1. If the senate allows the inclusion of ‘waste’ from native forest logging as a biomass fuel for biomass power in the RET, whole trees will be burnt for electricity in furnaces. The Australian Forest Products Association (AFPA) stated in the 2009 submission to the National Energy Policy Framework:‘wherever forests are managed under Commonwealth …
An environmental group illegally entered a forest to expose poor logging practices. Guess whose getting prosecuted? Thom Mitchell reports. With the investigation into the Goongerah Environment Centre now in its third week, it looks increasingly as though the Victorian government is shooting an inconvenient green messenger. The community environment centre, known as GECO for short, …
Groups like the Gippsland Environment Group and environmentalists like Ross Scott and health professionals like Dr. Jo McCubbin have been raising concerns about the mercury levels in fish in the Gippsland Lakes for many years. DELWP Media release A study to assess mercury levels in fish of the Gippsland Lakes will commence from tomorrow, followed …
VicForests has abandoned its sham attempt to gain a green tick for their logging practices under the International Forest Stewarship Council (FSC) label. It had a snowball’s hope in hell before but now the Federal Govt has decalred the Leadbeaters Possum critically endangered, it’s more like a snowflakes hope in hell.VicForests has said…”Following the listing …
It’s crazy! When the RET is supposed to be bringing emissions down, the Abbott government is prepared to increase them by burning the land’s greatest carbon stores – our forests – in electricity furnaces. This would have higher emissions than coal (per unit of energy produced – see illustration). It would take 200 years to …
Since the East Gippsland RFA was signed in February 1997, we have seen: licences issued for unlimited woodchip exports from the region a five year permanent blockade of the Goolengook heritage listed old growth forest. Hundreds of people were arrested. Politically and financially this was costly to the government and what remained was eventually protected. …
A plan to approve the burning of public native forests for electricity generation is back on the federal agenda. It could be passed on May 12 when parliament resumes. Planned changes to the Renewable Energy Target (RET) will include approval of forest furnace electricity to be defined as ‘renewable energy’. When the ALP were in …
VicForests has a chronic habit of illegal logging. This time it has been caught illegally logging protected rainforest near Hensleigh Creek on the western edge of the Errinundra Plateau. It has been investigated but logging continues and the forests need you to act. Email: lisa.neville@nullparliament.vic.gov.auCall: 03 9637 9654Tweet: @LisanevilleMP#LogOutOfRainforest #ProsecuteVicForests The cool temperate rainforest and …
In early April, VicForests decided to move from Healesville to a cheap prefab in Woori Yallock. They’ll take 30 staff there including some from Melbourne. They’ve been cutting corners and fat to save money for ages and this is the latest move – cheaper rent in Woori Yallock than Bourke St. CEO, Robert Green said …
It is not only hi-tech internationals like Microsoft, Google and Apple that are rorting the tax system to minimise declared profits and therefore pay less tax. Low-tech, state-owned native forest logging corporation, VicForests, has been at it for years. Since 2007 VicForests has posted total revenues of almost $1 billion raised from the sale of …
