Comments on: Gunns, Ltd Woodchipping Old Growth Forests

By: anthony simmons

anthony simmons — Thu, 24 Dec 2009 03:50:13 +0000

It almost seems that the Tassie Government are in bed with Gunns Ltd as this company is getting away with environmental rape and destruction.

No company should be above the law and if the local Government cannot make them (Gunns Ltd) accountable then surely Mr beds are burning is in a position to act in the best interest of the nation.
This is a clear example of the breakdown of state and Federal responsibilities which needs fixing up.

In 2008 1 spent $4,500 on a holiday to Tassie to see the wilderness, not to see forests being destroyed or the ugly mills of Gunns.
I am committed to seeing that my great grand children can do the same as I did and not go to a museum in hobart to see the great forests of yesteryear.

By: V

Wed, 29 Jul 2009 17:19:44 +0000

How long will it take for the people who run Gunns in Tasmania to realise they are only destroying themselves? It is 200 years of colonisation that is still continuing. The mental formations are all negative.

By: Paul Martin.

Paul Martin. — Fri, 01 Jun 2007 14:18:10 +0000

All Australians should protest vigorously to the Federal Government about any logging of native forests in Tasmania. And logging old grouth forests for paper pulp must be banned all over the country. This is a disgusting state of affairs. The forests will dissappear,
the land will degrade and our future populations will wonder why we let them cut the trees down for PULP !! STOP THIS DESTRUCTION NOW !

By: Shirley Glen

Shirley Glen — Sun, 27 May 2007 02:39:53 +0000

I just found this site and followed it through thinking I was looking at some archives from 2005, then I got to the comment by Jim R, this month, May 2007! How heartening it is to hear that people from somewhere else will come down to Tasmania and help us. Gunns are the biggest landowners here and they think they are the only ones who count. Lennon is helping them in that belief, but he will find out at the next election that John Gay only has one vote like the rest of us, no matter how much of Tasmania he owns. But the next election is 3 years away and we need help now. The threat of the pulp mill in our midst is just horrifying, we have been fighting the corruption allowing – no, enabling – it, with all we have, and I don’t doubt we will stop it but we need numbers. There are only 500,000 odd people in Tas. and some of them are against us! But we are not the noisy minority by a long shot. I live 9kms from the proposed site . This valley is too beautiful to lose! (And now Gunns are buying up on the mainland, too.)

By: Jim R

Jim R — Mon, 21 May 2007 07:49:06 +0000

I dont know how anyone could defend these Gunns arseholes.There are plenty of other ways to make money .If shit is going to hit the fan I am coming down to Tasmania along with thousands others I am sure,and we will fight this on the ground.

By: the jogger in the park with the big headphones and sad look on his face

the jogger in the park with the big headphones and sad look on his face — Wed, 04 Apr 2007 10:28:34 +0000

the local paper (www.themercury.com.au) has articles everyday in it about the pulp mill. you can also reply to the articles.
as a tasmanian, i am glad that i live in the south of the state so that i wont have to look at the pulp mill or smell its toxic fumes.
i feel for residents if launceston and the tamar valley.
this project has bullshit written all over it.
the premier only got in on the last election on the basis that this pulp mill would be the cleanest in the world.
shortly after the election, he heavys the planning commission, which falls apart, only to change the planning legislation to suit him to get the mill through. and now the facts are coming out that this mill is first of all in the wrong location, and also breaks every environmental guideline in the book.
this is no longer a ‘green’ issue. it has moved far beyond that realm.
tasmanian politics and integrity is at stake.
if it comes in, i am seriously out of here.
its the dumbest thing i have heard in a long time. its so 18th century.
the adage that ‘my fathers father was a logger, my father is a logger, and therefore i should be a logger’ is complete bullshit.
tasmania has the lowest rate of year 12 (basic level of education) graduation in the country.
this is clearly why it needs so many unskilled jobs such as logging and pulp mills, and this is clearly where paul lennons votes are coming from.
stand up people.

By: John Newell

John Newell — Mon, 02 Apr 2007 10:57:43 +0000

I am writing a submission to the Canadian government and in particular, the Auditor General about the same thing. What is different about this submission is that I’m using the language of business to prove my points: Generally Accepted Accounting Principles.

Business will never get the message without it being communicated in a language it understands.

While the poisoning of species is not permissable in Canada, clear cutting itself achieves the same thing – the wildlife is wiped out. In effect, poisoning is likely touteds as more humane than slow starvation.

Anyway, I hope my submission will be able to help.

Please e-mail me back so you can receive a copy.