Mitsubishi sets lead - Latham and Howard should follow suite

[Willis, Katrina (Sen B. Brown)]

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Tuesday, 18 May 2004

Mitsubishi sets lead

Latham and Howard should follow suite

"The Mitsubishi Corporation's intention to end purchasing woodchips from
Tasmania's old growth or high conservation forests is laudable and
throws down a challenge to the federal Liberal and Labor parties to
catch up," Greens Senator Bob Brown said today.

"If Mark Latham and John Howard would match Mitsubishi in asserting that
'we do not condone unsustainable logging from old growth or high
conservation value forests in Tasmania' the nation would give them a
thumbs up at the ballot box," Senator Brown said.

"I have written to Mitsubishi to congratulate it and suggest a joint
inspectorate with The Wilderness Society to check that the logs
woodchipped for Mitsubishi are not coming from disputed forests,"
Senator Brown said.

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





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