Dr Chris Taylor has analysed the land areas burnt in the Tassie Peninsular Forcett fires. Dr Taylor also easily discredited claims of parks and unburnt bush being the cause of past Victorian mega-fires. His latest assessment of the Forcett fire shows only 7% of the fire was within conservation areas and the majority of the …
You might have read that world’s biggest and most notorious pulp and paper company, Asia Pulp & Paper (APP), state it will no longer log virgin rainforest.. Conservationists are rightly suspicious though. APP has entrusted the monitoring of their environmental pledge to a group called the Forest Trust, which appears to be a consultant contracted …
The Baillieu government has had the final kybosh put on its plan to use our Alpine National Park for cheap cattle agistment by its mates. The Federal Court on the 3rd January upheld the Federal Government’s decision that ordered cattle out of the National Park. It said Tony Burke’s decision was made according to law. …
Is it just coincidence that as new mining projects are approved in Longford and Seaspray and the moratorium on fracking is about to be lifted, Gina buys big stakes in the local mining companies, our local politicians open the newly upgraded West Sale Airport, the highways in and out of Longford to Melbourne are upgraded …
The long battle to stop a huge monstrosity planned for Mallacoota’s favourite beach, Bastion Point, was given the go-ahead by the Baillieu government in January. After three weeks of panel hearings in 2007, after 87% of submissions opposed the plan, after the then Planning Minister Justin Madden opposed the project, the Coalition government’s environment minister, …
The following update is an excert from an article in The Age, journalist is Jason Dowling. Surge of activity could see Victoria playing mine host Victoria could soon boast a new commercial iron ore mine amid a surge of mining activity. A combination of increased mineral prices and a supportive state government is driving a …
Minister Walsh last year blind-signed a law that made it illegal for the public to enjoy or use 340,000 ha of public land where logging was occuring. This is about half of all our public land available for logging in eastern Victoria! Yet we are told VicForests logs less than 1% of public forests every …
Victoria’s backlog of almost 500 listed species that currently have no legal protection, have finally seen a plan* to plan for their protection. Environment East Gippsland legally challenged the government’s neglect to write protection measures for most of the state’s rare species last June. It was settled in October 2013, but we’re still concerned that …
These are their new credentials from leaving a nasty stain on the environment. The paragraph on the left there is from their CEO’s intro in the Sustainability Report 2012 – just released. It’s chocka with lies and PR spin. They really are desperate for a bit of ‘social license’
This is a little complex but it basically shows that VicForests excel in stuffing up. Public forests are vested in VicForests for a number of years while it gets around to clearfelling them and then afterwards while it oversees the supposed regeneration of them. This can take years – and of course costs them many …
