Protest Australia's Ancient Forest Logging and Climate Change Eco-Hypocrisy
ACTION ALERT
PLEASE FORWARD WIDELY!
By Climate Ark & Forests.org, projects of Ecological Internet http://www.climateark.org/ and http://forests.org/
August 25, 2007
TAKE ACTION
Dramatic efforts required to stop the expansion of Tasmanian old-growth forest logging by construction of a massive new paper pulp mill by Gunns Ltd
http://www.climateark.org/alerts/send.asp?id=tasmania
Tasmania, Australia's woodchipping giant Gunns Ltd. is poised to be granted fast track approval by the Tasmanian government to build a massive chemical pulp mill in northern Tasmania. This forest-hungry pulp mill will be a disaster for Australia's ancient forests, climate, wildlife and future. If built, the US$1.4 billion project would need four million tonnes of logs a year. It would double Gunns' current rate of clearcutting in Tasmania's native forests. It will also dump thousands of tonnes of poisonous effluent into Bass Strait every day, threatening marine life, tourism and the fishing industry. For way too long Tasmania's ancient forests - some containing massive eucalyptus trees - have been clearcut to produce paper pulp, mostly for the Japanese market... Continued markets for paper pulp from ancient forest liquidation depend upon this disastrous pulp mill being forced through the Australian legal system... the impact of this massive pulp mill on Tasmania's ancient native forests, much less regional and global climate, have not been considered. Additionally Minister Turnbull has acknowledged there is insufficient data available to assess the impacts of 64,000 tonnes a day of poisonous waste being released into Bass Strait... (the) Gunns had already signed a contract with construction firm John Holland to start building the pulp mill "in the first week of September"... At a time when Australia's federal government is proposing funding ancient forest protection and conservation internationally as a measure to a combat climate change, it is hypocritical and repulsive that Australia continues industrially clearing its own native forests. Australia's ancient forests will still be logged, even clearcut, for throw away consumer products; even as the Australian government calls upon less developed and poor nations to protect their forests for the climate.
TAKE ACTION NOW:
http://www.climateark.org/alerts/send.asp?id=tasmania
DISCUSS ALERT: http://www.climateark.org/blog/2007/08/protest_australias_ancient_for.asp
http://freepage.twoday.net/search?q=Tasmania
http://freepage.twoday.net/search?q=old-growth
http://freepage.twoday.net/search?q=logging
PLEASE FORWARD WIDELY!
By Climate Ark & Forests.org, projects of Ecological Internet http://www.climateark.org/ and http://forests.org/
August 25, 2007
TAKE ACTION
Dramatic efforts required to stop the expansion of Tasmanian old-growth forest logging by construction of a massive new paper pulp mill by Gunns Ltd
http://www.climateark.org/alerts/send.asp?id=tasmania
Tasmania, Australia's woodchipping giant Gunns Ltd. is poised to be granted fast track approval by the Tasmanian government to build a massive chemical pulp mill in northern Tasmania. This forest-hungry pulp mill will be a disaster for Australia's ancient forests, climate, wildlife and future. If built, the US$1.4 billion project would need four million tonnes of logs a year. It would double Gunns' current rate of clearcutting in Tasmania's native forests. It will also dump thousands of tonnes of poisonous effluent into Bass Strait every day, threatening marine life, tourism and the fishing industry. For way too long Tasmania's ancient forests - some containing massive eucalyptus trees - have been clearcut to produce paper pulp, mostly for the Japanese market... Continued markets for paper pulp from ancient forest liquidation depend upon this disastrous pulp mill being forced through the Australian legal system... the impact of this massive pulp mill on Tasmania's ancient native forests, much less regional and global climate, have not been considered. Additionally Minister Turnbull has acknowledged there is insufficient data available to assess the impacts of 64,000 tonnes a day of poisonous waste being released into Bass Strait... (the) Gunns had already signed a contract with construction firm John Holland to start building the pulp mill "in the first week of September"... At a time when Australia's federal government is proposing funding ancient forest protection and conservation internationally as a measure to a combat climate change, it is hypocritical and repulsive that Australia continues industrially clearing its own native forests. Australia's ancient forests will still be logged, even clearcut, for throw away consumer products; even as the Australian government calls upon less developed and poor nations to protect their forests for the climate.
TAKE ACTION NOW:
http://www.climateark.org/alerts/send.asp?id=tasmania
DISCUSS ALERT: http://www.climateark.org/blog/2007/08/protest_australias_ancient_for.asp
http://freepage.twoday.net/search?q=Tasmania
http://freepage.twoday.net/search?q=old-growth
http://freepage.twoday.net/search?q=logging
rudkla - 25. Aug, 23:23
