A report from the Department of Environment has revealed VicForests’ contractors needlessly destroyed rainforest canopy in East Gippsland The department visited the area last month to investigate claims VicForests had illegally logged rainforest on the Erindurra Plateau. The report, released by the Government on Friday, reveals the investigators were unable to conduct a proper physical …
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 …
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 …
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 …
Paper profits for political appearances VicForests Annual Report for 2014 is now available here and they are claiming a profit of $3.4 million this year, but this claimed profit is a mirage, created for political reasons. $2.6m seems to have been generated (on paper at least) by re-valuing “forestry assets”, see Note 3c, p.42 Another $1.1m …
In 2013-14 MyEnvironment requested an IBAC review of Victorian Auditor General’s Office audit ‘Managing Victoria’s Native Forest Timber Resources’ on the following grounds: In 2013, the Victorian Auditor General’s Office made the following statement: “ VicForests does not receive any government subsidies ” yet this paper shows that VicForests receives annual subsidies of approximately …
A wonderful new website designed to look behind the monster that VicForests really is, has just been launched! Enjoy! http://www.vicforests.net/
Will Napthine hand VicForests $18M from our pockets next year to log East Gippy forests? This is despite their being no market for the bulk of the trees they cut down. The East Gippsland community could do so much more with that money. It could kick start more useful and more healthy, growing sectors – …
VicForests turns 10 today. In that time it has received $25million in grants and subsidies to help it haul $300million worth of free logs from public forest which it still owes Victorians $74million in unpaid dividends for. This debt to the public could build 10 new schools, pay for 96 additional teachers or deploy five …
VicForests has a snowball’s hope in hell of gaining the green tick of approval from the Forest Stewardship Council (FSC), an international wood certification body. It had a preliminary audit carried out on its logging management and it failed dismally. This didn’t stop it from claiming in a media release that the auditors recognised the …
