Negotiations responding to the crisis in the native forest logging industry today collapsed due to the unwillingness of Forest Industry Association of Tasmania and the old growth sawmilling sector to move itself onto a sustainable footing and no longer log World Heritage-verified forests. Changes in the market place over the last five years have demonstrated …
More good news! The Tassie forest negotiations have today collapsed! Why is this GOOD news? Because it had become so watered down from the original agreed points, it was looking like another industry free-for-all in old growth and HCV forests with millions $ offered to them as well. The Feds wanted to use this as …
“Nippon Paper Industries expected to decide the ongoing viability of the mill by the end of the year.”This could be the end of logging in the entire SE of Australia! Without woodchips, it wouldn’t be viable. It’s the woodchipping sales that VicForests relies on. By golly they must be in a cold sweat. Eden woodchip …
In 1978-79 the Fisheries and Wildlife Division of Arthur Rylah Institute carried out a study into heavy metals in the biota and sediment of the Gippsland Lakes. The research was published in 1980. They found that the concentrations of mercury in the sediment of the lakes had increased to the point where lakes King and …
The financial situation of the SE NSW and E Gippsland woodchipping industry has recently seen some interesting changes: 1. Jobs cut by 30% at the Eden chipmill, coming on top of an earlier round of redundancies this year. A drop from 72 down to 46 jobs.2. Reduced number of woodchip ships taking loads out from …
“The number of threatened species has nearly tripled in the last twenty years” Our national environment laws have never been particularly strong. While the Business Council of Australia has protested that these laws are too onerous, the big picture tells a far different story. The five-yearly State of the Environment Report clearly shows that we …
After about 140 years of logging almost anything in its sights, the last few years has seen it looking down its own barrel. Much to millions of Australian’s delight, it finally admitted defeat recently and declared insolvency. Gunns history Gunns started as a small Launceston sawmilling business in 1875. By 1986 it was a publicly …
The Nippon owned pulp and paper plant at Maryvale, Australian Paper, recently announced (10th October) a new recycled paper plant to be built on their LaTrobe Valley site. However it’s been silent about getting out of native forests as a result. Production is expected to start in early 2014, so it won’t be in time …
VicForests is at it again and the dust has barely settled on the Brown Mountain legal case. While the Gliders and Potoroos remain in an uneasy limbo while there’s a ceasefire, other habitat of rare wildlife is copping wholesale destruction elsewhere. So another court case is brewing. This time the rare species of the far …
The Stockman Project is located in the Victorian Alps, 470km by road north-east of Melbourne and 60km by road north east of Omeo. The project contains two copper-zinc-lead-silver-gold rich deposits, called Wilga and Currawong. Wilga was discovered in 1978 and Currawong in 1979. Denehurst mined the copper rich core of Wilga deposit from 1992 to …
