Forest biomass = BIO-MASSACRE
Both major parties have chosen to bow down to industry and/or union pressure to allow the burning of public forests for power generation.
Logging oversight almost non-existent – report finds
On 15 March 2019 the Victorian government released a review of the regulation of logging in Victoria. The evidence is in and it is damning. Logging in Victoria is not effectively regulated.
Labor’s enviro policy to incinerate forests for power
Labor has said it would allow our forests to fuel furnaces for electricity generation if it gets in – as part of its proposed new environment legislation!
East coast Australia, the new Amazon
Deforestation on Victoria’s Matlock Plateau – incorrectly termed ‘sustainable logging’. Australia’s east coast has been compared to the Amazon as a “deforestation front”. WWF’s The Living Planet report, produced every second year for the past 20 years, says global populations of vertebrate species have declined 60% since 1970. But koala numbers have disappeared at a much faster rate – more than 20% ...
Threatened Greater Gliders killed for firewood
Stony Creek clearfelled Glider habitat in the Mt Alfred state forests NW of Bairnsdale.Our sister organisation, Gippsland Environment Group (GEG) has documented the clear failure of the Minister for the Environment Lily D’Ambrosio and her department (DELWP) to protect Greater Gliders and their critical habitat in the foothills north-west of Bairnsdale. This despite knowing of their presence for over a year. What ...
Why a waste incinerator for the woodchip mill is a stupid idea
EEG made the below submission to the EPA opposing the woodchip/paper mill’s proposed giant waste to energy incinerator.
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VicForests – major certification fail
VicForests has failed a forth time to gain the global forest environmental certification tick. We wonder what other motives they have to continue applying for acceptance when their practices don’t change.
EEG submission to RFA renewal plan
The RFA was designed and executed to favour unbridled and unaccountable clearfelling and burning of publicly owned native forests. Now governments want to renew this crime for another 2 decades.EEG has once again told the government why the RFA is really Sweet FA. As we and many others have over the last 20 ...