Mon 07 Jul, 2008 4:40 pm
Mon 07 Jul, 2008 6:27 pm
tasadam wrote:Yes, I'm sure there's much to learn there, when time permits.
Regardless of the outcome, there will always be people that drink coffee, and there will always be people that use paper.
I'm one of both.
Doesn't stop me from having views on things like the pulp mill though.
Mon 07 Jul, 2008 8:21 pm
Mon 07 Jul, 2008 10:04 pm
walkinTas wrote:tasadam wrote:People will always use paper, and people will always drink coffee. .
Mon 07 Jul, 2008 10:21 pm
Mon 07 Jul, 2008 11:13 pm
taswaterfalls.com wrote: I sit here surrounded by paper, this room is wall to wall bookshelves, my desk is covered in bills, I have a paper bag full of resistors and capacitors here for an amp Im working on...but looking at it all it is quite conceivable that viable alternatives will pop up down the track.
Tue 08 Jul, 2008 12:09 am
Tue 08 Jul, 2008 6:57 pm
Sun 13 Jul, 2008 11:18 am
Fortunately this state has also managed to reserve or protect a lot (comparatively a lot - compare to other states) of forests. To put it in perspective, 38.2% of land in Tasmania is private property, 21% is National Parks, Conservation Areas cover an additional 8%, Forest reserves, Nature reserves, and nature recreation areas make up about 3.5% and State Forests cover 19.2% (ABS, May 2003).
Fri 31 Oct, 2008 7:14 am
From here"There will be some period of time before financial markets stabilise. In this environment, the company will be maintaining the project in a position to proceed until funding arrangements are complete."
Mr Gay rejected suggestions the company should set its own deadline by which the project should live or die. "This company will continue the process as long as it takes," Mr Gay said.
Recently the company told the West Tamar Council that it could be December 2009 before the board approved the project.
Premier David Bartlett has vowed to withdraw state support for the project if substantial construction does not begin by November 30.
Tasmanians Against a Pulp Mill spokesman Bob McMahon, who attended the meeting, said Mr Gay's statement meant there would be no pulp mill "not now, not ever".
Fri 31 Oct, 2008 8:42 am
Fri 31 Oct, 2008 8:55 am
Singe wrote:Gunns' have changed their tune somewhat since the abandonment of the RPDC assessment and passing of the Pulp Mill Assessment Bill.
Mon 03 Nov, 2008 10:14 am
"I mean, the pulp mill, a $2 billion-plus project, has had to make its way through the planning approval process.
"It's a very big project by world terms, not just Tasmanian.
"It'll be a sad day for Tasmania if a project like that can't proceed."
In the interview, Mr Lennon said Flanagan had opposed projects that had given Tasmania a "good, bright future", including Basslink, industrial-scale wind farms and the Tamar Valley pulp mill.
He said Flanagan's opposition to the pulp mill was driven by a desire to stop the timber industry by any means possible.
Flanagan yesterday rejected Mr Lennon's claims.
"Mr Lennon has always maintained a loose connection with the truth," he said.
On Thursday Gunns executive chairman John Gay told the firm's annual meeting he did not expect all Tamar Valley landowners to agree to easement acquisition along the 30km section of the East Tamar.
But he said he was surprised at the number who had expressed support.
Australian Story
8pm – 8.30pm ABC1
Monday 3 November 2008
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Controversial author Richard Flanagan is making headlines again - this time for his art rather than his contentious stance against Tasmania's forest industry.
Genre: Documentary
Year: 2008
Other: Closed Captions
Duration: 30 mins
In a recorded interview for an ABC Australian Story profile on Mr Flanagan, airing tomorrow night, Mr Lennon was scathing of the award-winning author's opposition to "progress" in Tasmania.
"Many of the projects that we progressed in Tasmania, Richard opposed," Mr Lennon told Australian Story.
It flared again at the weekend, after reports that Mr Lennon had accused Flanagan of being anti-progress in an ABC Australian Story, airing tonight.
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