Gunns hopes of Prime Ministerial award dashed

[Willis, Katrina (Sen B. Brown)]

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Thursday, 6 May 2004


Gunns hopes of Prime Ministerial award dashed


Appalling forest destruction catches up with nationally condemned
woodchip corporation


Gunns Pty Ltd, the world's biggest hardwood woodchipper, has been
stripped of its hoped-for Banksia award to be announced by Prime
Minister Howard on 5 June, World Environment Day.

Last month, Gunns announced it was a finalist. Today it announced it had
flunked (see Gunn's media release).

"This company's plan fell on its own word," Greens Senator Bob Brown
said in Canberra today. 

"It was CEO John Gay's own boast on Channel Nine that Gunns poisons
protected animals in the Tasmanian forests which revolted the award
judges."

The corporation's worldwide reputation as an environmental dinosaur has
damaged Tasmania enormously. It is some little justice that the
overreach of hypocrisy, seeking environmental awards, has brought it
undone.

The award judges have saved the Prime Minister from a huge
embarrassment, even though he has personally condoned Gunns' destruction
of the forests and their native wildlife.

See Channel Nine transcript overleaf.

More information: Katrina Willis 02 6277 3170 or 0419 704 095
 





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