yes we can the mill stop it

>Press Releases
>Don Davey - Examiner 15/08/07
>
>15/08/07
>
>Don Davey questions why the pulp mill debate has not queried whether
>to
>continue with world deforestation (Letters 14/8/07). He notes that
>it is third
>world countries that are being affected by deforestation.
>
>Don Davey is correct in bringing this important consideration into
>the pulp mill
>debate. Tasmania’s sustainably managed forests are regenerated after
>harvesting and our forest area is increasing every year. The WWF
>found that
>Australia has an ecological surplus with our forests growing at 4.5
>times the
>rate that they are being harvested. Despite this, Australia has a
>trade deficit
>of over $2 billion dollars in forest and wood products, including
>paper.
>
>Included in the top 5 countries that we are importing from are
>Indonesia and
>Malaysia who have far less regulation than we do and where
>deforestation
>through illegal logging is rife. Deforestation in Indonesia has made
>it the third
>largest contributor to greenhouse gases in the world.
>
>Deforestation in third world countries is not a reason to stop the
>building of a
>pulp mill in Tasmania; it is precisely the reason why we should. We
>have a
>moral imperative to produce as much of our own needs as possible and
>stop
>relying on third world countries to produce forest and wood products
>for us.

      The above   printed in the(Forest Industries Website ) also went unanswered ! ( not by yours truly ) but the examiners refusal to print same.)

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        Now ! anybody reading same would conclude that by Tasmania building this mill , will deter others from doing so ! thus saving the world ( what a load of frogshit) ,  for a start the Tasmanian operation will have to meet the prices offered by third world operations ,which is an impossibility due to the stringent and cost bearing rules laid down by this govt ( assuming of course that they are adhered to) in order to compete, and if anyone believes that world buyers will only buy Tasmanian because they adhere to the rules !  well once again frogshit ! 
     
      As is and as has always been the buyer will always defer to the cheapest supplier without a care for the outcomes for the citizens of the supplier countries. ,  such is human nature !

                                d.d

There was always this anomoly with the Greens in that ,they appeared in the past to condemn mining with the same relish that they did with deforestation!
    Mining is confined usually to small area’s which may only be visually objectionable from the seat of a plane whilst flying over ! an annoying pimple ! but seldom a threat to humanity.           
    Deforestation is a cancer which is ever growing, uncontrollably ! but it need not be ! it only takes for the detractors to slow down and put things in perspective,like the ever increasing dangerous world weather patterns we have been experiencing the past 10 years or so, increasingly noticeable ! because of the speed and severity of the events now occuring.
   
    It is a fact that plant life are the lungs of the world and surely if we can halt what is happening BY “STOPPING JUST ONE PRACTICE” then, should we not be doing it ?
   
    I read a letter in the paper where some moron rabbits on about wood heaters , and cars and people smoking as contributing , SO ! he seems to be saying well they are doing it ! so why can,t i ?    “shit for brains !” 

      We are continually stuffing the environment in one way or another, however by far our most dangerous contribution is DEFORESTATION !
there are ALTERNATIVES and we HAVE to explore them NOW ! some science is saying it is already too late to reverse the trend, as the cancer is becoming more aggressive ! does that mean we stop treating it ? now ! wouldn,t that be stupid ?

                    d.d.