cattle grazing trial in the Alpine National Park in a long-awaited court challenge. The state government is seeking to overturn a decision by federal Environment Minister Tony Burke that the trial is ”clearly unacceptable” under national environment laws due …
