What a Joke!
Tony Fletcher at 72 years of age and suffering from the burden of trying to spend his super after 24 years in parliament, finds himself a (!) of Gunns - please do our bidding for (!).

It raises a few questions:
1. Isn’t he just like us now - a mere visitor to parliament house - why does he get to walk down every corridor and got to whatever meeting he chooses? - he is retired - gone - out - a member of the public.
2. Once again, another cheap shot by Gunns to commandere what was once an astute memeber of the L.C. to be a (!).

Go back to your hobby farm Tony and study the word retirement - you use to deserve it.

If there’s going to be 122 log trucks a day travelling along Macquarie St in Hobart, what’s it going to be like nearer to the mill?

The mill represents additional truck movements meaning that the totals may be well above that figure.

We have been told that neither the increase in log truck traffic nor the odours from the mill and its contribution to microparticulates in the air of the Tamar valley, will have an adverse impact on tourism in Tasmania.

Tasmania’s MLC Greg Hall put it so well! ““If we say no to this assessment process, we say no to the pulp mill,” Mr Hall said, refuting the idea that the Upper House should decide its vote on issues such as good governance and due process as much as on the pulp mill. “That is the reality. Unpalatable as it may seem to some, we have to decide that now either we approve this process or reject the pulp mill.”

In Mr Hall’s inaugural address in May 2001,  he said, however: “As I have already said, small business is the economic mainstay of Rowallan and will also be a major contributor in driving Tasmania’s economic growth - not big business, not governments.”

And:  “Small business needs a regulation-friendly environment if it is to lead Tasmania’s economic growth. .”

and “Small business needs fair competition. Big business and government business enterprises should be prevented from using their market size, financial strength and regulatory power unfairly…”  [BR: but, Mr Hall, ‘fairness’ requires regulation.]

and
“Small to medium business will still have to deliver the majority of the growth and the public’s expectation of an increase in employment. Provided the Government and its officers remain at arm’s length, I am confident that the small business community in Tasmania will take up the challenge and deliver economic growth for all Tasmanians. Thank you. “

Ho hum!  How did Mr Hall come to eat his own words so quickly?

“Believe nothing merely because you have been told it. Do not believe what your teacher tells you merely out of respect for the teacher. But whatsoever, after due examination and analysis, you find to be kind, conducive to the good, the benefit, the welfare of all beings—that doctrine believe and cling to, and take it as your guide. ” Buddha

Lets call it as it is.

This is a DUMB Pulp Mill only supported by spin and self interest.

Albert Hall will be packed on Sunday.

Question: How can you tell when a politician is lying?

Answer: Their lips move!

Re #2
Your 122 trucks in Hobart lined up nose to tail (with 200mm space between) would stretch 2.1km.

At the mill the 763 trucks/day would cover 13km.

Over a year you could have about 225,000 trucks of 20 ton each stretching 3,800 km, and 80% of it is from native forest.

Music to the ears for some.
Begs a question from others?, Who will answer?

122 extra trucks a day down Macquarie St? Where I live, in the ‘no rail’ scenario (according to Gunns supplementary information) there will be up to an extra 488 (!!) truck movements a day, which begs the question - according to Paul Lennon as late as his ministerial address a couple of weeks ago ‘not one extra tree will be cut down to feed this pulp mill’ - where do all the extra log trucks come from then? Someone is telling porkies.
It don’t add up.

It is likely to be a relatively insignificant thing like extra log trucks using city thoroughfares which will sink this idiocy once and for all. Never mind about the storage of 50 tonnes of chlorine dioxide at the site, putting at risk the many thousands of people who live in the 17km radius attrition zone.

This entire saga has been a travesty of governance.

Government used public money to spruik the mill proposal, refused the public any support, left the public services out of the equation, forced the public to represent themselves to the RPDC and now is ‘outsourcing’ the decision to a consultant at our expense.

The sheer amount of money wasted in this dislocated process and the monstrous waste of public time is astonishing.

If the government sees its role as promoting a developer’s ideas, and it sees the logical decision maker as a private consultant, why do we need government at all in Tasmania?

They’ve shown us that under labor we can just leave everything to the private sector.

When do we get our taxes back?

To The Editor:

In all the furore surrounding debate over the proposal to site a pulp mill in the heavily populated Tamar Valley, there is a small but extremely important detail that has been largely overlooked in media coverage of the issue, and it is therefore not registering on the public’s radar.

In Gunns’ proposal, they plan to manufacture onsite, chlorine for the bleaching process, with excess to their requirements to be exported . At any one time there will be about 50 tonnes of chlorine gas stored onsite. This is a large amount of an extremely dangerous chemical in close proximity to thousands of residents, and the consequences of an accident are too horrific to contemplate. According to Dr Raverty, formerly of the Pulp Mill Assessment Panel, the zone within which everything would be destroyed in the event of an accident involving that storage facility, would be about a 17 km radius from the site. Anyone who believes that accidents do not happen should acquaint themselves with the details of the Bhopal and Sevesol disasters, amongst many others.

The public needs to know about this, but over the ‘jobs, jobs, jobs ’ mantra parroted by the supporters of the idea, it is the details like this that are not registering.

Clearly, the Tamar Valley is not the place for a mill like this, if only for this one reason. The risk is too great.

Susan McMahon
Tamar Valley (The Sacrifice Zone)

Come-on people - get with the program. This logtruck “story” is more smokescreen. I was surprised that the headline didnt say “Nuclear-powered logtrucks to be driven by Tasmanian Cricket Team past the new RHH for Princess Mary salute”. The fact is that traffic movements associated with the Mill have been known for donkeys - so why is it now frontpage news the day after the Bill gets its [long predicted] rubber stamp?

The answer is obvious - Gunns/the Government (same thing) having got their rubber stamp now have to move into stage 2 of the spin campaign - reassuring the public with lies about the Mill nasties. They have known for a long time that people are concerned about log trucks clogging the road and killing people. The answer -send them by ship! Gee - wouldnt that be a boon (and a rather fortuitious investment) if you had just recently purchased a cheap Tasmanian shipping line with bulk handling capacity!

Re 9
The power station included in the proposed pulpmill also appears to have slipped under the radar.

It is not a mini power station used just to power the mill, but a significant power station, greater in generating capacity than some of Tasmania’s hydro powered stations.

It will supply an average production of at least 60 Megawatts of surplus electricity for sale into the Tasmanian Electricity Grid. The Trevallyn power station generates 80 Mw.

Its wood fired furnaces will burn at least 60 tons of wood per hour, compared to approximately 20 tons per hour being burned in Launcestons 8000 wood heaters at peak winter consumption.

Interesting comment, Lily ! have you tried sending to the Examiner ,Mercury and Advocate , i,d do it myself ! however they don,t want to know me at present! look forward to our next coffee ?   
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            d.d.

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